people like opera for its features, not because it's chrome.
in the future, release browsers more frequently and pay special attention to regressions. the last few years have been an endless downhill slide in quality, with some completely baffling bugs, like ignoring css files that do not have an extension. my prediction for the future of opera is: this rendering engine change will not help you. opera will not break 5% global market share in the next 5 years. finally: if opera is no different from other browsers, what reason is there for using opera?
it was a good run. the web may never be the same. :(
you went from standing out to becoming one of many. in 1 update. congrats.
opera developers are stupid.
put old features back. this is just an exercise in skinning chrome at the moment.
pity.
it's been a great time. thanks to all the developers who came up with and developed the most amazing features. thanks for keeping opera ahead of the competition all these years. thanks jon and geir. thanks to the amazingly knowledgeable community. thanks for opera 7.54u2 and its developers, the browser i used the most of any version. thanks for making me feel special by having a browser that could do things that others couldn't. thanks for saving me hundreds of hours due to increased productivity. thanks for the smoothest mouse gestures ever. i don't like you for ditching features, whoever made that decision (directly or indirectly as a result of the engine transition). i don't like you for destroying the smoothness, responsiveness, and configurability of opera's gui (directly or indirectly as a result of the engine transition). i take all of my criticism back if features and gui customizability and smoothness get restored.