Opera

I recently wrote to the (hopefully) nice people at Opera, concerning a bug that has been with the browser on every machine (at least 200, conservative guess) I have ever installed it on, both my own, and customer’s machines. It is something that may or may not be a bug, but if not a bug, [...]

Ryan Naraine, who writes for ZDNet on security matters, again has given us all reasons to ponder why we use Microsoft products. A new record of 28 patches was achieved yesterday, and most are due to the use of Office and Internet Explorer.
It makes me wonder why anyone would want to use Office, as it [...]

One of the truisms I grew up with was “Figures don’t lie, but any liar can figure”. Over the years, I have found it was applicable in many areas of life, and now I am finding that, more than ever before, it works well in the area of claims for use by software authors.
With the [...]

For the past 10 years, I’ve tended to use MSN as the homepage for all my browsers, no matter which browser, or operating system.  I became used to it after a time of using MSN dial up service, and did not really look around to change. I have looked at the others available over the [...]

Once again, standardized testing shows that Opera is the most standards compliant browser, beating the rest of the field by a significant, though not huge, margin.
This morning, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes releases the results of his tests, showing that Opera is number one in compliance, while coming in a close 3rd in overall speed. There have been [...]