Opera Browser Review

I gave it several months, and despite some really cool features, I have concluded that the Opera web browser is a piece of shit. I just uninstalled every trace of it on my machine. Why? Because more than half the time I used it, all hyperlinks were disabled. You'd hover the mouse over the link and click but nothing would happen. Click click click click click... nothing. To get to a link you'd have to right click and select from the menu to get it to open. Ridiculous.

No solutions or even a mention from a Google search, either. Apparently Opera is waiting for me to do free beta testing on their product, because no one else out there appears to have run across this problem. I find that hard to believe. The only explanation is that everyone else got so fed up with how much Opera sucks ass, that they just threw it out rather than try to get the company to do a decent job at developing a product. Ah, the Microsoft business model: release half-assed shitbox products, let the consumers mire through the problems, and then don't do shit about it.

To be fair, Opera has two very cool features that make it suck only a tiny bit less, and they are worth mentioning here:

Speed Dial feature opens all new tabs with hyperlinks to 9 websites of your choosing. Fucking way cool.



It also has convenient task buttons, most notably a sign-in button that works for all saved passwords. It's the button shown below with the key on it. Very convenient because no matter what site you go to login to, if it has the password info saved, your login is always in the same place, one click away. You don't even have to find the place on the page to sign in.



Oh, one other thing i just remembered about Opera, and it's probably the most blatant shortcoming. According to my online banking, Opera is not a 128 bit secure browser so they won't allow me to login while using it. I don't know a whole lot about online security, but this last tidbit put me over the top.

Bye bye Opera, go suck on someone your own size.