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BROWSER COMPATIBILTY: OPERA NEEDS SERIOUS ATTENTION!

Oct 15, 2011 1:23PM PDT
http://news.cnet.com/ - Terrible trying to navigate up and down CNET's pages.
This new makeover of the CNET looks pretty good, but trying to scroll up or down in Opera 11.50 DRAGS the browser down fast big time. All the perky speed that was there before the new layout change is gone! Do the webmasters know that this new change makes navigating with Opera 11.50 act like the browser is on dial-up? Try scrolling up and down any news section of this site and you'll see what I mean. Almost like the browser's memory is overloaded or something. CNET works perfectly fine with IE9.

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I noticed it too...
Oct 16, 2011 11:34PM PDT

I rarely use Opera, but I just tried it and experienced the same issue on a relatively fast (quad-core i7 with 8GB RAM and Radeon 6750) computer. It's fine in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE, however. It's not that jerky for me, but still annoying, especially since it seems to happen on every page. Hopefully there's something they can do about that.

John

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BROWSER COMPATIBILTY: OPERA NEEDS SERIOUS ATTENTION!
Oct 29, 2011 11:56AM PDT

Thanks for the reply.
Would someone at CNET.com confirm this issue please?
Site works great with IE9... but is unusable with Opera 11.xx.

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BROWSER COMPATIBILTY: OPERA NEEDS SERIOUS ATTENTION!
Oct 29, 2011 12:00PM PDT

I meant to say that I'd like someone at CNET.com who RE-DESIGNED the site... to reply as to why CNET.com now appears to be optimized for IE9 and not Opera 11.xx. What kind of cross platform testing was done here? Not all of us use IE9.

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For what it's worth...
Nov 2, 2011 11:14PM PDT

It does not seem to be as significant in Opera when Smooth Scrolling is disabled (Menu->Settings->Preferences->Advanced->Browsing).

With Opera having less than 3% of the browser market, I doubt Opera's a significant focus, but hopefully this can still be addressed.

John