opera has always been a browser for power users, but you will lose those if you remove all power features. replacing the browser engine seems like a good thing, though; opera next is very fast indeed. but that's the only positive thing i can say about it... very sad.
i hope there will be more old functions and customization. no hate.
disgusting
i really dislike the empty feeling of chrome, and if opera is going to be just another version of that, then all i can say is that it was nice to have the functionality and innovations in opera. but if a lot of that gets discarded and it becomes a chromium/blink-based browser with silly gimmicks instead of useful features, i see no reason to keep using opera. it's a shame that good things come to an end, and i can't even happily use opera 12.15 now, as i'm sure there will be unpatched vulnerabilities that make its use unwise!
please make it right with 15.x.
thanks for the big f.u.!! i spent 9 years coping with horrible multi-daily occurring site/script incompatibilities/errors of your tiny market share browser because of the importance of the features above. i really hope your company folds up because by ditching all your loyal "customers" it's pretty much what you are begging for!
if i wanted chrome, i would use it. i want opera with all the features - if the "new" opera is such a downgrade, there won't be any users left (as opera was always for the nerdier crowd, who knows what they are doing!)
no one cares which engine you are using... everyone wants the old-time opera looks and features... that's it.
it was great while it lasted.
what the hell were the developers thinking? *throws stones*
it was a fun time with opera, and i generally like the looks of opera 15. but what use is a nice exterior if i can't properly work with the browser anymore because it lacks bookmarks, rocker gestures, tab stacking, custom searches, and session? as a research tool, this browser is useless. sad but true. i'll keep opera on my system out of nostalgia, but i won't use it on a regular basis anymore.