Opera had implemented zooming better than other browsers, it was nice to have built-in mouse gestures, and I used tell people, use Opera and you don't have to bother chasing addons to make it work, it's got all you need out of the box. I can't do that any more. But the killer omission is displaying cached images only. Without the option to display only cached images, Opera is pointless.
Can't really say "farewell", as I will not abandon hope for Opera unless the company gets dissolved and the codebase gets deleted.
I am not going to switch i am going to wait for features like bookmarks, link, site preferences, tab management. When these features are implemented i will start using opera as my main browser again.
I think Opera was the best browser of all time but I don't like Opera 15 at all
Extensions programed by hobbyists will never, ever replace the smooth, fast, easy to use and most importantly, interrogated features that were once a basic part of using Opera. And screw you if you think otherwise.
I'll stay with opera 12 till it work
My dear Opera, you have been much more than computer software to me. You have been a friend for the last 9 years.
You've been my browsing companion and (apart from the old days of IE6), almost exclusively the only browser I've trusted to see the web through - there are thousands of things that I have come to know only through you. You were there when I was first learning computer programming, when I created my first email, when I found out I got into university, when I applied my registration forms, when I searched to see whether I had passed the exams, when I started buying things online, when I created my first social network profiles, when I tested my first web pages, when I first exchanged messages with people that changed my life. Sure, any browser could have done all these, but you did them for me, and that's important in my book. You've been a great friend.
And you've always kept and synchronized faithfully and transparently my bookmarks, my crazy notes, my numerous customized search strings. You've always kept me months (to say the least) ahead of people using other browsers. In this age where so many things happen in the cloud with a web interface, you've practically been my OS-within-the-OS (and you've been a mighty good one). When old Live Messenger wouldn't initiate file transfers, I could ask you to fire up a web server and send files through it - seriously, how cool was that? You've allowed me to customize everything about you, to have every option I found important at my fingertips, no matter how trivial or sophisticated. Your tools have allowed me to debug some of the most crazy JavaScript situations. You've been a great partner.
I could say so much more, but let's not get carried away from what's important - and what's important is that I want to THANK YOU, buddy, from the bottom of my heart, for these 9 years of an amazing Internet experience.
You made me do this.
Also "Must have": opera:cache
Version 15 have killed Opera