it pains me to see this happen to what was arguably the best browser on the market at one time. i spent hours on the phone with providers asking them to make their pages standards-compliant so that they would work with opera, but version 12 and all of its troubles with facebook and google may have killed you. i understand the business desire and the thinking that it's easier to just give in than to fix what you built. i am just sorry that it's led to the end of a great product. any chance of making it open source (presto and such) so that people who like it can make it work and advance in the future?
i understand what you're trying to do. changing the rendering engine to devote more development to features is fine. switching to webkit (the engine) was certainly not a bad move, but that didn't mean you had to switch to chromium.
maxthon is a fine example of how you can build a webkit browser from scratch without getting stuck within the constraints of chromium.
rest in peace.
it's your software, so i suppose you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for how it used to be.
too bad
rip opera browser
1996-2013
was driven to suicide by its own peers
your users will miss you.
thanks to opera software for years of my internet experience with this browser. i won't forget how google destroyed the future of opera. please choose another name for your chromium-based project. the history of "opera" deserves a happier ending.
you should have more faith in your users.
rest in peace.
the truckload of features in a very small installer has been my most favorite thing about opera. since i've been using it for a very long time, this "change of direction" that opera has decided to take affects me as a user tremendously! i cannot stick with opera in its current state, because i can no longer do my activities on the internet like i used to. this naturally leads me to switching to another browser that offers features that i like.