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?