![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Opera had taken a major policy shift in that they were no longer developing their own browser independently, but had based their current design on Google Chrome, which they had adapted to look like their own browser. I elected to switch over to another account I run at Hotmail, and my Operamail accounts were no more. This arrangement continued for some years, but this year (2017) Fastmail gave notice that “Guest Accounts” would no longer be available after the end of August, and if customers wanted to continue with Fastmail, they would have to pay for the service. The original addresses at were still operating as before, but were now being handled by a company on the other side of the world. The transition was completely painless, and almost unnoticable as far as the user was concerned. For one, the Email facility was deemed to be no longer necessary, and arrangements were made for it to be taken over by another company completely – Fastmail, in Australia. Something of a record, I would say.Īt some points, there were major policy changes. 39, and I have only known 1 update to have caused a problem in all that time. The pictures were “nice to have”, but came at a cost of speed and storage requirement. As development continued new ideas were tried out, such as pictures of the websites’ front pages in ‘Speed Dial’, and subsequently discarded. In the early days, updates to Opera came thick and fast. ![]() (See below).įurthermore, Opera was very fast to implement changes in accordance with HTML and CSS specification updates. As such it was an ideal browser for people developing their own websites, and I still use the ‘Page Source’ function regularly – though now for a different purpose. In fact, I had a second account under a different name which I used mostly for my Greenpeace activities.Īs for the Opera browser itself, Opera was always ahead of the game with new ideas, such as ‘Speed Dial’, and the ‘Page Source’, (Ctrl U), in Developer tools. It was not only fast and simple to use, it was basically better than any of the other free emails on offer, such as Hotmail, and Yahoo, in my opinion. One of the things that attracted me to the Opera browser in the first place was its offer of a free email account.
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