Oracle's (no) support and Opera
With Chrome getting more bloated and freezing/crashing frequently on both my Vista and Win 7 laptops, I figured I'll try out a new browser and picked Opera . Thus far it's been a real breeze to use, which is why it surprises me how few sites actually supports it. When logging in to My Oracle Support on Opera, you'll be presented with this message: You are using an unsupported browser. The supported browsers are Internet Explorer 7 and higher, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and higher, Safari 3.1.2 and higher, and Google Chrome 1.0 or higher. Shame on you Oracle for being a technology leader and yet not making your site supported for the fourth best browser (referenced 26 Jan 2013). Plus whatever happened to the interoperability of the much lauded HTML 5? Why do we still need to design for specific, supported browsers? Anyways for those who would like to try and use Opera for these sites which don't support it (HP support is another), you may refer to the fix mentioned here: http://my...