Re:Opera launches Opera Mail web app
by stanleydrew on Saturday April 09, 2011 @05:36PM
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I'm wondering what you mean when you say that Google have done their best to thwart Opera users from using Gmail. Is this commonly accepted as true?
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Gmail and other services have run very poorly in the past - and when Google isn't recommending Opera users to use a supported or modern browser, they outright block the user string of the browser directly or indirectly[1]. I don't know if Opera's JS execution was just so abysmal that Google Reader and Gmail couldn't run at all in their first years, or what went on.
I had some more bookmarks on this, but I don't know where they are at the moment. Maybe I've misplaced them, or Opera sync botched something. I'll see if I can find some of them tomorrow.
[1]: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2010/09/08/google-instant
"when Google isn't recommending Opera users to use a supported or modern browser, they outright block the user string of the browser directly or indirectly"
Opera can mask itself as another browser. I've used this feature to circumvent some Google annoyances aimed at Opera.