You Know You're an Opera Fanboy/Girl When...

You Know You're an Opera Fanboy/Girl When...

I'm thinking of putting up an Opera Fan Site called Opera Fanboy, I was wondering if you could help contribute to answering this question:

You Know You're an Opera Fanboy/Girl When...

Your contributions would be welcome here, or just reply to this post.

This is what I have so far:

You contantly get context menus in IE and explorer, trying to do the mouse gesture for "back"

You buy a 5 button mouse so you can program Ctrl-N and Ctrl-F4 in the thumb buttons.

You deem as ****wits people who think Opera is based on Gecko

You get physically violent at the sight of these words: "please upgrade your browser, this site only supports IE and Netscape"

You constantly claim Opera usages stats are under-stated because of the spoofing of user-strings (and hence it is at all likely that Opera has 95% market share...)

You have an email template for webmasters that starts "my.opera.com/openweb/info/"

You get sick of your browser being so god damn stable when you're not testing the latest beta build

You've screamed bloody murder at Haarvard

You believe that this: is true

"you've screamed bloody murder at haavard" that guy's an institution...!

Your blood boils when a n00b signs on and their first post is

"when will version XXX be released" and you know you're a fanboy when all you reply is WIR!

then...

when a user who's name sounds a lot like neon replies saying the next version will be using Gecko & that he knows this because of his fire side chats with the Opera CEO...

cg

*grins ruefully*

you, like Michmaj, have sent people to this link

and actually, when you reply to n00bs that there are newer versions of opera actually secretly available here:

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/supersecretbeta/ ,

along with the secret version of Opera 8, at

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/8/en/std/ow32enen8.exe

You think *every* browser should have a footer printing bug

edit: don't edit your post!

*you press f4 in explorer to hide/show the folder list

huh, I suppose the same would be:

you press F8 in IE/Mozilla to go to the address bar

Oh, and

you've started embarassing petitions which get misreported by the Inquirer...

you've got your picture on the "Opera Fans" page

you keep pressing 1 and 2 to move between windows

Holy crap subtitles, you are cracking me up!!!!

What a great thread!

I know not many might understand this, but here's mine and it's actually true (or sick, however you want to look at it)---

You don't go out with someone if they use IE and don't use Opera or at least give it a try.



I honestly have no idea why it matters to me but it's definately a minus in my book and something I can't seem to get around. I wish it weren't true, but women that use Opera just seem to have it going on and know more and are sexier.

OK, let the flaming begin now.

you just feel insulted seeing the IE icon

you have ever SMSed an Opera employee

you write blackmails to the skin authors if they haven't adapted their skin to the latest beta during the next 24h after the initial release

Originally posted by michmaj
you have ever SMSed an Opera employee

wow, really? which one? in an annoying stalker way or just being friendly?

Originally posted by subtitles
wow, really? which one? in an annoying stalker way or just being friendly?

michmaj got banned, so he sent an SMS to H-kon and promptly got unbanned!

cg

When anyone asks you for computer help, your first response is "Download Opera".

You have "pera" tattooed on your right buttock.

You have "pera" tattooed on your right buttock.

Brilliant! It'll go with my t-shirt, hat and mug:up:

Re: You Know You're an Opera Fanboy/Girl When...

Originally posted by subtitles
You contantly get context menus in IE and explorer, trying to do the mouse gesture for "back"

Counts me in.

Also, trying mouse gestures for (assortedly) forwards and back in your windows explorer alternative (or even WE), new document and close document in Word / Excel / etc.

Plus:

You get bored of Inferiornet Explorer users pointing out the relatively small number of bugs in Opera that can cause it to crash, whilst ignoring the muiltitude of IE holes that exist, many of which are tagged "allows attacker to run code of their choice on your machine"

You have your own pet bug, create your page with a test case and keep posting about it.

You visit a page 10 times and crash your windows hoping that next time an inspector IXXI log will get generated.

You send IXXI logs to Micro$loth when IE or one of their other products crashes and don't understand why it is not apreciated.

You have Opera staff members photos on the walls in your room.

You know Opera staff members biographies by heart and you have their phone number (under quick dial) in your cell phone.

You can't imagine surfing pr0n sites without the Opera's slideshow feature and popup blocking.

If your gf catches you surfing pr0n sites you say that you are testing the new improved jpeg handling in Opera (and you actually believe it).

You get completely insane when a person with posts: 1 complains that Opera sucks and that he can't get any support on this forum.

On computer systems of computer n00bs (or women) that are under your care you install Opera, hide the IE shortcut and change Opera icon to IE icon and name it "Internet" to fool them.

You install an internet connection in your ancient 486 just to install Opera and see how fast it works on it.

When old friends who moved and now live in Norway come to visit and say "We brought you a present, something from Norway" you yell "Opera" and don't understand why they stare at you blankly (yeah it really happened).

You can tell the name of each of the 176+ Opera skins by looking at a screenshot.

You get angry at people who say "tabs" when it's called "pages"

You tell your partner: "the choice is simple, it's either me or IE"

You have a folder of bookmarked sites that work correctly in Opera but not in every other browser.

Your IP is banned from ftp.opera.com and snapshot.opera.com for excessive bandwitch use.

When your bank's site doesn't support Opera you want to talk with the CEO and if that doesn't work/help you change the bank.

You never saw your brother's/best friend's/whatever wedding pictures because he put them on his personal page that looks wrong in Opera and you refuse to visit it.

You actually learn html/css/js/etc to prove to WMs that their code is badly written.

You move to Norway to get better pings to opera.com and ftp.opera.com

You claim that open source kills innovative spirit.

You have all Opera versions that ever existed on your computer beeing particularly proud of rare jems like 2 different builds but same version number (once there was a morning and an evening build of a certain RC) and the infamous broken 7.20 beta 2 version that so few people managed to download.

You run more than one Opera version at the same time and compare the speed of rendering.

You start your posts by saying "I am not an Opera fanboy, but..."

You name your cat Jack.

You watch all your DivXs using Opera's music panel.


You start to call Opera browser "My Preciousss" (When a computer doesn't have Opera installed: "We needs my Preciousss")

You make mousegestures when reading a newspaper (or in your sleep).

You wonder when will haavard post in this thread and what will he say.

You actually understand this thread or even find it remotely funny and try to think of something to post.

@michmaj!

Violently waken up at 3am on Sunday you are able to tell 40 nicknames of Opera forum users. After a cup of coffee you are able to tell another 80, describing their avatars and precisely quoting their custom user texts (under nicknames).

Sometimes you tend to think that you know Norway a bit better than your hometown.

You have no idea what Luciano Pavarotti has to do with opera.

You insist that there's no internet browser in default installation of Windows.

Oh forgot one - you swear by your life that rabbits are blue

Originally posted by arty
Oh forgot one - you swear by your life that rabbits are blue

"On computer systems of computer n00bs (or women) that are under your care you install Opera, hide the IE shortcut and change Opera icon to IE icon and name it "Internet" to fool them."
:] Great idea..

"You insist that there's no internet browser in default installation of Windows."
That's one of the best IMO

• While using IE, you'r wondering why there are so many windows in taskbar.
• When you want to send mail (not e-mail) you go to mailbox and seek for Ctrl, Shift and K.
• One of your dreams is to live in Norway.

ahahaha hilarious!!

You desperately look for a "FF" button in windows explorer

You have all Opera versions installed (even not-public betas/alphas )

You have installed Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/2, Solaris, FreeBSD and QNX and bought new mobailphone just to see how Opera looks on different OS-es

You know where the non-public betas/alphas are kept

Have to swipe clear your PMs totally every month because of lack of space

Know who the user profiles 1-10 belong to by heart, as well as the user no.s of even irregular Opera staff.

Can recite how many different native language forums Opera has.

Have Opera on icing on the wedding cake for bringing both parties together.

You pay for software that been running on PC for free for the last 4 monhts.

Using IE feels like winding up a telphone before you can make a call.

You think the Opera forum is a warm hang out for net radicals, and free spirits.

You think the likes of cg,etc, have a 24 hour job as night-watchmen on the south pole (march -sep) and the north pole (nov-feb) to get that many posts.

You worry about the future of the human race when so many good and decent people, follow blindly the hollow men of Redmond,

Rgds
osolomio

*you have 2 programs installed on your computer: an OS and Opera
*you have Opera in your windows startup folder
*when you press the O key on your keyboard, Opera starts
*you have only used IE once: to download Opera (i have )

• You think that Hitler was mistaken.. Not Germans are better race, people using Opera are better race.
• You spend hours searching for 'Custom User Text' in your profile on other forums.
• In your host file you have set all hosts to be redirected to 193.62.116.2.
• Woken up in the middle of the night you can tell byte after byte whole opera.exe file.
• You know ID of all topics and posts on the forum and know what they are about and who wrote them.

You tell someone something that babysnatcher said and they say 'WHO?' in horror.

The words 'closet geek', 'mimic', 'neonman' and 'sanguinemoon' are parts of your everyday conversation. And 'akh'.

You believe everything you read in Debates and Discussions (and you have a very bad headache).

You laugh aloud at threads like this and when your nine year old kid asks what's so funny you spend the next twenty minutes trying to explain.

When you hear the word Haavard, you think of HKM, not Harvard Law School.

You meet someone you haven't seen for a while and when they ask what you've been up to, you nearly say, 'oh, just beta-testing...' then you realise that's what you said last time you met them. And the time before.

You actually spend an hour trying to work out which film it is from a picture the size of a postage stamp, with no actor you recognize.

You get annoyed when you see Opera on a warez site.

You actually get excited that Lars has updated the very splendid Lightning button set so it works in Opera 7 (thank you, Lars).

You give serious thinking time up - when your brain cells are quite clearly popping and fizzing out of existence every day, to whether this thread should in fact be in the Opera Community thread.

You sit and think of something you can say for half an hour in a thread like this when what you really should be doing is going to bed because it's gone 1am and you have a bloody heavy day tomorrow.

Great idea, subtitles.

Ketlan

Oh oh oh, and you watch The Recruit, just so you can see the few seconds when Opera is featured in a big budget hollywood film.

Re: You Know You're an Opera Fanboy/Girl When...

Originally posted by subtitles
You contantly get context menus in IE and explorer, trying to do the mouse gesture for "back" [/B]

That's me fer sure!

-When you create an account just to post to this thread!

When you start feeling enraged, as a clueless Mac user starts to tell you about "Safari, this great new browser that is finally going to provide an alternative to Internet Explorer"

When you have actually gotten your girlfriend to use Opera and M2 as her primary browser/e-mail client.

When you have finally come to peace with the fact that the name 'Opera' just doesn't make any logical sense -- that there truly is nothing in common between 'Die Zauberflote'and surfing the internet, and you are OK with that.

You wonder why your colleagues (who do not use Opera) need so much longer to finish some internet researches...

On computer systems of computer n00bs (or women) that are under your care you install Opera, hide the IE shortcut and change Opera icon to IE icon and name it "Internet" to fool them.

Hehe, what if they start praising IE for all the new features?

And to continue the thread:
...you secretly bash IE in your site. (I saw something similar in someone's source code and it inspired me. )
E.g., when you write a bit of extra code to compensate for another browser's shortcomings, you do something like this:

/*The additional-rules-because-stupid-IE-won't-comply-with-standards style rules*/
[I]Stuff to insert to fix IE's errors[/I]
.
.
.

I wonder whom I can get to convert, of the people I know personally....

You miss out on promotion at work because you spent too much time on this damn forum

you're impressed by cybersquatters who actually address Opera users to press Ctrl-T to bookmark, rather than the usual Ctrl-D, like here. So much so you actually bookmark it and post about it in forums

Originally posted by kingFINN
*you have only used IE once: to download Opera (i have ;) )

* u actively keep from having to use IE again... ever again.
* when friends ask for u to help them download Opera, u ignore the 'E' and use FTP. (never fails to impress them)

$ ftp ftp.opera.com
Connected to pub2.opera.com.
220 pub2.opera.com FTP server ready.
User (pub2.opera.com:(none)): anonymous
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password.
Password:
230-
230-Welcome to Opera Software's FTP service!
230-
230-You are logged in as anonymous@--
230-
230-The time now is --
230-
230-If you have any technical question about Opera, visit our support pages:
230-
230-http://www.opera.com/support/
230-
230-If you have problems with this FTP server, contact webmaster@opera.com.
230-
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 root 4096 May 27 11:50 pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 273 May 21 09:32 welcome.msg
226-Transfer complete.
226 Quotas off
ftp: 128 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 128000.00Kbytes/sec.

PS. i edited out my IP address... coz its lovely and its static and if u scan my network i will punish u :)

• Ask your chemistry teacher why (s)he says that H stands for hydrogen not Haavard (->)
• In spite of having The Recruit on DVD and VHS and being on that movie in cinema for several times you've never seen more tehn few minutes of it.

Originally posted by subtitles
Oh oh oh, and you watch The Recruit, just so you can see the few seconds when Opera is featured in a big budget hollywood film.

Yes! Did that:) And was chuffed as anything when we noticed some excitement two rows below us when Opera made its appearance. More Opera-fans! Go us:)

You begin sentences with "Well, in Opera, which is my browser...

You patiently explain again why you have no trouble with popups unlike all those IE users (especially if you had to add a popup blocker on your office computer to make the secretary stop complaining).

Originally posted by Caitlin
You begin sentences with "Well, in Opera, which is my browser...

And on the same line, you meet someone new and then dominate the conversation talking about Opera and the Opera forums, completely not noticing that their eyes were glazing over.

Only later do you find out they don't even have a computer and have never browsed the web.

In your Computer Class, knowing that the computer will revert back to original condition once it shuts down that night, you nevertheless use IE to download and install Opera in order to browse the Internet during the two fifteen-minute breaks during the three-hour class.

When you had to look something up quickly at the local library, it took you almost a minute to remember how to go "Back" without Mouse Gestures.

You, for some reason, are using another browser (perhaps at a friend's or at the library), and, wanting to quickly validate the source against a DTD at the W3C, by force of habit press Ctrl + Alt + V, to no avail.

you always refer to ie as "the dreaded..."
you erased your zip disk holding such classics as "wgoldie.exe" to make sure you have a backup of the opera beta you are using so you can sleep!!

• You delete C:\Windows\ (or C:\WINNT or whatever ) just to have space to install Opera
• You prefer to use telnet and write/recive raw HTTP headers rather then use IE

One of your dreams is to live in Norway.

I live in Norway, and its not a dream living here :/

Originally posted by dan1el
I live in Norway, and its not a dream living here :/

*goes to eliminate the traitor*

Just noticed it now. Nice thread. Here are my two cents.

When travel agent claims that all tickets are sold, you try to redial and ID as MS intern.

On your way from bed to toilet and back you check email and Opera forums twice.

Webmasters hate you since you always try to validate their sites.

You place link to Opera bugs tracking system on your start page.

You wonder how keeping such a little space on your hard Opera could fill your heart.

when you automatically press Ctrl + F, when you wanna make a search within a page.

when you press Ctrl + Alt + V when you are using Mozilla or f...... IE in order to validate the source code of a site.

when you press Ctrl + Alt + O when using a public computer with f...... IE in order to spoof as Opera