Rijk - Is it hard to love Opera?

Is it hard to love Opera?

Thursday, February 2, 2006 10:03:45 AM

People switch browsers all the time, in all directions. But sometimes they find it hard to write enthousiastically about Opera, because the Firefox fanboys start harassing them:

Evidently the only good things that are allowed to be said have to be about Firefox, and nothing bad can be said about Firefox, since that's the browser they use and if you say anything negative about it and/or say something else is better or god forbid that you think it's the greatest in the world they take it personally.

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BTW, I'm aware there are Opera fanboys as well. They mostly seem to harass Firefox fans in the my.opera forums though, not on blogs around the world (except Asa's).

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Comments

Eddieelcid73 # Thursday, February 2, 2006 2:29:25 PM

I don't think so!

If fact- I just posted how much I love it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/02/01/521917.aspx

I've noticed several others posting similar.

Anonymous # Thursday, February 2, 2006 7:28:02 PM

Raven writes: I like opera and I use it as well as Firefox and IE because I am a web developer. But I can't make software oriented mainly to Opera because it interpretes Javascript different than other browsers (sometimes it cause some errors in Opera), so I have to write and test my software mainly for Firefox and then IE.

olli # Friday, February 3, 2006 12:21:13 AM

elcid73? Are you sure? I spend alot of time on different forums and it's not rare I stumble over stuff like this:

http://itpro.no/supportforum.php?s=a9c22711dfb375b196ad2e533c44f9dd&showtopic=33204

Opera user asking about help with problem (norwegian)..
First reply: Firefox ;-)

Anonymous # Tuesday, February 7, 2006 3:38:35 AM

Phil Ringnalda writes: Well, Asa's, and Goodger's. Because what more could you want after a heartfelt post about how horrible Netscape was, and why Firefox ended up splitting the Mozilla community in half, but to have an OperaTroll who hasn't even read the post copy-paste his usual trolling into the comments? Of course they aren't your fault, any more than the spreadfirefox fanboys are my fault, but when I think of Opera, I have to think twice to think of you, and Anne, and Arve, and all the high quality releases, because by default I think of comment trolls so blockheaded they don't realize how much harm they are doing.