i've already switched on my new computer. opera 12 is incompatible with windows blinds for windows 8 and is extremely buggy on my win 8 pro new desktop computer. i still use opera as my default browser on my older xp pro desktop machine. i have been using opera (although not always as the default browser) since version 4. opera has always had the finest bookmark system of all browsers of all time. that is what kept me with it and the great configurability which was the best of all the browsers. with those gone, fx is better in most respects, but fx has a lousy bookmark system compared to opera. i have a huge number of bookmarks with considerable complexity many folders deep and i will greatly miss opera's outstanding bookmark system.
in these days, good is what marketing says it is. the foolish are becoming more foolish, and the intelligent suffer. your decision on opera is merely a symptom of that and is not surprising at all. it is understood that you are pressured by the trend of dumbing down, whether directly or indirectly. one imagines that in your case it was indirect; a company needs profit to survive. one hopes that opera 12 is at least open-sourced, thereby giving hope to those who can recognize quality and appreciate it.
thank you for all the great years i could use this awesome internet suite. i'm sad and upset to see the program going in the direction it currently does, but i can't see myself using it any longer if this keeps going. i will probably use opera 12 while it's still up to date and secure enough, but opera 15 is not even remotely an option for me right now. goodbye, i'll miss presto!
very sad to have to do this, but it certainly appears that opera is targeting a different market than what it has. that may be good for opera in the long run, but bad for people who really enjoyed what used to be the best browsing experience.
i have already switched. the new opera is no longer "my" opera, the one i fell in love with so many years ago: it looks like a clone of other browsers, not the radically different software that was such a joy to use.
removing features that defined your user base is a big mistake!
see you.
i do not want to switch!
i love using opera, and it's bad enough that we're losing presto and along with that the small footprint of opera, but some features like integrated m2, the possibility to customize toolbars with extra search boxes (etc.), saving sessions, as well as the advanced bookmark manager, are absolutely essential for me in opera and without all of those features, there would be little reason for me to use opera instead of chrome, especially since opera switched to chromium.
if opera goes minimalistic like chrome and firefox, and excludes most or all of the advanced integrated features that made opera great, then there is no longer a reason to use opera for me.
please don't make me switch.