What percentage of people are adapting well to the new Opera?
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blackbird71 last edited by... Now, I would think the highest priority for something very soon has to be importing bookmarks from third party browsers. I mean, that's a first step, before anything else significant. I believe you once said also it ought to be their highest priority. I'd be worried if we don't see that by maybe Opera 24, or even 23 (would be even nicer). Maybe the Opera Next people have heard something. What's hard to gauge is whether they're having problems with the importing feature. Another urgent feature, I would think is making the icon bar readable for Windows 8.1 people. (Although Firefox has a similar problem with thier icon bar for Windows 7 people: I can barely see mine, it's so tiny). ...
And I agree, it should. But it should have been critical at the outset, as well. Creating a new browser based on a strategy of attracting users from other browsers naturally implies those users need a simple way to import their site-links into Opera. That was one of the earliest, and now continuing, negative comments from users. It is failures just like that to respond in a timely way with a patch for, or even to include at the outset, such an important user element that fuels some of the user reluctance to believe that Opera isn't simply wandering down a path of their own, oblivious to voiced user concerns.
OT: Regarding the FF icon bar, perhaps I'm not looking at the same bar you're referring to or understanding what you mean, but mine appears just fine to me... on this 23" monitorm with a full-screen display, the icons on the menu bar are 0.2" high each. Likewise for the navigation bar, though I do use Classic Theme Restorer extension to make them that small on that toolbar (I prefer small icons myself, so maybe that's the reason I'm not understanding what you mean).
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lem729 last edited by
And I agree, it should. But it should have been critical at the outset, as well. Creating a new browser based on a strategy of attracting users from other browsers naturally implies those users need a simple way to import their site-links into Opera. That was one of the earliest, and now continuing, negative comments from users. It is failures just like that to respond in a timely way with a patch for, or even to include at the outset, such an important user element that fuels some of the user reluctance to believe that Opera isn't simply wandering down a path of their own, oblivious to voiced user concerns.
They're not losing money. And the new desktop has some wonderful features. I think they know what they're doing, but their time frame is theirs. Not yours, nor the old Presto users, desperate for the old features. They have to deal with mobile browsers also -- of different design. Presumably -- unless they've hired more -- they have to have divided staff resources. I'm certain they're committed to mobile, and I have to think it's good strategy to have a strong desktop browser, because it sells Opera mobile, and vice versa.
OT: Regarding the FF icon bar, perhaps I'm not looking at the same bar you're referring to or understanding what you mean, but mine appears just fine to me... on this 23" monitorm with a full-screen display, the icons on the menu bar are 0.2" high each. Likewise for the navigation bar, though I do use Classic Theme Restorer extension to make them that small on that toolbar (I prefer small icons myself, so maybe that's the reason I'm not understanding what you mean).
They're for me in Windows 7, maybe 2/3 the size of the Opera icons on the Opera 22 icon bar. I've had a hard time figuring out what they relate to and sometimes you have co click on them. I have, I, think, a 21 inch display, that is hd, or something like that. I don't know if Classic Theme Restorer would do anything for the icon bar. Also, I looked at it -- I believe -- it seemed complicated.
Haha, I think -- as I ponder this -- it's the dark theme with dark icons (Sunset Over Water). I changed to the Firefox Default theme with the light blue background and even though the icons are smaller, that's better. It makes a difference. It's amazing how slow I was to pick up on this. Thanks for saying the icons looked okay for you.
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myopera23 last edited by
I found Opera 15/16 to be completely unusable. So I reverted to 12.x, and am currently using 12.7, which still has compatibility issues with some of my fave websites(financial ones in particular). So I was using Opera and FF for different websites.
I am currently evaluating 22, and so far I am loving it. A massive increase in usability and compatibility.
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alvarezbjm last edited by
I HATE THE NEW (BAD!) OPERA. YES, I AM HOSTILE. They threw away the opera product I used the most and packaged a chromium clone in the same bag. You can safely assume I am NOT adapting well to the new opera, I could use Google Chrome as well, no big difference
Has anybody cared for building a list of missing features? Because every time I come to forums I feel like to compiling one, only there is really no point for me to use the bad opera long enough as to GROK the depth of the hole, so the list would be rather incomplete.
And, on the bottom line: the bad opera, IN MY EXPERIENCE, not yours, has many site compatibility issues, just as the original one had.
Missing features:
- opera:cache (compressed and encrypted now, REALLY????)
- opera:config
- built in content blocking
- site preferences
- The way now pages AND forms are saved in recent history (if you accidentally leave the page, the post draft is not lost most of times)
It would have been cheaper for opera inc to a link redirect in opera download to google chrome download, and then tell users to develop plugins to google chrome.
I think I am not the only one leaving when opera 12 becomes non functional
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lem729 last edited by admin
It's possible, @alvarezbjm, to be so obsessed about features, one misses the forest for the trees. I am happy though they you still enjoy your Opera browser -- vers. 12. As for the new "faster," Opera, the one -- say what you will -- but far better able to access websites, to support html 5 video, and with other advanced features, like the superb new Speed Dial (with folders). But this is a browser designed to be made whole, via extension. So you need to look for some of what you want in the Opera add-on store, or the Chrome extension store (you can use a Chrome extension, as long as you have an Opera extension, like "Download Chrome Extension," or "Extension Source Viewer." Hmmm, for your content blocker, AdBlock Plus is terrific, https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/opera-adblock/?display=ar and there are other good choices too. I have no problem blocking content in Opera. I even add the Disconnect extension https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/disconnect/?display=en (which supplements the content blocking of Ad Block, Plus. The result is outstanding. And then there's extension, Disconnect Search, https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/disconnect-search/?display=en (which conceals your search, protecting your privacy) and https everywhere (which encrypts the web adding to your security), https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/https-everywhere/?display=en. These kind of extensions (because there are others I could cite here too) are not available with Opera 12.
On your concern about forms, you might try this extension, "Local Pass Store," which attempts to recapture the old Opera wand feature that people liked.
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/local-pass-store/?display=en
You could also get something like LastPast, https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/lastpass/?display=en
or Roboform Light. https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/roboform-lite/?display=enNow Opera 20 IS different from Chrome. See again, because perhaps you missed, in not fully reading this thread, lol, Rafaelluik's informative post -- https://forums.opera.com/topic/3465/just-wondering-why-you-use-the-current-opera-over-other-browsers/10 Having the same browser engine, doesn't make it the same thing. It's like having to do something that follows a convention -- let's say in music. Everyone in the 18th century in large part adhered to conventions about how to compose music, but there was still Mozart. There's plenty of room for individual excellence, even if something is shared (be it a composing convention, or with regard to browsing, something as important as an engine). A lot can be done with the same engine -- that is different. Take a look at Coast for Ipad, or Opera Mini (for Ipad). They stand out (are distinctive, creative) from other browsers on the Ipad, even though they share the same engine. No one who looks at them would be unable to see how different they are from the other browsers for the Ipad.
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A Former User last edited by
okay,okay,okay. I have now decided to go cold turkey and move from 12.17 to latest opera, for a month.
I have noticed certain loading problems on sites, upgrade browser notification, drag files to web site etc.moved email accounts to other program
extensions as followed;
xmarks for bookmarks, ouch what a mess.
neater bookmarks and chrookmarks.
chromehistory.
ez zoom.
xtranslate.
lastpass.
add bookmark.here goes.
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lem729 last edited by
@bobman
Best wishes. Don't hesitate to post if you have any problems, are looking for ideas, etc.
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A Former User last edited by
that was fast..any extension that let me search bookmarks?
chrookmarks is not working, same with minimal bookmarksneater bookmarks works slowly, but I think the popup windows is too small and missing the tree structure\main folder.
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lem729 last edited by
Well, I use Chrookmarks, and sometimes Neater Bookmarks, so I checked them both, and the search was fine for me. I click on the icon for whichever extension I'm testing, and then a vertical folder display comes up (showing your bookmarks). On top of the folder display, there was a search bar. I could search for a bookmark folder name, or subfolder name and they both found it easily. Neater Bookmarks was faster for me. Now I've always felt Neater Bookmarks is faster, but there's one kink it has, that the developer has told me he will try to fix, but hasn't yet (at least last I checked). If you click on a folder that has three bookmarked items, and you want to open all three in different tabs, you right click on the first one, and choose to open it in a new tab, but Neater Bookmarks then closes. You have to open it again to find the second item. Chrookmarks stays open, so it's easier to put the three items in separate tabs. Now it you have some imported bookmarks, that you're trying to cut and paste to your main bookmarks, Neater Bookmarks lets you do this, while Chrookmarks doesn't do well with that task. Can't seem with it to right click on the Imported bookmark and cut it, so I can paste it.
So I keep them both. I have for the moment, Chrookmarks deactivated, but if I need to work on cutting and pasting my imported bookmarks, I activate it. If the one feature nit I referenced at the beginning of this post is fixed, I'd go back to Neater Bookmarks as my main Bookmarks Manager extension, because it's faster than Chrookmarks.
There are certainly other Bookmark Manager Extensions. I just haven't tried them, as either of these two generally are enough for me.
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Deleted User last edited by
I recently switched back to opera. I used chrome and firefox for a while but got annoyed with both of them. I still love some of opera's features, that the new opera still has (speed dial mainly, yes I tried many speed dial addons for firefox and chrome, and they all sucked :p )
I can understand why users of opera 12 are frustrated, but I think a lot of people forget that the new opera is basically a total re-write, and has only been in development for a year or so. Its completely unrealistic to think that it would already have as many features as opera 12, which is a very old browser that gained many features over many, many years of development. The new opera is coming along pretty well, people need to have realistic expectations. Currently the new opera is still a bit barebones, but it does already have features to differentiate it from other browsers (speed dial, stash, discover, tab preview, opera turbo), and I'm sure there will be more features to come (afaik they are currently working on improving bookmarks and implementing sync).
Calling it a 'chrome clone' is disingenuous. It uses chromium under the hood, but a clone of google chrome it is not.
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Deleted User last edited by
"And, on the bottom line: the bad opera, IN MY EXPERIENCE, not yours, has many site compatibility issues, just as the original one had."
The new opera literally uses the same rendering engine as chrome. 99.99% of the time it works with any site chrome does. I've yet to run into nay compatibility issues here.
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lem729 last edited by
The engine is a similarity between Chrome and Opera, but two users with the same engine can do highly different things. And one can be innovative and creative, the other less so, or can evolve in different ways, which also have merit. Still, Opera with it's Speed Dial with folders -- you're right there, viperafk -- (why. that's the feature, for which I can forgive a helluva lot, it's so good), and the other innovations -- Discover, Stash, Turbo Mode, is doing a great job creating a unique and enjoyable browser. I just tried the new Opera mini for Ipad yesterday and have continued playing with it today -- it also gives you a Speed Dial with folders, a Discover and a Turbo mode, and more. Though using a different engine, webkit, it's not unlike the desktop Opera, underscoring that it's not the engine that gives a browser the distinctive look. Opera creates a similar look (with similar features) in the Ipad and desktop Opera, with two different engines.
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A Former User last edited by
well, I found popup my bookmark extension, that seems to be the best I have tried so far. Also feedly notifier and google calendar extension seems to be fine.
With opera 12 I often had to reload pages to make them display correctly, not encountered that so far. Also the wand feature would not work on login on some sites, lastpass seems to work so far.
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al-khwarizmi last edited by
Personally, after almost a year, I haven't adapted and I don't think I ever will. O12 is still my primary browser, although I always have the latest Opera Developer installed which I sometimes use for Facebook and Gmail (unusable in O12).
I still miss the standard menu bar, the bookmarks menu, the download dialog and manager, the MDI common close tab button, the tab behavior "click on tab to minimize" which allows one to go back to the last tab, etc.
I keep using the latest Opera as a secondary browser out of a mix of nostalgia and self-deception, but it's not really even my second favorite browser, I prefer Firefox. Although I also must say I prefer the new Opera to Chrome (for things like native mouse gestures). My ranking would be something like O12 > Firefox > IE tied with new Opera > Chrome.
BTW, so you see I'm not all negative, the feature that appeared very recently in the new Opera by which the tab preview when hovering over a tab is big and readable instead of just a thumbnail, is really cool and useful. But sadly it's the only advantage I can find in the new Opera, and it is far from outweighing all the missing things.
I'm also waiting for the Otter browser to develop. The latest betas are already rather functional and stable. Once mouse gestures are added, it'll probably become my primary browser.
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Deleted User last edited by
Sorry about the attempt at quoting the previous poster's comments. I had no intentions of making his quote so large and further editing only seems to make matters worse.
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al-khwarizmi last edited by
Yes, of course it's a huge plus, but I count that as a consequence of O12 not having been maintained (except for security updates) for a year, not as a problem with O12 itself. When O12 was maintained I could open all the sites fine.
Anyway, if we don't take that into consideration... I would say that I prefer the new Opera for Facebook and Gmail, but I very much prefer O12 for the rest of the sites I visit.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Sorry about the attempt at quoting the previous poster's comments. I had no intentions of making his quote so large and further editing only seems to make matters worse.
Better?
On a computer, highlight the text and click the large right quote marker under the post count. If doing it manually, precede the text by a ">" (as used in some email systems).
The line underneath your text "------------" identified the text above it as using a headline style "H2".
The reason Opera gave for switching to Blink was precisely because so many sites didn't support Presto. Especially web apps like Gmail, Google Docs, ... and similar from Yahoo, and also Facebook, and ...
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A Former User last edited by
Left for a bit because of the lack of native bookmark support but I like the direction it's taken. Miss some things from the Presto build but nothing that I can't adapt to.
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suntana last edited by
I've adapted to the NEW Opera just fine. Heck, I've adapted to it better than I ever did to Opera 12. I gave Opera 12 some chances, but it just kept being off, kept missing the mark jussst enough to have me declare it inferior to Opera 11.52 and Opera 11.64.
Anyway, with Opera 11.52, Opera 11.64 AND Opera 12, I kept getting errors and the irritating messages that "Opera has encountered an error and needs to restart" with Blogger and WordPress. Opera 20.0.1387.91 was the first Opera to immediately get rid of those Opera errors with Blogger and WordPress. Opera 20.0.1387.91 also made a gigantic positive difference in loading Vivaldi.net ... vs. the several ice ages that it took to load it with the older Operas. So, I was hooked and had no intention of going back to the older Operas.
I have my bookmarks working great ... and without even a need for the Stash or the Speed Dial. No problem there.
Not everything was perfect, but I just had to improvise, adapt and overcome. I installed the Smart RSS and RSS Detector extensions. And to take care of the Notes function of the older Operas, I am using CintaNotes Portable. I just have it minimized in my Taskbar and bring it up as needed. It works fine. I would have preferred an extension take care of the Notes task, but none of the ones I tried worked to my satisfaction.
About the only perk to which I haven't found a replacement yet and probably never will is the - Opera Extended Progress Bar that I really loved having at the bottom of my page and depended on it due to my Dial Up. But, since I know it's not likely to be incorporated into the NEW Opera and no other Browsers have remotely even had anything like it before ... I've resigned myself to just conditioning myself to just let it go ... don't dwell on it; it's not coming back.
