From Opera 12 to 20...a giant leap back for mankind
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A Former User last edited by
My title is absolutely not sarcastic.
Yeah! Right, and Neil Amstrong didn't actually land on the moon — it was all filmed in a studio.
"A Step Too Far for Me", implying my inadequacy.
What it implies is not inadequacy, but humility.
“Hey guys, I realise that you have to rebuild all of the old features from scratch in the New Opera version, but it's not yet good enough for me to use yet. Please keep add as many features as you can, then I will try to get used to it, and may grow to like it.”
That's a whole lot better than insulting comments like tteksystems made, which you think articulated the problem well: "This is pure arrogance. 1 year and so many upgrades later and I cannot find one good reason to embrace anything on the new Opera. It really stinks."
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advolc last edited by
I just tried Opera 20 for Windows and I'm also very disappointed. Chrome engine in Opera? THAT'S AN INSULT TO ALL REAL OPERA USERS. I always used Opera because I had everything I couldn't expect from any other web browsers.
Sorry Opera, I'm looking for alternative web browser now. Bye, bye!
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A Former User last edited by
@pesala
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yes, I can.You need to have your potty mouth cleaned out with soap and water. It's very sad that you can't express yourself civilly.
He's well known for being abusive towards anyone who criticises Opera whether warrants or not
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duke533 last edited by
o20 is still missing most of the features we liked,
and already has a lot of new features we don't care about.Give us back o12 !!!
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Deleted User last edited by
You're not going to get back your old Opera so here's a thought: since it was never taken away... USE IT! The last time I checked, Opera 12.16 was still usable or are you incapable of using the older version as well? Security patches are still being applied (as far as I know) so it's perfectly safe to use it. And here's another piece of information for you: install Opera 20 alongside the older version so that you can keep an eye on its development.
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A Former User last edited by
@colej2000
He's well known for being abusive towards anyone who criticises Opera whether warrants or not
If you mean me, I am well-known for being critical of the potty-mouthed losers and whiners who troll these forums, and who cannot make any constructive criticism without profanity, shouting, or ranting.
Polite users who need some help getting to grips with changes new versions will always get at least some help from me, even if it's just a link to a previous thread, or advice to search first for previous answers before posting.
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christoph142 last edited by
yes, I can.
@withme: No you can't!
I deleted your insult. Watch your tone or you'll get banned!
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A Former User last edited by
Now here's a fact for you: Opera Presto is dead. The team that developed it is largely gone or been re-assigned.
Just to clarify: It's still the same team. Of course, people will join and leave over time, but people who used to work on Presto are now working on Blink, and some even on low-end stuff on desktop or mobile. -
awzx last edited by
but people who used to work on Presto are now working on Blink,
Maybe someone is still there but as far as I recall they announced that most of the staff that used to be developing Presto is released or something like that.
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ender-go last edited by
This may be petty but I refuse to let it go that pesala thinks the title of this thread is sarcastic.
The title is: "From Opera 12 to 20...a giant leap back for mankind". Please notice the word "back". You may not be reading the 11 word title sufficiently. Either that, or you may not be working with a correct definition of sarcasm. I know you don't like 700 word posts but 11 words...
And leushino, thank you for the advice on continuing to use 12. I am doing exactly that. In fact, the only tab I use in 20 is for this forum. I just /love/ how fast and secure it manages Forums.Opera.com.
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zzzxtreme last edited by
come on opera, give us paid version that has all the old features. those "old" features are ahead of many other browsers
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diablo4711 last edited by
I agree with the TE, because i miss the side-panel, the favs and i used Opera for a long time, because i could check my Mails without having a separate Program and the new Stash is totally useless, because i have hundreds of Links ...
If this is the future for Opera i will switch back to another Browser ...
For all the Fans of the old Opera please think about to undo those changes or make an Plugin-System in the new Opera, so all could download the Side-Panel, the Mail-Client, the "Old-Style-Favs" and all other stuff, that makes Opera the great Browser it was before ...
Regards
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stng last edited by
For all the Fans of the old Opera please think about to undo those changes or make an Plugin-System in the new Opera, so all could download the Side-Panel, the Mail-Client, the "Old-Style-Favs" and all other stuff, that makes Opera the great Browser it was before ...
This is awful concept without PROPER integration in UI.
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A Former User last edited by
but people who used to work on Presto are now working on Blink,
Maybe someone is still there but as far as I recall they announced that most of the staff that used to be developing Presto is released or something like that.
No, that was not the case. There were some false rumors being spread though various forums and tech sites, but that's always going to happen when people don't bother to fact-check.IIRC, about 90 people left in total, but only half (or less) of those were engineers (QA and developers). There were several hundred engineers at Opera at the time.
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awzx last edited by
There were some false rumors being spread though various forums and tech sites, but that's always going to happen when people don't bother to fact-check.
Opera team, who else?
I'm sure they never said such thing.
Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, it's been quite some time now since I heard that, I may be confusing something. Nevertheless, this "rumor" appears to be pretty much plausible to me at the given moment, taking into account the current state of Opera-desktop and how slowly it is being developed/evolved, and finally seeing how different new Opera-Blink and old Opera-Presto are. Yep, sounds true enough to me.
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blackbird71 last edited byI'm sure they never said such thing.
Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, it's been quite some time now since I heard that, I may be confusing something. Nevertheless, this "rumor" appears to be pretty much plausible to me at the given moment, taking into account the current state of Opera-desktop and how slowly it is being developed/evolved, and finally seeing how different new Opera-Blink and old Opera-Presto are. Yep, sounds true enough to me.
Of course, anyone is free to believe whatever they want. Some folks still believe the earth is flat, because it sounds true enough to them. But I think @haavard would have a much better grasp of the reality of the Opera staffing situation than most of the rest of us.
In any case, the real point is that whether the Presto developers have left Opera or been reassigned to Blink, the development pace of coding around a completely new (to them) engine set, with all the new (to them) constraints that will necessarily involve, is not nearly the same thing as working with a familiar engine set whose coding you've already developed yourself, line by line, over a dozen or more years. The learning curve will be outrageously steep for some time... and that is at least a major part of what we're seeing.
Beyond that, no two engine sets will offer the same ease of access/interface/control in many areas... that's part of why they're different. One set may force either inherent limitations in what can be done, or else require numbing complexity to accomplish something that might have been easy with a different engine set. The decision to make major, abrupt replacement of a browser's engines is akin to jumping off a cliff with a parachute... the chute will probably open, but you'll drop quite a ways before it safely does. That's why it's not a decision to be taken lightly - and, for better or worse, I don't believe it was.
