[tbundy]

Interestingly I look at this news in almost the opposite way!

I used Opera desktop for something like 10 years too. When I moved to Chrome (maybe 3 years ago?) I was like, "ah, this is what these websites are supposed to be like". I was actually quite sad to say goodbye and I still miss a lot of the features (sidebar!), but it always struck me that Opera was living in a bit of a dreamland where they just hoped the web was 100% standards compliant. Admirable, but unfortunately (in the short term at least) users suffered because so many sites just didn't quite work. This may have improved since I jumped ship.

If a major company could give Opera the resources to catch up to Chrome in that area, then I'd be excited for the potential to create a comprehensively market leading browser.

[excuse-me]

Is that a problem anymore? I haven't really noticed any site that had serious issues in Opera (or chrome) - even my bank now works.

The only site with any problems is my Outlook Web Access and that only works full in IE.

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In terms of Opera users not being allowed into sites: mostly just experimental "Look at what we can do with random vendor extensions we've decided to call HTML5 today".

In terms of performance though, Opera has some weird issues. Try to go to theverge.com and scroll.. it's not pretty.