Well, my infatuation with the Opera browser was short lived. I have to admit that I was becoming a fan – it was fast fast fast and it’s unique approach to the user interface suited me perfectly. I was very happy – until it started crashing. Even the crashes were elegant, with a very neat reporting and recovering mechanism. It usually worked – until it didn’t. In it’s final hour, it went into a crash and recover loop. I stopped it, restarted, rebooted – even did a clean download and re-install – all to no avail. I have greater than average tolerance for misbehaving software, and I might have tolerated some of this, but now I can’t get it to run at all.
So as Opera lies in a smoking ruin, I’ve turned back to the old workhorse Firefox. I took a brief spin with Chrome and Internet Explorer and quickly reminded myself why I didn’t care for them.
It’s a shame about Opera – it had such great potential!
