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Anonymous
January 11, 2010
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Why doesn't this forum support Opera? You even use it in your own software, Adobe!

  • January 11, 2010
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It's really pissing me off that Adobe chooses to use a forum frontend that does not support the Opera browser. Makes me have to go out of my save habitat, log all in again with a forgotten password through a browser I don't like, for no apparent reason because there's plenty of forums out there that don't have fanboy browser issues.

Here's the fun thing. Ever wonder how Opera got magically installed on your OSX Mac? Because from Creative Suite 3 and up, it is included with the Adobe software.

This isn't right, Adobe guys. You should either pay Jive Software a bunch of money to support Opera, or switch to other forum software that has no browser issues. There's plenty of free ones.

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    Anonymous
    January 12, 2010

    All I can say is.. it must be a monumental event. Or they don't take kindly to their own forums.

    It must be hard to migrate a forum where crazy html is supported making people able to mess with anything.

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    Anonymous
    January 11, 2010

    Hmm. That's even stranger. So the Mac version works. The Win32 version does not...

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    January 11, 2010

    That is Curious!

    Do you have JavaScript turned on? This forum is based heavily on Javascript.  I seem to recall in other previous thread the is a problem with  These forums and Opera.

    MichaelKazlow
    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    January 12, 2010

    (Please start reading at the bottom of this post!)

    (still, my point remains, a different choice of software on a forum from a big company such as Adobe makes Opera (Win32) users more happy!)

    This takes some getting used to but I can type in notepad first and paste it here later, next time

    Only problem is that I cannot create a new line of text below the last line, it appears above it, so you have to start reading at the bottom of my post (I am serious, this makes no sense but I am not joking )

    I did try the "Identify As" Internet Explorer options and there was no difference, but your choice of words (masquerade) made me try the "Mask as" Internet Explorer option instead, and now the editor shows!

    Hey thanks!


    Adobe doesn't own Jive, it uses their software to run the forum. Adobe doesn't even run the latest version of Jive. As a user of Jive's software, it cannot dictate to Jive any more than you can dictate how Adobe creates its software. Adobe decided that Jive's forum software was the best choice it could make given other considerations that we are not privy to. Should it have chosen poorer software, just because it supported Opera---I don't think so.

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    January 11, 2010

    Check your version number against the version number show in the attached image.

    Software Companies frequently throw in incentive software and the for get they update every month or two Like they themselves do.

    I have the very version shown  that image version 10.

    And it works as well as SeaMonkey, Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino, iCab, and Safari. (Which is not necessarily saying a lot, there are lots bugs to be fixed in the forums.)

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    Anonymous
    January 11, 2010

    Ah, well I am actually browsing on my Windows machine here. And I am totally uptodate. I run Opera 10.10 and Windows 7. And I can read and everything, but try to open a discussion or make a reply, and you'll find that you cannot type in the message editor with Opera. At all. The editor is an unselectable line in Opera 10.10. As it was in Opera 9.5.

    The Jive Software site themselves, the guys who made this forum, say that Opera is not supported and will not be supported any time soon.

    So since Adobe bought the support of Opera for whatever reason, they should in my opinion also support Opera on their most important forums.

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    January 11, 2010

    That's odd the Mac version works just fine.

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