Goodbye forever

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Hello all.

TL;DR: Dropping opera forever because it sucks now (I am not one of the 'they-changed-it-now-it-sucks' crowd, these are issues which interfere with my browsing habits, and I refuse to let the software that I use dictate my behaviour)

I have been an Opera user for almost 15 years. At first it was just my inner-hipster wanting something obscure. But I stayed for the customization options, ease of use, and it was a perfect fit for my browsing habits: I consider myself a power user, with 4+ windows open at any one time, each having at least 20 tabs open.

I generally don't have problems sticking with software which is sub-par in some areas, but better in others (I am a Linux user after all), so I stuck with Opera, even though certain pages had rendering issues, and Flash was noticeably slower, not to mention JS (loading a JS heavy site brought it to a crawl, FF not as much, Chromium not at all).

I have visited these forums only once to make a feature request, but it went unanswered (most likely because they knew they were dropping the integrated mail client).

I have been using Opera 12 on Linux until a week ago, when I upgraded to 26.

So here is the list of things that I have found bother me enough to switch:

Control + [Num] doesn't open speed dial links anymore
Gutted settings "dialog"
Inconsistent behaviour on tab close (sometimes MRU tab gets activated, sometimes one to the left, what is up with that?)
No option to clear history on exit (or I haven't found any, but the number of settings is so low that I doubt that)
Clear browsing data doesn't work (I can still see history after clearing)
No more Fit-to-width
No more drop-down zoom picker (these two are very useful for browsing away from the keyboard, using just the mouse)
No more remove-from-toolbar menu option
No more arbitrary button placement
No more middle-click options (and hence middle-click on the tab bar
No more sidebar/panels
No more Recently closed tabs list
No more of the little corner indicating the tab has a reloaded page (or hasn't been open yet)
MRU Control-tab tab switching (seriously, every browser dropped this, what is this, a global movement or something?! I'm a developer, and I frequently have various documentation open in multiple tabs, switching between them quite rapidly, reading one, looking something up in another and so on, so this is a must have for me)
Lame new Downloads tab
No more Control + Enter for login selection
No more progress bar inside address bar
No more 10% increments on Control + mousewheel zooming (I think 10% is perfect, maybe just an opinion, but it does offer greater control)
No more address tooltip while hovering over link (this is a big problem, as looking up a link destination requires a context switch to glance at the address bar. This might not seem like a big deal, but when developing/looking up docs (or any kind of high concentration activity, really) minimizing context switches is a must, that's why I love gestures and the mouse button navigation (rocker gestures))
Sometimes just stops responding (or at least rendering window changes - window title changes to newly selected tab title, but the page remains the old one, with scrolling, text selection not working)
No more session management (or is there, I haven't used it in a while)
No more startup dialog (was useful on browser crash or similar)
No more Allow window with no tabs

I'm sure there are other things, but I can't think of them right now. And if it was just a few things I could manage. But this is too much.

Anyway, goodbye forever, guys/girls. I'm leaving Opera for something actually useful to me.