Support Opera Please

Question

In Opera it seems that by default, the option is selected to
"Identify as MSIE 6.0",
what that suggests to me is that Opera might be a more common
browser than it seems at first glance.
Problem 1. Trying to upgrade to Flash Player 8, it just says
"Success! You upgraded to Flash Player 7", great...
Problem 2. There doesn't seem to be any "redistributable"
download, which was my next thing to attempt to find.
Come on, people, is it that hard to let me download an actual
file to my desktop/whatever and install it that way?
Problem 3. I don't think flash player 7 plays the flash video
media files correctly under Opera
Problem 4. I hope you're getting paid a LOT from Yahoo! to
even suggest people install their spyware-ridden bs along with
something that's reasonable and useful such as flash... If it's not
in the millions I think Adobe/Macromedia is shooting themselves in
the foot by having ANY association with ANY software that says
Yahoo! on it Anywhere lol, just lost a few reputation points in my
book, anyway.
I went from "Wow Adobe and Macromedia are one now, sweet, I
should buy some stock!" directly to "Oh gawd, what is this Yahoo
mess, someone's making some bad decisions over there, better stay
away from that sock."

Answer 1

Chunksachum wrote:
> In Opera it seems that by default, the option is
selected to "Identify as MSIE
> 6.0",
> what that suggests to me is that Opera might be a more
common browser than it
> seems at first glance.
>
> Problem 1. Trying to upgrade to Flash Player 8, it just
says "Success! You
> upgraded to Flash Player 7", great...
>
> Problem 2. There doesn't seem to be any
"redistributable" download, which was
> my next thing to attempt to find.
> Come on, people, is it that hard to let me download an
actual file to my
> desktop/whatever and install it that way?
no it's not hard, it is on their website
But, the player distribution require licensing which is done
instantly.
Once you submit the form you will get automated reply with
links for
ALL kind of installers. Regular installation via browser
works for most
or say majority of the people, what you can check by
searching the forum,
you the only post talking about Opera issue in a period of
last 6 months
what indicates that it will be strictly a problem on your
end.
There are, on the same page where the download is, links to
troubleshooting
tech notes. Try to browse few, should be able to fix your
problem.
> Problem 3. I don't think flash player 7 plays the flash
video media files
> correctly under Opera
sorry, can't tell, never used Opera.
> Problem 4. I hope you're getting paid a LOT from Yahoo!
to even suggest
> people install their spyware-ridden bs along with
something that's reasonable
> and useful such as flash... If it's not in the millions
I think
> Adobe/Macromedia is shooting themselves in the foot by
having ANY association
> with ANY software that says Yahoo! on it Anywhere lol,
just lost a few
> reputation points in my book, anyway.
Same here, don't like the idea. But, keep in mind, we are
dealing with huge
corporate world, where big brothers help each other to suck
us dry.
The their defense the bar do not install by default, you need
to consent to it.
Of course, most of the people do not pay attention and get
it. Done that myself
Regards
Urami
Happy New Year guys - all the best there is in the 2006
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