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A comment on the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

thanks for the update David – Andre, on September 26, 2008 15:47

A comment on the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Hi Andre,
Text documents in Google Docs should already work in Opera, and spreadsheet support is coming soon. Presentation support will be a little bit tricker, because there are some bugs in Opera that we need to work around. We do let Opera users view embedded presentations now, though. – David Bloom, on September 06, 2008 15:22

Andre replied on September 03, 2008 14:58 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Hey David, I am back supporting this thread as I am a little frustrated that the google docs still dont work. You helped me with the gmail problem. any idea when Google will fully suport google docs?

David Bloom replied on August 14, 2008 12:50 to the problem "No hotmail pics" in Google:

We don't actually make Hotmail, Microsoft does. You might want to reask your question at http://getsatisfaction.com/microsoft

A comment on the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

It might help to go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Toolbars
Then, uncheck "Double-click text to display context menu"
This option is on by default and normally doesn't cause problems, but I think turning it off might help in your case. – David Bloom, on August 02, 2008 20:16

Monseigneur Nick replied on August 02, 2008 12:08 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

SWEET! Coloured labels (And Old Snakey! :D) in Opera at last :D

Oleg Melnychuk replied on August 01, 2008 12:33 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

That's not just a question of an overall market share. For example, here in Ukraine and in Russia Opera browser has more than 15-20 per cent of the market share. So it's like you're not fully supporting 15-20% of customers from these countries.

David Bloom marked one of Andre's replies in Google as useful. Andre replied to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others".

Andre replied on August 01, 2008 01:48 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

single clicking and double clicking do the same. but http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1 works fine for me. i will bookmark this url now and use it in future. thanks a lot!!!!

A comment on the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Try single-clicking instead of double-clicking?
Does this affect http://mail.google.com/?ui=1 too? – David Bloom, on August 01, 2008 01:45

Andre replied on August 01, 2008 01:43 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

wow thanks a lot that did the job. really happy thanks for an outstanding support.

now i have one more problem in the updated version of gmail makes one more problem... if i click on an email
instead of the email opening i get the right click option box (but i am not right clicking only trying to open the email.

i use a regular lenovo windows box....

A comment on the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> Blocked Content
Make sure that "about:blank" is not blocked. Unblocking it should cause Gmail to work again.

about:blank shouldn't be blockable, so this is an Opera bug. Opera is going to fix this in 9.52. – David Bloom, on August 01, 2008 01:30

Andre replied on August 01, 2008 01:26 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Hi David, thanks a lot for asking. I feel a little bit special now. Gmail does not load at all. I have attached a screenshot. It will load in in basic HTML.

A comment on the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

What doesn't work? Does it not load, or does a specific feature not work? – David Bloom, on July 31, 2008 16:53

Andre replied on July 31, 2008 16:09 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

@David, thanks a lot for taking the time to post here and I hope Google will start spending more money on Opera compability.

Gmail's new version does not work for my opera browser / opera worked so well before with gmail (only since 9.5) but now it is broken (for me)

David Bloom replied on July 16, 2008 13:27 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Status update!

Gmail's new version is currently being rolled out to Opera users. So, you should have access to new features (such as colored labels) now or really soon :-)

Denis Zenkovich replied on July 06, 2008 13:55 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Hi David,
Well I think pretty high of myslef as JS developer :)
But I myself, do not provide much attention for compatibility with Opera browser, well, as you just mentioned it is low market share :) And only 9.5 introduced developer tools, so now Opera has a chanse to earn some credit being dev's browser.

But isn't Goggle a big company enough to provide that? :) It's not one man war as of me with projects I'm involved in :)

Thanks for you comment, I'll try out tips that you posted, this colored labels is one of the features I miss a lot :)

David Bloom replied on July 05, 2008 14:52 to the problem "Opera browser support in Docs, Wiki, Gmail and others" in Google:

Hi Dennis,

I'm also an Opera user, and I spend a lot of my time here at Google trying to address Opera compatibility issues. Here's some of the progress that we have made on the services you mentioned:

* Editing pages on Google Sites doesn't work very well in Opera. For example, it is impossible to apply toolbar commands to selected text. The good news is that a fix for this, and several other issues, is currently in the pipeline.
* Opera 9.5 fixed a lot of issues that affected Google Docs. There are still some issues remaining, but the most annoying bugs (such as long lines not wrapping) have been fixed. If you haven't upgraded to 9.5 yet, be sure to do so!
* Gmail currently serves the "old version" UI to Opera and IE6. The old version is missing a lot of nice features from the "new version" UI, such as faster performance and colored labels. We've been working on making the new version work better in Opera. You can try it out by going to http://mail.google.com/?nocheckbrowser (but it might not work perfectly).

The main roadblock to Opera support at Google is Opera's low market share (about 0.7% according to Net Applications). Firefox and IE get a lot more support because many more people use them. So, tell your friends to switch to the Opera browser and Google services :-)

Also, if you are good at Javascript, why not take matters into your own hands? http://www.google.com/jobs ;-)