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Don't discriminate against the Opera browser

Target: Terry Semel, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo! Inc.
Sponsor: Mircea Craciun, none
  • Signatures: 14
  • Goal: 100,000
  • Deadline: 3-31-2006
Yahoo feeding bad code to Opera browser makes the browser look badly coded.

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Number Date Prefix Name Am I an Opera user?
15 8:59 pm PDT, May 21   Anonymous No.
14 8:16 pm PDT, May 25 Mr. brian p they arnt sending all the code becuase its most likely spyware/adware/toolbars/ads and other bs. my mother uses her computer strictly for aol and yahoo, and has avast, zone alarm, and spyware doctor, yet still had issues. i rebuilt the computer, tried to access yahoo games from opera, and no surpirse, didnt work. opera is the most secure browser out, it cant recieve all the code/is rejecting code for a reason --becuase its mallicious.
13 6:04 pm PST, Dec 12   Anonymous Yahoo is run by socialist NWO'ists anyways glad to make them my homepage in my opera browser ;)
12 10:31 am PDT, Aug 1 Mr. Philip D I use Opera exclusively unless sites don't run in it. If yahoo insists on forcing me to use IE I'd simply just use my gmail account as the mail account now.
10 2:28 pm PST, Mar 19 Mr. Anonymous I am an Opera 9 user
9 6:08 am PST, Mar 10   Osman Santos I'm Opera 9 and Yahoo Mail user, please listen your costumers!!!!
8 3:45 pm PST, Mar 8 Mr. Alexandru Gradeanu Opera 9 user.
7 11:33 am PST, Feb 23   Regimantas Gugis I am an Opera 9 user !
6 10:41 am PST, Dec 29 Mr. Idan Adar Opera is a major player online, it is time to beef up the support.
5 9:33 am PST, Dec 29 Mr. Daniel Goldman I would petition site to support alternative browsers in general including the Opera browser.
4 8:02 am PST, Dec 29 Mr. Ivailo Minkov Aways...till the end of the world or when a better browser comes out.
3 7:55 am PST, Dec 29 Mr. Guille Nuņez I've been an opera user from long time ago, I am a web developer myself, and I just can not understand how an internet company like yours is so unprofessional developing websites, you only need to follow the W3C specs, nothing more.
2 7:40 am PST, Dec 29 Mr. luke cops Of course
1 7:15 am PST, Dec 29 Mr. Mircea Craciun yes
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Don't discriminate against the Opera browser

After some issues appeared when using Yahoo (Web) Email with opera and being ignored by the Yahoo Customer Care, I decided to do some research and to my unpleasent surprise I found quite some places that talk about how Yahoo is breaking Opera browser. Being a software engineer made it easy for me to convince myself of this. I will now try to convince all of you out there that this is indeed happening.



This is "the thing" that outlines probably the best way this issue: http://operawatch.blogspot.com/2005/11/yahoo-discriminating-against-opera.html

You will find more of such reports regarding issues related to yahoo services that have the same root problem in opera community: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/group.dml?id=45961

I have made some more or less random selections:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=112448&page=1#comment1319356

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=112623&t=1134570256&page=1

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=114049 (problem number 4)

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=112448

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=116604

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=116604

you can find much more from the opera community search: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/search.dml?term=yahoo&id=



And the worse thing is that Yahoo Customer Care, the place where you would expect a human (not a machine/software/etc) to respond to your emails, is actually a big, bad joke: template and generated responses make the law there. No chance of getting to a competent human.



This is why I want to show everbody that:

- yes, there is a problem with yahoo software when it comes to opera and it's generally yahoos fault

- yes, we want a way to communicate to yahoo the problems we find and we expect to communicate to humans and not some programs/scripts.



These are the informations regarding the bug report I have sent to Yahoo Customer Care:

[info]

Mail-Id: 1132822330-1703

Type of feedback: Bug Report

Problem area: Managing and storing messages

Error message: Incorrect behavior

How often this occurs: Always

Browser: Opera/8.51 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

REMOTE_ADDR: 82.77.x.y

REMOTE_HOST: unknown

Date Originated: Thursday November 24, 2005 - 00:52:10

[/info]



Why do I have to change my browser just to make use of a function that worked before? Before someone wants to answer that question, he/she should first read this: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=61946 and http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=36940 . Opera is pretty good and stable so the main question is: why try to break it? Why try to make it look as being full of bugs?



Will this ever come to an end?

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