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Re:Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha) by andrewl-hn on Friday November 19, 2010 @06:30AM (#1921122)
Google preemptively tries to kick Opera out of the browser world. Many new services come up with dedicated code to block Opera claiming that this browser can't handle them. I can't tell you how many times I changed Opera's UA string to Firefox and those services start working. Magic! <sarcasm

Not testing for a particular browser is fine (and truth be told Opera just works in 99.99% of the time). Blocking it just because one can is pure evil!

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Re:Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha) by Shorel on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:23AM (#1921610)
Of course, Opera is the only browser that has challenged Chrome claims of the faster browser ever (in production builds, that's it).

> Blocking it just because one can is pure evil!

It means they value market share over standards. Very evil indeed.

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