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http://www.macnn.com/articles/03/04/15/opera.pledges/

Opera pledges Mac browser development

updated 02:10 am EDT, Tue April 15, 2003

 
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Opera pledged to of its web browser after it released a test update for Windows and Linux, despite earlier threats to halt development of its Mac product when Apple released Safari. c|net's report notes that the Mac version typically follows other releases, but that Opera's Mac browser is more than a generation behind the new Windows and Linux releases with the release of version 6 in December 2002.


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    04/15, 03:03am | report spam | Reply |

    so what???

    We have Safari beta2 and Camino 0.7

    WTF needs Opera?

    Non-free browsers that spam users with ads should go to h***. :p

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    Thank God.


    I was worried. What would I do without Opera?

    ...

    Pretty much what I do now.

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    04/15, 03:23am | report spam | Reply |

    opera who???

    no thanks to banner ads, no thanks to a buggy browser when pushed to the limit, and no thanks to lackluster developement... bye, bye opera we have safari = )

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    04/15, 03:33am | report spam | Reply |

    WTF?

    And we are supposed to be bothered? I was one of the morons who PAID for Opera at the start to try and encourage devlopment. Fat lot of good that did me - The OSX version appeared in a perpetula Beta stage and the bookmarking organisation was pants. All that before we even get into the fact that it crashed more often than Internet Exploder and displayed pages badly. Oh, and the support was non existent - Even for people who paid.

    Do us and yourselves a favour Opera, forget about the Mac platform and foist your 3 legged donkey of a browser on the Windows lemmings. Safari's here!

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    04/15, 05:41am | report spam | Reply |

    Blah

    really couldn't care less.

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    Agreed from a paid user

    I also paid. I was really excited way back when - wasn't it in the 1990s they started this project? But the Mac development languished, at first due to no fault on Opera's part, but later I think they just didn't care. Communication was rare, they hardly ever kept us up to date, and when it did come out...well, by that time they had strayed so far from their original vision and user interface I didn't even use Opera on Windows any more. The Mac version was way too buggy and hard to use (I had the System 9 version).

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    Hehehe

    Know what this is? A play for attention. They tried to get attention by saying "Hey Apple! We're gonna stop development if you don't use OUR code for YOUR browser!"
    THen of course, when they saw Apple AND the Mac community didn't give a rat's a**, they say this... "Okay, hehe, um, we're going to continue development! yeah! we're still cool..." (of course, I heard opera is going to use the KHTML engine that Apple is using in Safari... haha!)
    Forget Opera. We have Safari, Camino (which kicks booty), going to have Phoenix, and always have Explorer. Enough already. =)

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    s'long Opera

    First they say "Apple, you better drop what you're doing right now and switch to our code base or else" and now they say they want to stay with the Mac after all? Are they on drugs or what? Don't expect us to support you -- we have enough choices already without your lukewarm support.

    Nertz to you, Opera. I'll stick with Safari (btw the newest beta is great -- every incompatibility problem I reported has been fixed) and and Netscape/Camino.

    (BTW has Opera improved any lately? i last used it over a year ago and it crashed like crazy so I just gave it up.)

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    yeahhh laterrrr opera

    Safari, Omniweb, Mozilla, Camino, Explorer--and then Opera has the BALLS to threaten end of development if Apple doesn't license their pretty crappy product, as if anyone has missed, or even used, a product that was never good in the first place. See ya.

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    04/15, 10:59am | report spam | Reply |

    I know, I know

    I use Opera on my PC platform. I, personally, think it has more features than Mozilla and eeech... IE. However, I bought it so the ads don't bother me. Version 7 is great but I agree that this browser just doesn't need to keep Mac support.

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