i used opera from 2008 to 2010, then switched to firefox for full personalization possibilities (including full themes, interface changes), and lately moved to pale moon (a firefox-based browser for windows) due to the upcoming chrome-like look and feel of the "australis" ui starting from firefox 25... despite that, i still liked opera and used it occasionally for being a different browser with its own identity like firefox; unfortunately, all of the browsers—excluding safari and internet explorer from now on—are going the chrome way, technically and/or in terms of ui...
if only opera had a bookmarks management page and/or panel...
why did you do this? l2market
if you want to create a new browser, please let the old one die in peace. the pr with the switch has disgusted me; be a man and be straightforward about what you want to do with this browser and accept the criticism. don't beat around the bush, don't lie to us, and especially don't make it seem like this is what we all wanted.
goodbye sweet prince. i can't live without mouse gestures, bookmarks, and if there is a process for each tab in my browser, it's going to kill my computer.
i liked opera as one of the last browsers that actually had a decent memory footprint, fast startup, fantastic browsing session management, and responsive ui. i despised chrome for having a terrible memory footprint and quickly becoming unresponsive as the number of open tabs went up.
slowly but surely, opera's advantages, even with presto, have been eroded away as websites make increasing use of the dom and javascript, and opera simply cannot keep up. (for example, try scrolling through the facebook news feed.) what's worse, opera's footprint (even with presto) has increased beyond that of firefox, ceteris paribus.
now, with the multi-process model imported from chromium, i'm afraid opera is much less usable for me, so i'm switching to firefox, which has arrested the growth of its memory footprint (and has succeeded in substantially reducing it over the past few years), and also has much more workable javascript and dom performance and correctness.
farewell, opera, your competence will be missed.
removing options is evil. (jon)
opera used to be the best, but now... in my opinion, the development is going in the wrong direction, so it's a shame.
why??
why can't i simply automatically clear my history/cookies & tabs when closing the browser??
why can't i manage bookmarks like opera 12??
why can't i manage site preferences like opera 12??
why is there no opera:config so that you can tweak some settings??
why are you just making a simple fork of chrome/chromium? now i'm missing essential features as mentioned above.
hey opera, if you are not listening to your users, they will simply leave you. -> i'm going to firefox & pale moon x64.
i have used opera for most of my online life. now, you are ruining what opera has been all this time. i'm saddened by this and you are making me seriously think of switching browsers for the first time.