you guys stood out for being a browser for power users, a browser that could take a beating handling hundreds of tabs with ease. a browser that had an incredibly small memory and space footprint, that could start instantly, even though you had a wide range of features. a browser that was compact, powerful and highly customizable and ahead of its time.
opera was never just another browser. it was its own class of software, in my opinion. opera was the perfect "internet suite": feature rich and yet not bloatware. everything was optional. you're now removing all our power of customization. you're now removing all the features and innovations and controls we learned to love and rely on throughout the years. these are part of our core web experience.
and now, claiming to be improving "the core web experience", you are getting rid of all of it, just to become a chrome front end. this is sickening. you're ruining the one good thing you guys have at hand.
i'm an avid fan of opera and loyal user. i have been for years. thanks to opera, i was able to experience the internet when all i had was a very crappy computer that could barely run other browsers (a pentium 133 mhz with 16 mb of ram, from 1997 to 2002!). it played a huge role in my early internet life. it made internet worth it. and thanks to that early step, i was able to become a developer, a programmer, a fluent speaker of english, and achieve a lot of the things i'm proud and grateful for today. opera played an undeniable role in helping me with that, as it was the portal that allowed me to explore the vastness of the internet with the little resources i had available.
and now, it seems like opera will turn its back on me. as crazy as it sounds, it's heartbreaking. it really is. i never thought i'd get that from a company.
opera, please, remember that you guys were always on the frontier of the idea of what the web experience is and should be. don't stop being the example to the rest of the browsers.
listen to your users, not managers.
thanks for the 220% value on the shares, at least.
ffs, what's the point? we already have chrome. it wasn't the icon that made me use opera, it was the unique features.
i will try to stay with the "old opera" as long as possible, and after that ... bye, bye.
why?
"a bad word that i can't say – that starts with f" you!
i miss the old opera!
make the old opera open source!
this was a poor business move. they should have prioritized users over profit.
i'll come back when old features return to opera or when new irresistible features are introduced. opera used to differentiate itself from other major browsers with so many nice little features. not that i used all of them, but no other browser had all the features i needed. other users would say the same, only that the feature sets they needed aren't exactly the same as mine.