|From: Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com |Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:15:24 -0800 | |Poor, Edmund W wrote: |> While editing at 9:05 A.M. (Eastern) today, I lost all my edits, and the |> text of the article disappeared to. See user:Ed Poor |> |> What's going on? | |Could you describe what happened? What browser were you using? (By |digging through the history of your talk page, which seems to have been |the location of the problem, apparently you're using some version of |Opera.) Did you see any error messages? Mysterious flashing lights? An |odd humming noise? Burp in your net connection? _Anything_? Was there |any particular text (or symbols) that you put in that edit that did not |appear in other versions that were successfully saved? | |The server logs are a little scanty, but it looks okay -- your |submission was met with a 302 code (redirecting from the submit address |to the view-article address). Just, your submission appears to be empty... | |-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

After several disasters, I have quit using Opera for any editing at all. It seems to have problems with very long articles, like Ed's talk page, and also keeps tossing its cookies, won't log me in, loses track of my preferences, etc. A shame, because I want Opera to succeed, but the other three browsers (Omniweb, Netscape, and IE (pronounced Aieee!)) all work fine. This is on Mac OS X 10.1.5.

Tom Parmenter Ortolan88