Hi Roy

I can't help with your problem, but I encountered similar trouble a few months back with Opera when it suddenly refused to open some banking sites that I need to use. Nothing could persuade it to work, but as you say both Firefox and IE were OK. My solution was to ditch Opera. Pity really as it seems to be a good browser and quick.

My problems seemed to start from just after an update to Opera, looks as thoutgh they shot themselves in the foot.

Keith

This is interesting, I use Opera on an XP machine at home and it works fine when accessing this and other forums.

I work I also have an XP machine which has no end of problems accessing this site and others, the main difference is my work PC accesses the net through a quite heavily filtered proxy server using the companys own network.

I wonder is it perhaps our ISP's creating problems, caching pages etc?

Roy,

Just out of curiousity, I did a check on how many people who visit our website use Opera. In persentage terms, it came out at about 2.85%.

We are in the process of updating our website. Before it goes live, one of the things we are checking is how our new site performs or reacts on different operating systems. Unfortunately, advancements in certain areas are proving to be a real pain in the a** in other areas.

Most of the Opera users who visit our current site are using v.11.64. We may or may not test our new site on this version, but the way things are going, if our site does not perform 'that well' on Opera, we might just have to 'let it not work well' on Opera. It is not a great decision, because even 2.85% is a good number of visitors (figure I cannot specify due to commercial reasons).

So, I guess that the techies of this forum must be facing similar problems, and they too have to make similar decisions.

Ketan at ARC.

Very strange, Wheeltapper! I use Opera almost exclusively and have no troubles whatsoever. I only use Firefox for online banking, because (some years ago) Opera had troubles accessing my bank, and now I didn't check it with the newer versions. Opera updates sometimes without asking permission, what I detest, but you cannot have all. Now it's v. 11.64 here too.

I much prefer Opera's page layout to any other browser I tried. To be honest,hiding the bookmarks (some versions ago) was not to my liking. Also organizing them is a hassle, but I rarely have to use this 'feature'.

Greetings, Hansrudolf

P.S. written in Opera…

Shouldn't be necessary. Check that your code meets the agreed standards here and it should work with any correctly designed browser.

Russell.

Thanks for that reminder Russell. That site is helping us deal with certain issues.