Thank You
Edith Gran
This is meant to be a simple thank you note.
Like many fellow Opera users, I've been glued to the...keyboard (?), and
reading news about the upcoming kestrel and beyond. I was literally giddy
with excitement last Friday as I saw that the 'Desktop team' rss-feed was
updated.
Opera Software announced that the first kestrel build,
pre-view/pre-tech/pre-mature, would be available for testing. I was of
course thoroughly disappointed when I saw that we were treated to yet
another Merlin update, no matter how well needed it might be.
After getting over my disappointment though, I did realize I'm extremely
thankful that Opera exists at all.
In the wake of my disappointment I managed to wipe out my entire Opera
install. Wand-passwords, blocked site lists and endless little tweaks were
gone beyond repair. Now I've used Opera since version 2.x and I've never
managed to do this, so I was left with my jaw hanging open in dismay. I
regularly juggle about 3-4 different installs, and I've never even been
close to wiping out something useful, which is why I was silly enough not
to even backup wand.dat. (Online profiles please save me!)
For a few days I didn't really have much time, so I was stuck using a more
or less unmodified Firefox. Ugh. I finally bit the bullet and installed a
fresh copy and started the tweaking. Without actually spending any
significant amount of time on the tweaking, within a few days I more or
less had my good old Opera back. Most of the stuff I wanted to do was done
quite intuitively, some I suppose because I'm very used to Opera's way of
doing things, and the rest I just nudged along as I worked my way through
my usual online path.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Opera has come a very long way over
the years. Not only is the desktop browser closer than ever to being a
flawless replacement for the other two browsers, something which once
you've realized what's involved is quite the awesome feat, but it's also
rock solid and quite easily adaptable to whatever style of operation you
might prefer.
It's of course far from perfect and I complain left and right on details I
want to change, but overall I'm so incredibly satisfied that I have Opera
and all the hundreds of little things I can't even bear to imagine having
to do without or installing and maintaining heaps of third party extension
of varying quality and functionality.
Thank you Opera for surviving! Thank you for agressively persuing the
handheld market which I suspect might have helped you survive economically
when desktop browsing might not have. Thank you for getting deals with
Nintendo which have both helped you hone your innovation and reach
multitudes of new users. Thank you for unifying the browser experience on
all platforms and working towards a single, adaptable, experience on all
platforms available to modern man (STAN: Or woman).
Simply, thank you for existing, innovating and delivering an online
experience comparable to none.
Tim Altman
wrote:
>This is meant to be a simple thank you note.
Edith:
You're welcome! And thank you for taking the time to let us know what
our product means to you.
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Tim Altman
Desktop QA
Opera Software
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Ed Jay
>On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:17:49 +0200, "Edith Gran" <no...@nowhere.not>
>wrote:
>
>>This is meant to be a simple thank you note.
>
>Edith:
>
>You're welcome! And thank you for taking the time to let us know what
>our product means to you.
You're probably already aware that without purposely doing so, Edith was
speaking for many, many of we happy Opera fans.
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Leon Fisk
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>On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:16:30 -0700, Ed Jay wrote:
>
>> Tim Altman scribed:
>>
>>>On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:17:49 +0200, "Edith Gran" <no...@nowhere.not>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>This is meant to be a simple thank you note.
>>>
>>>Edith:
>>>
>>>You're welcome! And thank you for taking the time to let us know what
>>>our product means to you.
>>
>> You're probably already aware that without purposely doing so, Edith was
>> speaking for many, many of we happy Opera fans.
>
>Me 2. I've been using Opera since version 4, and would have been quite
>happy to keep paying for it.
Same here and have been using it since the late beta
versions in the 2.x line on Win 3.1x. Back then they didn't
have the news groups set up yet and only had a clunky
webforum. Ahh the good old days... (smirk).
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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI
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Tim Altman
Thank you all!