Opera 10.51 browser problems, crashes, and Failure

Opera Browser 10.51 problems, crashes, and Failure.

I just restarted my affair with computers 4 years ago. I started in the 1970s with a timex-sinclair and wrote basic on a cassette tape, but quit using computers when windows came out.

I could see where all this was heading, and I did not participate. Until recently.

Four years ago the political and social corruption in America provoked me speak out in public, and the biggest public forum is the internet. So I got back into computers to create political websites. I chose Opera as my browser, and have used it ever since.

Until now. Opera 10.51 is a terribly flawed browser, and these flaws have caused me to set up a firefox browser to take over where Opera has fallen flat on its face.

First, the upgrade to 10.51 did not preserve my settings or set-up. After the install, it took 3 hours to find and get the features back where I wanted them, rather than how Opera decided I would use their features. That was really frustrating, but the problems were only just beginning.

Everytime I start Opera 10.51, I have to be willing to spend ten minutes to get past its first crash.

Yep, every time I fire up Opera 10.51 it crashes. Every time! Then it hangs up my computer, taking up to ten minutes to clear my system. Many times it will not clear, and I have to kill and restart my computer.

During browsing I am not yet having all the problems rendering web pages that others are complaining about. Page rendering is good, but during browsing the damn thing will constantly lock up and crash.

I complained about these problems to the Opera Forum, and was immediatly banned. I was conversing with another annoyed Opera 10.51 user/webmaster across the Opera Forum. Though he was withdrawing his reccomendation of Opera, I suggested to wait to see how the corporate Opera responded to user complaints.

Then they banned me. So, I must suggest that you do not use Opera because of the fatal flaws in Opera 10.51. I also must condemn Opera as an irresponsible corporation that abuses their users, both with flawed products and with their bone-headed censorship of loyal users who have the termitidy to complain about the glaring problems in Opera 10.51

The only people who should use Opera are people who do not want to get any work done on their computer.

If you are excited by spending as much time trying to make your browser work as you do working, then Opera 10.51 is the product for you.

Opera rushed this piece of S##T out to its loyal users (ME!!) so they could take advantage of the Windows Browser Option thing that is happening in Europe. This is going to blow up in their face, and will bring Opera out of obscurity, and into the full hatred of the poor souls who chose Opera as their browser.

Opera's downloads have apparently doubled as a product of the new Euro-browser option in Windows. Once all of these people download this flawed product, they will hate Opera forever. The poor decision by Opera to widely distribute a flawed product will result in a momentary rise in downloads, then a major collapse of Opera usage as all of the problems in this flawed browser infuriate users.

This will kill Opera's chances of ever becoming a major browser, which will kill Opera. After dealing with these problems in their browser, and the NAZI-STYLE suppression of fact and truth on their forums, I say good riddance.

Overall rating of Opera 10.51: Sucks Ass
Overall rating of Opera Corporate: Sucks Ass

I believe all of us who relied on Opera should have a wake for the death of a once-great product.

Cheers!

Alex

Submitted by alexwierbinski on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 22:09.

Firefox wins 2010 round of Browser Wars

Submitted by alexwierbinski on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 18:28.

Woke up to get to work today, fired up Opera 10.51 and it crashed and locked up my computer again, as usual since Opera produced this flawed version of my ex-default browser. Yep, this was the last time I use Opera as my default browser.

After un-fucking my computer, I fired up my firefox, transferred over all of my favorites, and began loading the passwords for all my project sites.

Bye-Bye Opera. It was good while it lasted. (FOUR YEARS!)

I would say that I'll give them another try when they get their shit together, if they ever do. But their deception and rudeness, not to mention the heavy-handedness of their ass biting Opera "Forum" (Is a heavily censored fan-site a "forum?"-NO) has already made my decision for me: NEVER AGAIN!

I strongly recommend that we all put this untrustworthy product, and the evil company that produced it, into the same catagory as IE (internet explorer), and bury it in the trashcan of history.

My next, and last official act as an ex-dedicated Opera user will come after I post this entry: Removing Opera as my Default Browser.

Alex

Something Funny at Opera-Land

Submitted by alexwierbinski on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 18:54.

Check out the Opera "Forums" for a funny thing: Every post that seriously complains about Opera 10.51 flaws is immediatly locked, then shortly thereafter removed.

I have a couple of words that describe the new opera: Soap Opera. Yes, Opera-soap is applied liberally to any who complain about all the time and effort that Opera has stolen from them. Therefore I think opera should be renamed. How does "SoapOpera" sound?

I have not worked up the numbers, but I have spent over 10 hours dealing with the issues from SoapOpera's 10.51meltdown. Multiply that by how many millions of users? SoapOpera is turning from a once great browser to an outright social liability.

Here's a prediction: SoapOpera will issue a public apology along with the version they think will work. In the meantime, SoapOpera is applying full-on 1984 tatics, a real scorch and burn policy towards even the most respectful mention of constant crashes on the SoapOpera 10.51browser.

The future SoapOpera apology will not gloss over their present behavior: Character is expressed during a crisis, not afterward. The closest thing I can compare Opera's treatment of this 10.51 meltdown is how Bush responded to Katrina: Dazed looks and LIes. SoapOpera is currently doing exactly the same thing. This responce reveals Soap-Opera's true character, which can only be called deceptive, bullying, and openly dishonest. Just like Bush. The only difference is that Soap-Opera created their own Katrina with 10.51.

Thank god SoapOpera never had, and now has no future possibility of ever having, the market share that Microsoft possesses. They are already acting like scumbags with the pittance of the market they presently posess. If they had any real power they would be an even greater danger to honesty on, and about the internet.

Anyway, it's offcial: I just switched my default browser from SoapOpera to Firefox. I am pissed off that I was betrayed by SoapOpera.

If you want to avoid that feeling, avoid Soap-Opera.

Opera Browser failure brings Firefox, but Chrome wins out

Submitted by alexwierbinski on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 11:10.

Hey Al,
In the wake of the meltdown and loss of functionality of my long-time Opera browser, I switched to firefox. After the Opera meltdown, I decided that I needed a backup browser in case my front line browser melted down again.

So I checked out chrome. Though I have previously used chrome to check out my web page construction through their browser, I never liked the name, and the user interface is weird and turned me off. But after setting up chrome as my backup browser, I realized that google's chrome browser really really blows the door off of mozilla. Really. But it is different.

The bookmarks are weird. The tools set up is weird. But the frkn thing really seems to work, and work very quickly.

I can say one thing from the git: Nothing loads faster or cleaner. Mozilla takes forever. Opera was much quicker loading and browsing than Mozilla, before it started crashing on each load.(OMG!) But chrome is up and running as quick as you click it. Really. And it browses as fast as Opera, as far as the human senses can detect.

Both Opera and Chrome have lightening browsing speed. Then Opera locks up and crashes, and Chrome speeds on past. Click your Chrome icon, and the thing is up and running. Click your Opera icon, and your computer is crashing and hung up for ten minutes while it fails to load.

Click your firefox icon, and it's like waking up after an all night drinking binge: Firefox will load and fire up, but it takes a hell of a long time to get its ass out of bed. Firefox is kind of like your mom. Chrome is like the hot chick next door. Nothing wrong with mom, but when I want to go out, I would rather leave her at home, and browse with chrome.

Chrome also features a "new tab" screen that displays pre-set links, just as Opera did, but these links seem to be established by usage, rather than assigned. I didn't like it when I first set up the favorites bar, but by the time I was done, the logic behind this move was clear. I'll see if that continues with use.

This may be a problem for regular searches, such as I made for the committee site, where I want my preset screen (al la Opera) to reflect my daily search needs, not my recent browsing. But this feature may be adjustable in Chrome. I don't know, but I will figure it out as I use Chrome.

Chrome was also seamless in loading my favorites and passwords, while firefox was capable of loading my favorites, but I could not get it to suck up my passwords.

It took quite a while to look-up and set-up all my password protected sites on firefox. Not so with chrome. Though I had to google search how to import my favorites and passwords, because the chrome controls are so different from the IE model, which Opera and Mozilla still follow, it was actually really easy.

I also really like chrome's favorites bar across the top of the browser. When you drag a link to the favorites bar from your favorites list, you can edit the link so that only the icon appears on the favorites bar, leaving room for what looks like fifty icon links on your favorite bar, no text. It is damn slick and looks real sharp. If the favorites icon is a blank, you can append text. Damn slick, those google bastards are.

Firefox is still my default at the present, but now I start chrome before firefox when I start working. It's that good. After going through all this shit with my Soap Opera browser, I must suggest that you set up a backup browser with your favorites and passwords. Just in case.

That's what I was doing with the chrome browser, after running safari for awhile and deciding that chrome would be the backup for my default firefox browser.

And if you do set up chrome as a backup browser, you may, like me, just keep on using it. It is damn fast and super clean, once you get past the weird interface. But once you do get past the weird interface, it seems like the old IE based interface, the interface that is also perpetuated by Opera and Firefox, was comfortable, but ultimately unnecessary, and may even be in the way.

Anyway, this is just a heads-up. I expect to continue firing up Soap Opera to use its easy ability to identify tags and formatting info when editing my web pages. I can't think of why I would use firefox, but my use of chrome is preliminary, and its automatic features may not work out in the long term.

I may finally end up back on firefox. Hey, I have no complaints about firefox. It is solid, if slow. If I had the power to rid the world of one browser, Firefox or IE, the world would be rid of IE. If people had any wisdom and intelligence IE would have failed a long time ago.

But after an evening of work with chrome I doubt I would give up chrome and return to Opera even if they completely fixed the very fast, but very buggy 10.51 version that caused me to shitcan Opera. We'll see.

You did turn me away from IE, and onto firefox when I got back into computers, so I figured that you deserve the results of my browser investigations. Chrome is worth checking out to see if it fits needs and expectations that you did not know you even had, as well as completing your present browsing tasks quicker than firefox can dream of. Opera was close in browsing speed, but chrome beats everyone in loading time, and does not crash.

Alex Wierbinski