Because of small simple fact of life: They suck.

When everything works fine on safari, ill just test all other browsers from IE 6 to safari 2.0.4, and all linux versions .

So i doubt u will ever find an error in one of my pages

Unfortunately nomatter what you do there is no test like running a document through a browser from a server to see its true compatability. Even though Opera and Firefox both want and push hard for the W3C web standards, niether can render 100% all the time.

I think it is image.

In Europe, where Opera Software ASA is based tastes, culture, and points of view can be very diffrent from North America (or the rest of the world for that matter). You say Opera to many Europeans and you get this image of grandure, class, art, and history. You ask most North Americans about what comes to mind and you usually get negative conotations; old, stuffy, boring, fat people singing, and music in languages you don’t understand. Ooooh, doesn’t that sound cool?

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Navigator, Konqueror, and even Flock have good strong sounding names, but Opera is like the Canadian Beaver compaired to Russia’s Bear, England’s Bulldog, and the American Eagle. Not bad, just not as strong sounding. ( I am Canadian,,, I can say this without being insulting)

Even their merchandising falls flat over here. They just don’t get that that helps make your community grow. The Opera Community was trying to get a Spread Firefox like movement going before the Fx Community did, but it kept being undermined by Opera’s own promotions. I am begining to think that if I ever want to see one, I have to make it myself.

PS
as for all the problems all you Firefox Users are having, I am ironically not getting any of them with 3. Then again I only had 2 memory leaks with my Firefox 2 and I had almost 20 Addons installed. Hope you guys have better luck.

I personally think Opera would get more market share as soon as there would also be some sort of Add-On functionality.

It’s because I simply hate to surf without my favorite add-ons and one specific FF add-on – Adblock Plus – that I always use Firefox.

(But apart from that I would still be using Firefox, because of the nice UI and the awesomeness factor and such :p )

I look at some people demoing features of Fx 3 and with 1 or two exceptions I have been using all these features in Opera so I was thinking ‘so… thats not new… damnit just use Opera.” Then I remembered the design Ideas that Opera has ‘borrowed’ from Fx over the years that I was excited for because I could now do it in my browser! (I only wish that they would come up with some sort of Add-On architecture too, maybe as a module or plug in).

If you enjoy Firefox 3 then I suggest you try some of the plugins modeled after Opera Functionalities, and use Opera as you secondary browser instead of IE.

After all in the long run, aren’t we both trying to do the same things in the browser world… standards, security, speed and stability, and building a community of fellow users?

also, does anyone else think FF3 is slower than FF2?

Firefox ROCKS!

Loving it!