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I'm glad! Opera is so underrated.

I can tell you work for Microsoft and maybe trying to be helpful
but I know exactly why someone including myself would look for
more control of their browser.

Someone on one of the forums I communicate on is for a project
writing an open source browser. That's what I need, because even
in Firefox I've had wicked problems with Flashplayer circumventing
the block to S.YTIMG.COM and turning on my webcam and microphone
and streaming it to there, so I disconnected those devices, but that
only slowed down the browser looking for them.

I don't even have to take courses in C type languages to figure out
how to write or remove lines of code that do EVIL THINGS that I
told the computer not to do. Windows NEVER does what anyone
tells it to do, except Microsoft and the virus writers, and the damn
EULA makes it a federal offense to FIX THE CODE and there will
be BSoDs until the day when not one Windows survives to fix
the others, and corporate idiots who bought the crap are going
to watch the company sink because Microsoft makes messes
and takes all the money and none of the responsibility for all
the bugs. I see the signs... National airport BSoD day, Toyota,
recently a really ominous one but it was not as obvious as those
so I can't remember exactly what it was, but all the things like
this add up to "THE SKY IS BSoDing!! !".

Consider this advance "conspiracy theory". You're the guard on
9/11 that said, go back into the buildings, we've SECURED the area,
and then Microsoft PULLS Windows with an update, and the gov
PULLS the internet, and some people think that they can p0wn the
world that way, but haven't learned the lesson from WTC which
is cursed and desolate and less profitable than before the Controlled
Destruction. The long arm of the law of unintended consequences
says that after the global BSoD, everything will start working LESS
for those who did this, than for those who it is being done to.

I didn't listen to that guard...

I don't work for Microsoft.

I was present on 9/11. Your conspiracy theories don't make any sense, and neither does your grammar or ability to form coherent sentences.

I would find it difficult to believe MS might some day shut down the world -- I am still waiting for the sky bomb that can allegedly destroy all transistors -- but I would also find it difficult to believe all (if any) computers in the White House are set for automatic updates. And, I cannot even begin to imagine the endless challenges of writing code to do everything everyone wants without it also occasionally doing something maybe even nobody wants. So while I do tend to see Windows as a virus taking over my machines, I also like having the ability to just drag-and-drop to a burner since I do not know one CD format from another.

Ok, If you say so, I'm sorry then.
I just wondered why you want to stop people from choosing other browsers.

So was I present at 9/11.
Apparently I am socially stressed now. Others are not understanding me either.
I did label that conspiracy theory as one.
Things that can happen might happen, that's all.

Another happy Opera user here.

Can anybody tell me how to view my HotMail with Opera? And, I do not mean to add HotMail *to* Opera. I just want to go the the site and read my mail.

When I go to WindowsLive HotMail, my Inbox shows up for a split second ... then I have nothing but a white page. I have tried changing some settings, but to no avail. It appears WindowsLive is not letting Opera "holds the page", or something like that.

What can I do?!

I've had this problem with FireFox. It only does it some of the time rather than all the time. I just work around it.

Ah, okay. It is not that I *must* go there that way. I do have WinLive installed. But, sometimes even that does not work and going directly to HotMail will.

Go figure, eh?!

In any case, I now have IE8 turned off on my notebook and Opera is default, but then I had to also install FireFox so I could get in at OfficeLive ... and now I am going to disable IE8 on this machine and see what happens with TurboTax and Opera ... and maybe I will need FireFox here on the side also.

It's not a smooth experience, but I experience no show stopper either.

What is you browser javascript status shown on this page? It's Opera's way to work around non-standard pages, you'll need to enable it to use hotmail.

It is enabled both here and there, and I have been looking into its settings after turning off all its options and enabling the error-report box so I can try the options individually and see what happens.