What's the deal with Google and Opera?
Posted Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:23:00 GMT
Opera is the best browser. It does not hang, it’s fast as lightning and its memory footprint is a fraction of the the others’. OK, there aren’t so many widgets as plugins, but given the size of the user community they’re doing quite well.
It’s annoying that a lot of Google tools don’t support Opera. Some do, but not officially. It can’t be that difficult to make Google docs support it.
Today I considered using another online document package, because I really like Opera - http://writer.zoho.com/jsp/home.jsp. What I’ll be missing though is the ease of sharing that I have with Google docs - it’s all become very integrated now and my friends are all on it, and it’s just so easy when everybody is already on it.
Google seem to have been fast enough and vocal enough with these tools to get everyone on board and achieve a bit of a vendor lock…
