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Why can't you support Opera?

Asked by Graion Dilach

I have numerously read on minor oddities regarding Opera that we doesn't support that, and so issue is fixed. I ask you, why?

I am an Opera user for years and if there wouldn't be that null scripting bug, then I would be happy. I don't see the point why should Opera be completely broken on a page which aims to be a global bugtracker.

AFAIK, Opera has less bugs than IE and more features than Firefox or Chrome. If I am forced to get another browser for a damned search on a bugtracker I should maintain, then at least I want to know why.

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) said : 		#1

Hi, at present Opera isn't on the list of our target browsers, given what works for Chromium, which is on our list works, and opera usually works on what chromium works on. There isn't at present enough resources to test all browsers, however we do welcome any volunteer who wishes to get more involved in the maintenance of opera support.

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Graion Dilach (graiondilach) said : 		#2

Dammit, I'm not a web developer, but thanks for the reply. What are the list of aimed-to-support browsers?

Tho I doubt the Chromium & Opera stuff, because ATM Opera adds a null for the search page's link from somewhere and that's what makes me mad. But ah well, new links and no searches for a while.

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) said : 		#3

This is the up to date page with browsers we support. https://dev.launchpad.net/GradedBrowserSupport hope that helps

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Graion Dilach (graiondilach) said : 		#4

Not much, Firefox 3.6 ran like a haywire on my PC with it's constant "hanging out in memory during closure"-bug that it alone lost my preference.

After then, since this new era of upping version numbers into the skies, and all of a sudden I hear about Firefox 6 or 7... that lost my trust.

As a Win user I doubt Chromium would be a good choice for me. Just downgrade Opera to C-grade in your benchmark. And thanks for the info.