My OperaI want opera to improve
Friday, August 6, 2010 4:10:57 PM
It's been 5 years since I started using Internet regularly. Since then, opera has been my default browser. No number of bugs in opera or addons in other browsers could make me shift to another browser. However, it is no longer the only browser I use which it was for the first 3 years. There have always been compatibility issues & I have never cribbed about those. I just chose not to use the website which wasn't compatible with the browser.
But I have noticed that inspite of repeated requests from users to make saved passwords synchronisable and secure, opera has not obliged. Opera has improved a lot from version 8 I used initially. There are very few compatibility issues now, most sited work well. But it's not only opera that has improved, other browsers have improved as well. In the race opera has lost one trait i loved the most about it, stability. I don't know how many times in the past few months I have clicked a link and it hasn't worked just because the clicks were working on a background tab and I only switched the tab to be puzzled about how the tab went somewhere else. This does sound quite funny, but in fact, it is the most frustrating thing to happen in a browser. Many a times it even scrolls on the background tab.
Also, why do I need to configre a mail account to have RSS feeds in the sidebar? Why can't I just have RSS feeds?
Not only opera for PC, opera mobile also has been suffering. If I change the orientation of the phone (Nokia 5230) with opera mobile running, the app is bound to crash leaving me to load the pages again on the slow GPRS connection.
But the question I want to ask is, why the quality is going down? Opera never had these problems. If not improve, at least it should stay where it is, why go down?
While the UI has become more fluid and functional, problems like these haven't been sorted out over the last couple of updates, major and minor. I still maintain that opera has been and will be the most innovative browser of the lot, but that doesn't mean we don't have alternatives, does it?
But I have noticed that inspite of repeated requests from users to make saved passwords synchronisable and secure, opera has not obliged. Opera has improved a lot from version 8 I used initially. There are very few compatibility issues now, most sited work well. But it's not only opera that has improved, other browsers have improved as well. In the race opera has lost one trait i loved the most about it, stability. I don't know how many times in the past few months I have clicked a link and it hasn't worked just because the clicks were working on a background tab and I only switched the tab to be puzzled about how the tab went somewhere else. This does sound quite funny, but in fact, it is the most frustrating thing to happen in a browser. Many a times it even scrolls on the background tab.
Also, why do I need to configre a mail account to have RSS feeds in the sidebar? Why can't I just have RSS feeds?
Not only opera for PC, opera mobile also has been suffering. If I change the orientation of the phone (Nokia 5230) with opera mobile running, the app is bound to crash leaving me to load the pages again on the slow GPRS connection.
But the question I want to ask is, why the quality is going down? Opera never had these problems. If not improve, at least it should stay where it is, why go down?
While the UI has become more fluid and functional, problems like these haven't been sorted out over the last couple of updates, major and minor. I still maintain that opera has been and will be the most innovative browser of the lot, but that doesn't mean we don't have alternatives, does it?
