I have often wondered why Opera 3 and 4 never appear on counters. Even Extreme tracking which records all visits since the counter was set up does not have early Opera versions listed; even tough you feel that for long established sites someone must have arrived on Opera 3 or 4.
Recently, I have been playing with Haiku OS, an OS inspired by BeOS, and although only released as a first alpha it is excellent, and shows the potential to become an established operating system.
In 2000 Opera released Opera 3.62 for BeOS, which I installed onto Haiku to see how counters reported Opera 3. Unfortunately, not one counter managed to count a visit by Opera 3, and only one recored Opera, without a version:
* Most counters failed to load with Opera 3, and if counter does not load theres no counting:
ShinyStat
BraveNet
BelStat
SiteMeter
StatCounter
GoStats
* Four counters appeared using Opera 3.62, but two failed to record as a result:
Extreme Tracking
Motigo
* Leaving just two who registered something:
Onestat - Internet Explorer 5
24Log - Identified Opera, but no version number.
I retried with the settings as "Spoof Entirely as Mozilla" but this site failed to load.
Thursday 21 January 2010
Saturday 16 January 2010
Opera Private Tab, Not So Private
Added 03/08/2010: I have tested the latest versions of Opera (10.60) on FreeBSD and Linux, Opera have now resolved this issue and Private Tab is not leaving a cookie record anymore.
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha is available, and I have enjoyed playing with it on a Linux machine. It works very well, but there is one thing which I find odd, the introduction of "private tab" and "private window". When Internet Explorer 8 introduced this concept I was sceptical - how can this be better than a Linux live CD? With Firefox also including this feature, it became inevitable that Opera would have to have it.
What I find strange is that when you close your "private tab" the cookies still remain! Hardly private.
I still believe the Linux live CD to be a better option, even with the drawback that most which include Opera are still on version 9.
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha is available, and I have enjoyed playing with it on a Linux machine. It works very well, but there is one thing which I find odd, the introduction of "private tab" and "private window". When Internet Explorer 8 introduced this concept I was sceptical - how can this be better than a Linux live CD? With Firefox also including this feature, it became inevitable that Opera would have to have it.
What I find strange is that when you close your "private tab" the cookies still remain! Hardly private.
I still believe the Linux live CD to be a better option, even with the drawback that most which include Opera are still on version 9.
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