VAST improvement

I might be wrong in my linguistic understanding but, if you have an old car and replace it with new engine, you don't get VAST improvement, you EXPECTED that improvement because you replace with the new one. So basically, team opera is moving forward WITH the new "copy&paste" engine. Thus, means they ditch the features and innovations that may have VASTLY improve the old opera with the sparkling new bundled engine from google.
So, closing of opera was innovation? no bookmark was innovation? uniform UI is innovation? no mate, there is no innovations.

New Opera UI is not an Opera UI. just put your left thumb up and cover the top left corner of the browser, BOOM!, its chrome! wait, its FF! there is no unique distinction. you could say the icons are different and such, but in truth it's the same. I don't see the point of using opera if chrome is opera big bro.

To say that the new UI is optimized is BS. It's conformity. I am using latest opera next and try getting around my usually browsing, 80% of the time i was like "What!?", want to duplicate a site, i automatically move my mouse down then up, "What!?", found some ads intensive sites," hmm.. i need to open this link", right click context menu then "open", "what!?" there's no "open" menu? only got "open link in...". So technically i need to close previous tab each time to get to the links i need.

To more personal customization, i always have my tab bar bottom. i rarely touch navigation bar at all, F8 to type in address, mouse gesture to navigate like a boss, you can even minimize/maximize that certain tabs |http://i.imgur.com/Z1XTJmj.png| it's uses, i don't need to tell you, too many to count and the best part, just hold right click drag up then right release. If you want to login to any sites, already saved your login ID and passwords, just forward, don't need to find and click the login button. Bottom tab bar is way efficient, when you switched to other program and back to opera again, you always find you cursor cruising top bottom top again. It's not lazy it's efficiency, like mouse gesture is efficient, you can use navigation bar on the top, but mouse gesture there to navigate faster.

My point, we need to whine. Whining is essential for progress. Even if opera turn a blind eye there will be other people who wants to bring back opera to it's original form, maybe through open source.

My O12.16 layout as follows: tabs at the bottom above the windows taskbar, panel on my left extruding enough just for the icons such as notes, downloads, and bookmarks for quick actions. pop-up progress bar at the bottom above the tabs (i consider it the best indication for internet speed, just refresh and you know the speed of your internet at that given time.). Within my tab bar, at the very corner right, page zoom scale, opera link, and opera turbo. just after the browser tab before open new tab icon, theres closed tabs for quick trace back. search engine bar at the top replaced by extension that i use for work and leasure such as, translate, livestreams. This setting is just several changes that are essential part of my browsing experience.

So, to have the latest and upcoming Opera changing or closely becoming more like 12.16 is like winning worldwide international lottery (There's no such lottery.... not happening)...

I came here because i just found out there's no "open" context menu, so technically i have to open on new tab, close the previous tab and rinse repeat to all those sites that do so. good!!!