Is Opera becoming useless?
Jan 29th, 2010 by Mark
Switching to Mac was supposed to relieve me of the nightmare crashes of Windows. Yea right. Today, I had my second crash in as many days. This one was so bad that I had to ‘hard’ stop the machine (using the power key). Unreal, very disappointing.
Now in Mac’s defense, I believe the real culprit to be Opera the Browser. With each version the browser becomes more an more unstable. It was so bad, I could no longer stand to use it on Windows.
Today Opera hung and forced a hard shutdown. This is, of course, never a good idea. It’s sad that Opera has sunk so low. It used to be a safe, secure, and reliable application. It seems however that Opera has decided to forgo those traits, and spend most of it’s time pretending to be Firefox.
It seems they don’t even read the crash reports you send them. The issues never get fixed and seem to only get worse. Sad.