Look, if you use Opera then that's awesome. You have your reasons. It's got a lot of users, and that's also great.
But developers reasonably make decisions about which browsers to optimize for and which ones NOT to optimize for. They're not insulting you for your browser choice: they're just being reasonable about how they spend their time.
We should always be open to new things so I won't sit here and say "you should just use Chrome because it's awesome and incredibly fast", and if they're differentiated enough they'll become standards everyone supports. Opera is not. And you're not a martyr.
First, it's Google we're talking about here, not some cash starved startup.
Second, you seem to have not completely read my post. It was more about the "update" and "upgrade" language. How would people on Linux feel if they tried to download a program and and it told them to "upgrade" to Windows to get it working?
>"We should always be open to new things so I won't sit here and say "you should just use Chrome because it's awesome and incredibly fast"
You should try Opera, it is awesome and incredibly fast :)
>and if they're differentiated enough they'll become standards everyone supports. Opera is not.
What is not differentiated enough and Opera is not what?
Opera is pretty good at following standards, it's no IE for sure.
Again, it's okay if web developers don't have the time to test and support Opera, just don't tell its users to update or upgrade to other browsers. Even "Best viewed in Internet Explorer" is less condescending We didn't get rid of that and Flash to end up back again in this browser sniffing mess.
But developers reasonably make decisions about which browsers to optimize for and which ones NOT to optimize for. They're not insulting you for your browser choice: they're just being reasonable about how they spend their time.
We should always be open to new things so I won't sit here and say "you should just use Chrome because it's awesome and incredibly fast", and if they're differentiated enough they'll become standards everyone supports. Opera is not. And you're not a martyr.