am I missing something with Opera???

[rdlaing]

Any OPERA surfers users want to help out a noob?

I'm surfing a lot with Opera and much prefer it over netscape or microsoft. HOWEVER, there are often sites that won't let me log in with a password, open links, post on forums, check web email, etc with opera. I have to jump over to netscape to get to that page.

I have tried all kinds of configurations with cookies and javascript etc. I searched through the Opera tech support and couldn't get an answer.

Is this just a limitation of Opera, that some sites don't "like" it and you can't get in???

It's making me lose my commitment to this great alternative browser.

Any help appreciated.

[lil Jimmie]

Don't be so quick to blame or give up on the browser, many site are only desinged for them to work with IE and nothing else. I prefer to use Mozilla, but there are those times that I have to knock the dust of IE and use it.
Have you tried Mozilla?

[glc]

Did you install the Java version? If not, you need to download the Sun Java Runtime Environment.

[Force Flow]

The only limitations I've noticed with Opera 5 is that it doesn't print a selection on a web page. On Opera 5 & 6, I have trouble with Java Applets, and sorting/deleting mail on my hotmail account. And yes, I did download the java verson. Just not everything works in opera. As for logging in, I've found that it never times out, while in IE, it does.

[rdlaing]

My Opera preferences were set to "use java" but I didn't have the java version of Opera installed. Installed it and now I seem to be having a lot more success getting into sites. Only problem is that sometimes I can't download with Opera on some sites.

Thanks for the help; I'm really glad to continue to be using Opera; it rocks.