Opera, what a piece of shit
by James on Apr.29, 2010, under Computers
Along with a change in operating system, I decided that I would give a new browser a try. Opera was on the list for Mint’s repository and so I figured what the hell.
Big mistake.
I used it solely for about a week before dumping it. I’ll start with the minor complaints. First off, the UI is a cutting edge if you’re still a big fan of Netscape. Of course, eye candy isn’t everything and I will have to admit that Opera has the fastest renderer that I have ever used, too bad it doesn’t render about 2/3 of the web pages I visited correctly. Most of them were minor with overlapping or oddly sized elements but a few pages were completely unusable as the menus did not display right.
I find it odd that a modern browser would have this much trouble. Apparently the people at Opera haven’t heard of web standards. In lieu of that, they put in a context menu for you to report a broken page.
In short, if you like the modern web, use a modern web browser, if you still only use Usenet and long for Geocities then Opera is for you.
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