Opera does come off to me as a bad door-to-door salesman or politician would, coming around regularly with something ‘new and improved’ that has the same old glaring problems in it. And the lack of out-of-the-box autoupdate, autocomplete, and inline-spellchecking is a MAJOR problem for me.

Autoupdate alone, for example, is the main reason I don’t and won’t recommend Opera as an alternative to Firefox and IE 7. A product that can self-update is really a bare minimum these days for most all products. An autoupdate feature makes it easy for anyone using a program with that feature to be as up-to-date and secure as possible.

I have a family member who I got to use Firefox after the security scare with IE 6 (one of the few Homeland Security scares worth using). I was talking about the world of alternative browsers and Opera came up, so they wanted to try that out. Firefox autoupdates so they have no problems with that. Opera, on the other hand, first came down to talking about why it doesn’t update ‘like Firefox’, ‘like Adobe Reader’, or ‘like Microsoft update’ and now when will I update it being as they won’t. I already cringe at updating their computer from 9.23 to 9.5.

Opera has a great product. Opera on Wii is a smash success and Opera Mini will be a success in its own right (especially going up against the bloated and flawed iPhone). Opera on desktop is within a hair’s breath of making that same sale, but without following what Sid has said, it won’t bridge that gap completely with me and others like me who would give it that chance.

Problems .

1. “Server Certificate Expired” popup. No icon labels and when I click either button it does not access the site and eventually says “Could not connect to remote server”

2. This site looks **** now http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/index.html

Really, the programmers and engineers at Opera should get their acts together and focus on some low and boring stuff. These guys remind me of my American politicians, talking about flag burning amendment while bridges collapse.

The old shortcuts are too hardwired on my brain to have to learn them all over again. I changed my conf back to use Ctrl+N to open a new tab. THAT hardwired. I understand that interbrowser compatibility is important for people to make the jump to this ship, but I don’t think that should be acomplished by ******** the faithful.

how we are suposed to use only tools that work - http://operawiki.info/WebDevToolbar ?

somebody wasnt thinking at ALL

why, WHY youve added getElementsByClass? all js libraries use this very same name to do the very same thing. conflicts will arise, and it is opera to blame. js lib writers will not remove their functions just because .5%marketshare opera decided to blow things up. these things will not work ok in opera

they’ve added an INTERFACE option, to manage single key shortcuts.. instead of providing one small text file, another keyboard setup.. it is hopeless. it an example of using very, very big hammer to nail a very very smal nail. whoever decided to do it that way simply wasted lots and lots of manhours to achieve something that 5yo wouldve done in 5 minutes.

and btw no, clicking that ‘enable one key shortcuts’ does not back to an old set of keys. and new key layout is simply sh..

there is still no oncontextmenu support, but instead some quite useless things from css3 were thrown in, that nobody will use. but oncontextmenu is USED now and on these pages opera is a complete no go.

no, thanks, ff3 will do

Only a handful of techies really understand users; from his suggestions, Sid seems one of them. Opera has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to deliver great software, but work remains on the usability front.

Hope it clarified…

Also from the article: The “Save your password” dialog box does not stop the page from loading behind it. That way you can verify that the username and password you entered works before actually saving it. What a great feature!
It really is a great feature.

http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/03/cybernotes-exclusive-opera-95-features-video/