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Opera Releases "Bork" Edition

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 14, 2003 @01:25AM from the something-in-the-meatballs dept.

David Arnesen writes "Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely providing them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork! Here you can find the press release and download link!"

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Re:Childish by qoncept · 2003-02-14 02:13 · Score: 0, Troll

I think that attitude is kind of the same of many of its users.
Flamebait? Why the hell would anyone EVER use this piece of trash? Opera doesn't display ANYTHING properly, AND THEY CHARGE FOR IT?!
If you're THAT intent on not using Microsoft products, at least use Mozilla.

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Re:oh, the crazy Swedes by kasperd · 2003-02-14 02:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Last time I heard the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show, it did not at all sound like he spoke Swedish. And the language used on those Opera screenshots is not Swedish either.

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MSN changed their page to WORK with opera by ywwg · 2003-02-14 06:14 · Score: 0, Troll

What a bunch of morons you people are. MSN put in those 30 pixel "errors" to work around a bug in opera version 6. Version 7 doesn't contain the bug, and MS hasn't yet added special detection for opera six versus seven. This isn't "targetting" or trying to break a page for opera, they were doing the best they could to work around its bugs