Increasing number of incompatible sites and services
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ejstan last edited by
for the first time in 25+ years of Opera loyalty I'm at reasonable point to abandon its use. I've always been able to work thru the format and function, browser version walls and other other errors but in the last year and half the number of sites, internal and external, that no longer function with Opera has grown to intolerable numbers, Why?? Im a 25 year IT operations vet so i don't need any guidance on troubleshooting my installation. I am well familiar.... but the increasing reliance on plugs (which i never had to use) and other duct tape fixes has hit a peak. a few Sites that no longer work (or without jerry-rigging) with Opera but do with all other browsers from both enterprise, home and public networks on both enterprise and personal devices of diverse build and brand.
---Linkedin (authentication)
---MS Sharepoint / O365 content
---Proprietary JDK apps
---Chewy.com (authentication)
---American Express
there are numerous more i can recount and the list is growing. This is not the performance of the product that ive been stubbornly evangelizing for 3 decades..... Has something happened in the last couple years to your build models? Release mgmt? Dev expertise?--flummoxed and disappointed.
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marekduda Banned last edited by
@ejstan I've noticed the same thing. Opera used to be super reliable for me too, but lately, it's just been a headache. I've also run into issues with sites like LinkedIn and SharePoint, which work fine on literally any other browser. It's frustrating how something that used to "just work" now needs constant workarounds and plugins. Not sure what changed with their dev process, but it's definitely not the same Opera I was loyal to for years.
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HealingCross last edited by
@marekduda I don't think, it's Opera's fault. It's just that some websites notice, it's Opera and they tell: unknown or blocked browser. That happens to more and more sites with other browsers like Firefox or Safari, too. As most sites are designed to work in Google Chrome.
That's funny, because Opera is Chromium under the hood like Chrome itself. Browsers like Brave or Vivaldi already have given up to identify as themselves. They tell websites, they are Chrome. Opera still identifies as itself, yet.
You could try a user agent switcher, which allows websites to tell, you're using Chrome although you're using Opera.
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ejstan last edited by
@HealingCross316 started having to use an agent switcher last year and have tried many different ones. 50% success rate..... and that's the point...its a plug. why?? cant we browse like normal apes without browser prosthetics??
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kveach last edited by
After more than 10 years of successful use I can not get into my Amex account. Reset all toggles for no ad blocking no tracking blocking, cleared cache. All to no avail. Edge browser works.
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ejstan last edited by
Sadly, I have already left. The invasive consent I had to agree to just to get back into this forum is proof enough. Opera has become chromium Spyware. Some might even accept such if the product was broadly functional but it no longer is. Obvious poor coding and deliberate corruption of the original framework has rendered Opera effectively defunct. I've moved on to Brave and Libre Wolf. I suggest ya'll do the same. Salude.
