Some of the text contained in one P element was wrapping according to the containing DIV, but some of the text was spilling out of the containing DIV. Then the text goes back to wrapping correctly. It’s like Opera is paying attention to carriage returns in the source code. The line that isn’t wrapping is a list of four-character long file extensions, so it’s not like the words are too big to fit within the bounding DIV.

Just some screwy behavior that isn’t happening in Chrome, IE6, IE7, Firefox or Safari.

Sorry Opera.

Opera desktop’s only real hope for market dominance would be if people gave a shit about security. Which they clearly don’t ;)

Yes, I have utilized that config option (and a couple of others). None have restored the behavior I’m looking for. In short, I want to see the old Opera 9.2 address bar behavior. The address bar is not where I want to do searches – that is what the search area is for. Search results just clutters up the address bar information making it virtually impossible to do what I want. I want typed in history for the address bar. I’d prefer that it be updated as I use it by moving the most recently used item to the top of the list. I explicitely do not want the address bar to be the general search area. Either one of the search area or Google would do that admirably.

From your comment I am not sure what part exactly you dislike in new Opera address bar… If it is content search – it can be easily disabled without touching rest:

opera:config > UserPrefs > Addressbar Content Search

FF did the same stupid thing with their “awesome bar” (NOT!) but although it appears they were dragged kicking and screaming to allow users choice, in the end they did. I have a dozen or so places I visit every day. I don’t like bookmarks. (In early times I saved them by the hundreds – and never needed them a second time. History too IME is filled with one-off crap I’ll likely (very) seldom need again.) I have always been able to just go through the rotation of common places via the address bar but no longer – at least easily and in the manner I prefer. The best I can now do is disable the new address bar crap and manually edit ~/.opera/opera.dir to get the sites I want listed where I want. Of course you can’t add a new one by simply typing nor does the list update which one was last visited by moving the most recent to the top. Maybe nobody else likes that behavior (though I know that isn’t true because I’ve found entire threads complaining about the behavior change) but it is nevertheless how I prefer to work.

What will kill opera for me is when I can get the behavior I prefer with the speed I want somewhere else. I don’t care who builds what browser. I even tend to be a brand loyal person but I’m not going to drink anyones koolaid and loyalty is a two way street. Opera making fundamental changes with no way back demonstates a lack of loyalty to existing user preferences. It is immaterial whether opera devs think it’s the better way. What matters is whether it is the users way. Choice is paramount.

Recognition is when they say “we got it from there”. Like Microsoft and RSS icon story.

When features are copied but presented (obviously or implyingly) as something new and original that reeks.

I agree that competition is good but I think winning competition should not be the goal. Making the good browser should. :)

About opera losing the war… Is there a war worth fighting for anyway? I see microsoft wanting a large control of the user base, and I feel that firefox is also aggressive on these metrics, but must every browser get benchmarked against these stupid numbers? I rarely care for the market share of the products I’m using, nor with the sale numbers of the artists I listen to. Firefox 3 had a great download day lauch, but it’s ultimately futile. The browser is neither better nor worse because of the number of users it has. [edit: this is actually slightly important firefox, because it actually gets most of its qualities from the plug-ins, which are made by the fans and the users, but it's not directly correlated with the number of users.]

I agree that Chrome stole a lot from the existing browsers, and was built on the experience of excellent browsers (a good design, and google’s own natural publicity power helped do the rest). But I’m not bitter. From an intellectual standpoint, I welcome competition, and stealing good ideas is not a crime. It’s recognition of the quality of the product themselves. I’d probably have been disappointed if google chrome didn’t support the best features of the existing browsers. Opera will probably not get the credit for its good innovations, but the underdogs rarely do (outside the restricted circle of people who already know opera well).

Webbläsaren Opera lever sitt egna liv bredvid Firefox och Internet Explorer. Den är en grupp hängivna fans. Nu när Google lanserat sin webbläsare Chrome, kommer det att ske en del ändringar i statistiken över vilka läsare vi använder oss av.
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But, but I sadly agree that they had not been so friendly to promote a very friendly relationship with guests. Many people think that Opera cannot do things saying so here and there just because they don´t know how to use it. People in general are lazy I include myself. I use Opera from Win 3.11, and never have being dissapointed. Some bad pages or tricky pages make me 1% open IE7. I installed Firefox, its good but I have to look for plugins, its not a piece of software its more than one working for the browser itself. Firefox whithout extensions would be your browser ? Chrome exists just because the name of Google is so strong. By now is a browser than after more than 10 years was not in the Web, they collected the best of all others and stole it, practices they were learning from Micro$oft. Years encouraging people to use Firefox, and now they go and make their one, is ok but I dont see no innovation in it, the adress bar capturing all your movements may be. In my country there is an adage… “Get fame, an go to sleep”. Opera is not famous so if they want to continue working I will be continue using it.

Worpdpress login is simple form. That works perfectly with Opera.

>About five of my favorite web sites appear broken in Opera

Links? :)

>Chrome, being a new browser just surpassed Opera grabbing one percent of the market.

Chromу is crappy beta used by few geeks inspired by insane blog hype. It is not surpassing anyone for now.

PS damn, Google good at brainwashing. :)

Google Chrome on the other hand, has an interesting underhood, the customization is too primitive at this point, if its going to support extensions in the final release, it will steal FF user base, not much of Opera’s. I don’t see Opera die, but it doesn’t have much prospect at growing user base in its 10th incarnation.

I’ve bent myself backwards trying to use Opera, but the software doesn’t come up to par. Instead I prefer Flock social browser as first choice and Firefox as second runners up.

My main complaint with Opera is that it does not render many websites properly. For example, my blog at WordPress can’t be used because it will not recognize my username and password.

About five of my favorite web sites appear broken in Opera; however, with the rest of my browsers everything is fine. I’ve written in Opera forums, but nobody seems to care. I wrote directly to Opera and nobody answered. They’re not a very friendly company; whereas Flock and Firefox are always there to help you.

Maybe this cold attitude towards the end user, is what keeps Opera from growing. Their global market share is almost non-existent. Chrome, being a new browser just surpassed Opera grabbing one percent of the market.

I think Opera will keep on living because its performance has been exceptional in the mobile arena. I’m glad for them; since they’ve tried very hard to remain alive.

Just my 2 cents worth.

So are ad-filters you can use with Opera. I don’t see much difference between extension and separate app. Both aren’t native browser feature.

>Opera users dont have Flashblock.
We do.

>Opera is incompatible with Gmail
Works fine for me.

>Opera 9.5 is the worst Opera release ever.

Not worst but clearly not best either. It is currently in rought spot trying parts for new Opera 10 on old codebase.

>Opera is good, it is second best browser to Firefox. Unfortunately it lags behind all others.

I really can’t understand this part. :)