Opera and Google services: how long?

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Opera

Today, when I logged into Google Plus, I saw this crap: Google’s discrimination against Opera got a little, so the poet is interested in the following question: where could I read official information and competent comments on why Opera, despite the fundamental support of all technologies and even work subject to a change in user agent, did Google disable a huge part of its services? In particular, I am very interested in how to bring the main menu of Google services into the same form as in all other browsers? Those. on the left is the +You link, on the right is a box with G+ notifications and something else. Version: 11.60 Build: 1185 Platform: Linux System: i686, 3.0.0-14-generic (Ubuntu 11.10), clean install.

Answer 1

Perhaps someone will say that I am a shit layout designer / developer and, to some extent, he will be right.
But Opera is a buggy imitation (this is my personal opinion), with which there are more problems than with IE 7,8,9. And if in the case of IE crutches are possible in most cases, there is no such possibility in the opera.
Problems, for the most part, are solvable. But think about it - Google's main income is America and Europe, and there the opera takes a very small number of percent. Should I bother with special support?
After all, in principle, everything works. And Google honestly warns about possible problems.
Opera was once a promising and progressive browser, but now I do not consider it as such. The last two versions (10-11) all they did was kill the JS engine and change 3!!! design times while other browsers worked on improving their core features.
Not for nothing that the co-founder left the company.
PS I sincerely apologize if I offended anyone, but this is how I see reality. Forgive me fanatics. I sat on the opera from 9.27 to 10.6, as on the main browser. Now I just check the performance of sites in it.

Answer 2

yes, Google is a serious company, and instead of supporting an unpopular browser, they honestly warn that there may be bugs.

Answer 3

This is probably why:
The share of Opera in the global browser market is significantly inferior to the shares of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and Safari, and, according to various sources, is from 2 to 4% (c) wiki

Answer 4

Often, people have the User Agent in Opera configured as IE.

Answer 5

Well, you ... HTML5, open web, cross-platform, we check the capabilities of the browser, not its name, the corporation of kindness and all that ... And you are here with your opera.

Answer 6

And in general, the source of your kindred indignation :)