loved opera for its customization options and built-in mail client. but as a standalone, the mail client isn't as good as the other free mail options. full-feed manager, user scripts, and bookmarks are also very important to me...
don't tarnish the honor of europe. consider all the people who have been involved in developing opera's own engines over 18 years. you have disregarded their efforts. transform yourself and return to presto/carakan. we don't need another copy of chromium.
don't let me do that.
so long and thanks for all the fish. for the time being, i will keep track of the development effort.
heart goes out to the developers, knowing that a *lot* of other users have reacted this way to opera next. all these changes have a "product manager intervention" feel to them, and it saddens me to see opera go down this path. how i wish opera was open-source. now i truly understand the value of open-source. thanks for a great product and vision over the years.
i think with jon tetzchner the soul of opera has left and will never come back. if you leave all the advanced features behind and with them all the long-term users, i think you will go the way of netscape.
wrong
whole poorly
release presto under the gnu please
thanks for the years, sad to see you die like this.
i have been very patient with opera. i have used it for about ten years despite having severe problems on certain sites, only because of the features it provides natively and the innovations it has brought upon the browser world. i have no reason to use opera if you're going to make it a sub-par chrome clone with fewer features and customization than before.
with this move, you cut out opera's heart. switching to webkit shouldn't mean cloning google chrome. please think before you lose the vast majority of your opera users. on the other hand, i don't see why chrome users would switch to a clone; there's no real reason. this means you have the chance to go bankrupt, but this is not what you or we want.