Abandoned Depot

Hmm... too much time has passed since I posted before. I'm fine so far.

In last few weeks, the topic titled "Which is more secure, IE or Firefox? Why don't you use Opera?"(the article is written in Japanese) brought stormy discussion in Japan. I guess it didn't effect to IE and Firefox users as much as we expected, but it gave us good opportunity to think about what attracted us to Opera.

I regard myself as an Opera user in the second oldest group in Japan. I met Opera in 2002 when its version was 6.x. (Some enthusiastic users began to use it from 5.x, although it couldn't show Japanese letter properly.) At that time, I got ADSL connection, and was looking for good web browser. As far as I remember, there were several choices such as IE6, Netscape4.x, Netscape6.x, Mozilla(unsure) and Opera. I chose Opera without hesitation.

I am a rock'n roll fan and a patient with twisted loser syndrome. I am always looking for an alternative selection and prefer to support the minor corner. But that wasn't the reason that I chose Opera. It was obvious that Opera was the best. All of the points were superior than the others. You might point out that Opera couldn't handle some pages suited to IE. Did it matter? No, for me. Especially I was deeply impressed by the functions and the interface that had not been found in the other browsers. Soon I decided to pay the money and registered.

The serious problems were only in M2 (previous name of Opera Mail). It couldn't treat Japanese letters well. I began posting to news group during the beta-term of 7.0. However my English was poor, my posts were received with sincerity. It was enough that I began to love Opera community and its staffs.

Since then Opera keeps up the best place for me. Actually, the other browsers lapped by Opera are catching up now, and Opera relatively loses its brilliance. I'm not anxious about that. Because the situation strengthens the value of supporting Opera as a user, and seems the cause of the strong storm mentioned above.