R1chard - 6:10 pm on Jun 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

Well, I'm not a paid-up user, but I do have Opera 7.5 on one W2K machine, and Opera 5.0 on another NT4 machine. I bypassed 6.0 and 7.0, and although I'm always aware of new developments, I can't always be bothered to upgrade. Come to think of it, I may also have a version of Op 3.62 somewhere!

I use Opera 7.5 a fair amount, but my main browser is Moz Firefox. I have a collection of obscure and old browsers for testing purposes (Amaya, Arachne, OffByOne...) The way I see it, the more browsers I can test with, the better. Even between Opera versions, there are differences in the way it handles code, so it's always good to know that something you've just validated works with a myriad of test software. Comforting, even. And sometimes it makes you realize just how good those Norwegian programmers are that they got the compliance so quickly in an old browser!

Even though I visit the Opera website about once a month, I guess one update a year is enough for me (esp considering the standards aren't changing that frequently), so I wouldn't necessarily expect users to upgrade every few months.