opera has always had its problems with various sites, but i'd prefer that over being just another chrome... firefox, here i come...
it's a shame that it had to come to this. opera was the only browser that had style. it allowed us, the users, to do whatever we wanted to do with it. the customization offered in opera couldn't be surpassed by any other browser (except maybe firefox with extensions). now opera has become a chrome clone without even bookmarks or basic ui customization. the only thing they kept in the new version is the speed dial, but even that's mediocre compared to the old one. opera seems unlikely to change right now since it arrived in a beta version. maybe in a couple of years from now when opera brings back all the previous features, it'll take my place as my browser, but right now i feel that the closest thing to opera is seamonkey/firefox with extensions.
at least open source the engine.
it's really a shame to see so many great features get dropped. opera used to be the browser of innovation, but now there is little pioneering spirit from the company. i will continue using my current version until i see any reason to upgrade, as much as i agree with the benefits of changing the rendering engine.
the death of opera is like losing an old friend few people understand, but one that you always fought for. opera 15 isn't worthy of a fight.
why did you move from a rich browser environment designed and built far from the reach of the nsa to a core from one of the nine companies known to be cooperating with them? why not call the new version "back doors are us"?
i'm sad you've decided to take this route.
it's understandable why you'd switch to the webkit rendering engine. compatibility among other things has been a pretty major issue in the past year as newer specifications have come out.
that said, you offered huge amounts of customization that no other browser offers. the workflow i can achieve with opera is easily twice as efficient as something like chrome or firefox that offer limited mouse/keyboard shortcut options and are also lacking proper speed dial implementations.
as it stands i'm going to have to start writing a bunch of autohotkey scripts to emulate opera workflow in something like chrome.
here's hoping to most of the features making their way back into opera over the coming months! :d
no first-class support for linux is absolutely ridiculous these days.