Anyone using Opera?

[cusideabelincoln]

I love Opera as my primary browser, but I do come across a few sites will just plain not work correctly. Sadly, these AT forums seem to be added to my "doesn't work" list. If anyone uses it, you should know that even though some sites may not initially work you can get them to work bye editing the site preferences and changing how the site recognizes the browser. However I tried all the options for the forums and I've ran into the same issues.

The first problem I noticed, after signing up for the forums, is that I will not be signed in whenever I click on a topic. However, if I click back onto the various forums to browse the different topics I will be recognized as being logged in.

Secondly, I've noticed that Opera doesn't seem to be refreshing the topics correctly. I will get an "older version" of the thread and won't see the latest replies.

Lastly, I made some profile updates in FF and Opera does not show them in various threads I've posted on nor in my profile settings.

These are strange and sad problems. Opera's caching features and probably overall design just doesn't like these forums. I'm extremely disappointed because I love Opera's features, the mouse and wheel gestures (which are better than FF add-ons), and Opera definitely renders web pages faster on my machines.

So, does anyone use Opera on these forums? Or do you experience similar problems?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Last time I used Opera (a year ago maybe), The AT forums did not work either.

 

[mc866]

I did for a while when the 9.5 beta came out, I really like the look and feel but did have some issues with a few sites like gmail, this forum, my wordpress page. So I've pretty much went back to firefox exclusively again. Did you try using the compatibility function in opera where you can run it as IE or FF?

 

[Scooby Doo]

Sorry, haven't had a problem like this with opera and AT.

 

[NeoV]

no problems

 

[Pretty Cool]

Browser is actually caching pages, so they load faster. Of course it does not help if you are always looking at pre-login pages. Anyway, there should be a setting somewhere in Opera for the issue. Looks like it is in Tools/Preferences/History. Play around with the settings there & see if it helps.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

I know Opera caches pages, and this feature is one of the reasons why I love it so much. Not only does it typically render new web pages quicker, but the back and forward functions are faster than anything.

I probably should have noted that the problems I'm experiencing are under Windows XP Home. I haven't tried using Opera on this site under Vista, yet. And like I did mention in my first post, I tried all the compatibility. I just changed some of the cached pages settings, so I'll see if that fixes the problem.

 

[mooseracing]

Originally posted by: Scooby Doo
Sorry, haven't had a problem like this with opera and AT.

It's the only thing I browse these forums in since I have been here and not a single issue on my end.

 

[ockky]

Originally posted by: mooseracing

Originally posted by: Scooby Doo
Sorry, haven't had a problem like this with opera and AT.

It's the only thing I browse these forums in since I have been here and not a single issue on my end.

ditto

 

[xtknight]

When you first load Opera it loads cached versions of your sites (or at least this forum). Just refresh it if you want to be sure. I've had no other issues. Opera runs great and manages windows/UI a lot faster than Firefox on my Linux installation.

I mean when you load Opera after you have a saved session, it may load the cached versions of the sites you had open instead of refreshing them all.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Thanks for the tips, I believe I solved my problem. Even though I did try to refresh the page and even resorted to clicking on the forum links instead of using the back button, I was having issues.

However I changed the "Check if cache paged is updated on the server" -> "Check Documents" option to "Always". For some reason it was only set to 3 hours on the machine I was using at the time, which explained why the forums did show updated content if I took a break.

 

[AleleVanuatu]

This forum is flaky even on Firefox 2, let alone Opera. I take it that this is the case because Anand is very windows-centric.

 

[Ichigo]

Originally posted by: AleleVanuatu
This forum is flaky even on Firefox 2, let alone Opera. I take it that this is the case because Anand is very windows-centric.

Does that even make sense in your head?

 

[Nizology]

Originally posted by: AleleVanuatu
This forum is flaky even on Firefox 2, let alone Opera. I take it that this is the case because Anand is very windows-centric.

And some examples of this flakiness are....?

 

[AleleVanuatu]

Simply put, rendering errors. The thread titles are buggy, especially when you increase font-size. Then again I blame FuseTalk, and Anand, for choosing it.