Tech Myths: Opera (the web browser)

Opera displays webpages incorrectly. Well, guess it's a giant bug! Gonna go back to Google–

No, no, no. Many web developers don't care about Opera. THEY JUST DON'T CARE. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox are the most popular browsers. So if something's wrong, they say, "IE's wrong? Whoops, gotta change that! Chrome got that right. Wait, is that one correct? Nope, I gotta add -webkit-. IE still got it right. Firefox... all fine!" or something like that. WAIT, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT SAFARI EITHER!?

NVM.

Opera was the first browser with tabs

Yeah, I know this doesn't have ANYTHING to do with performance. But I'm just saying Opera was second to introduce tabs after InternetWorks in 1994. Opera's preview release with tabs was released in 1996, and the actual non-beta release was made in 2000.

Opera is as bad as ****

I don't think so. Opera is very awesome and whoever said that probably didn't try Opera, just cross-browser testing or something like that. You know what, OPERA IS PRETTY AWESOME FOR WINDOWS, MAC, AND LINUX.

Opera is as secure as the shut mouse hole that the cat obviously cannot see (yeah, that didn't make sense)

Wrong. Secunia reports Opera has 1 unpatched vulnerability as of... oh, 2009. Clearly Opera has stayed on top of its security, while Internet Explorer has not (AAAH!), Firefox has not either done very well (YIKES), and Safari has been doing pretty well, but not as good as Opera. Actually, never mind. Safari hasn't patched any out of the 3. In 2009, here are the number of issues compared to the highest they ever had before 2009.

Internet Explorer's highest: 41. In 2009: 40.
Firefox's highest: 13. In 2009: 6. (not 1 yet?)
Safari's highest: 3. In 2009: 3. (WHAT?)
Opera's highest: 8. In 2009: 1. (yay)

So yeah...