Opera Software Opera 8.0 Review

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dsilvia's Review of Opera Software Opera 8.0

13th May 2005

Overall Rating

0.5 stars
    Good Points

    Fast.
    Efficent use of system resources.


    Bad Points

    Email client not what it's cracked up to be.
    Not worth USD 39.


    General Comments

    OperaMail is still in the stone age as far as its interface goes! No HTML composition. Cannot import complete data from common existing email clients (E.G. Netscape/Mozilla). Cannot save emails without 3rd party software. And more...

    OperaMail composition is very rudimentary, with only a 70's-80's interface (yes, I mean 70's, it's just crude text manipulation, not even decent line/word wrap)

    Add to this an arcane and ill-defined method of 'classifying' mails ('filters'??) to obviate the need of folders. Give users (virtual) folders anyway.. they don't need to know they don't actually exist. It's a cleaner categorizing interface. After all folders/directories on operating systems are virtual.

    Granted, Opera may be a good browser, but it's got a long way to go to be serious about today's email.

    For your USD 39, you get no ads, and 6 months of Premium Webmail. Oh, and you can submit Premium Support requests. Not that it does much good, they just affirm that they know nothing more than the so-called 'Help' (actually just a link to a limited FAQ and user forums).

    It's curious how they can be set up so much like an open software organization (i.e., Mozilla), and still have the nerve to have a .com address and charge you money!

    If I'd known all this before I purchased Opera... But then, why should they advertise such obvious weaknesses? I purchased for value added, not just another browser!

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