Tried Opera Browser. Never going back to Firefox.

It was someone else that mentioned it. I just came across a link to the site and tried it in Opera. When there were no adverse effects I thought of this thread. I'm using 9.25, rather than the beta you tried. In 9.25 it just plays the video. The page can be backed out of and the tab can be closed at will. Nothing jumping around and no popup messages.

 

i know, just wanted to pay u back after u got me good on this one , no hard feeling

i must admit that it was a good prank. Being nasty myself and tricked my brother. He was swearing at me for a good few minutes. Thx for a few moments of ha ha heartburns

cheers ...

 

Here's a bad site in Opera 9.25, this one isn't a prank.

http://www.rollingstone.com/

As you scroll down the page a ways the text gets garbled on the left side. As much as I love the features in Opera it is frustrating when you hit a popular site like this and it's partially trashed. The page works great in IE. I haven't tried it in Firefox.

 

. no issue under FF or Minefield
. no issue under Opera 9.5 snapshot 9716 (they fixed it!)
. same smoothness on both Minefield and Opera 9.5/9716 (starting to merge in page rendering technique???)

cheers ...

 

9.5? I can only update to 9.25 and I'm still getting the rollingstones error.

 

9.5 is still beta and is only for testing, apart from the very 1st snapshot, it currently has loads of bugs, security issue and instability! i use it to compare between beta browsers (Minefield, Safari, Maxthon ...)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=168731

9.25 is the current official version of Opera

u can run 9.5 beta in // of 9.25, but be very careful, i know many when updating the snapshot in between, destroyed the whole official set up and must restart from scratch

cheers ...

 

You can find the latest Opera builds in the first topic on this page. They are generally released weekly on Fridays.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=31

 

Use this link instead:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

 

Thanks for the links & info guys.

On the rollingstone site, the rendering is much better on the 9.5 beta vs the 9.25, but still has problems at the bottom right side, so it's not perfect yet. FF2 and IE7 has no rendering problems at on this site.

 

That's okay. He got me, too. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

 

Yea that one got me good. My volume was up high and I had to chase the browser. LOL

Time to email all my friends that link.

 

fyi kaspersky throws a flag on this site for 2 different items.. you may want to pull that down.. again just a fyi.. i also tried it with avira and it comes up some joke thing i do not remember the exact name now..

 

I hope not. I've run it on two computers.

Something may have recently changed, but the page has apparently been around for awhile, nabbing unsuspecting victims (in a non-virus form).

 

It is broken. Very broken.
The difference is, it's not necessarily the end-user who feels the pain. It's the web developers. Web developers who have to spend twice as long as normal (and even that is an optimistic estimate) making a website because of idiots who insist on using broken browsers.

The hell it is. See above.

Thank you guys, for keeping the web from evolving beyond the mid-90's. Who needs progress? Improvement? Screw that.

 

As you point out in your signature, end users are going to use what matters to them - what works and is likable for them.