11th Nov 2008
Dear Opera, I’m close to hating you
Dear Opera developers,
I’ve been using Opera browser since 7th versions and loved it dearly, I’ve asked waves after waves of people to use it instead of other browsers, but starting with 7.5 you started to make the stupidest decisions that force me to use Firefox!
- I loved single key shortcuts, especially “1″ and “2″. Why do I have now to enable them in profile if they were there for ages and I’m used to them? Because Firefox users do not use them? I’m not a Firefox user, and neither is any Opera user - do I even need to explain it?
- If the server doesn’t return an answer (i.e. there’s an error in PHP script or the server is down completely) - DON’T EVER RETURN ME A CACHED COPY ON REFRESH! This pisses me off as I’m a developer and I refresh the page to see the changes and there’s none, but instead - the script DIDN’T EVEN RUN, but for some reason you decided to return me a cached copy! And now I don’t even know that something is wrong.
- If I select “Store 0(zero) of my typed addresses”, and unselect “Remember content on visited pages” - that means NEVER STORE ANYTHING I TYPE INTO ADDRESS BAR, INCLUDING my google searches and custom search engine searches.
This was all working before 9.5 - why did you have to break it?
Yes, I did send it to Opera developers. I have nothing against Firefox, BTW. I would’ve used it if it weren’t for it’s close to 20 seconds startup time even on clean install and if they implemented gestures in default installation.
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