Posts made by canadagoose4ever

What is the point of this post? I suppose it's simply here to allow me to vent one last time after which I will permanently leave the forum. I've been a long-time Opera user going back to 1999 and actually paying for it. When Opera sent Von Tetzchner packing and deep-sixed Presto, it came as a shock - particularly the loss of the excellent "My Opera" offering they so freely gave to us (thank you, Opera, for those many wonderful years). But I stuck with Opera through the difficult early Blink years up until the disastrous announcement of the sale to a Chinese consortium.

Now some of you will accuse me at this juncture of putting on my tinfoil hat with what I'm about to reveal but so be it. I will not trust a browser or any antivirus offering from China, Russia or Romania. Call it what you will but that is my prerogative. It would be so easy for China to hide code into the new Opera browser (see Steve Gibson's latest revelations for substance to that claim) that I cannot take that chance. You can counter with the revelations of Snowden on the NSA and I would have to agree but being from the West I'll take my chances with the US rather than China.

So, with that I'm removing Opera permanently from my computer and saying a final good-bye to this forum and to all things Opera. Thank you, John, for the many wonderful years with Opera and for the free gift of My Opera. Those were wonderful, heady years that will not be forgotten. Time now to move on. Good-bye.

unsupported OS like XP is foolishness plain and simple.

Vista is still supported (even if only has less than a year left).
If MS hasn't dropped it yet, no one else should.

Companies can do whatever they please. You're not paying for the browser but using it as a free offering from Opera. Either update your OS or find another browser. But you're going to discover that your dated OS will be an increasing disadvantage to you going forward.

"an affair to remember"
"canadagoose ... People are expressing their opinions as they see fit.
It's not up to you to determine which comments are "silly" or foolish.
If someone is using XP and it fulfills their needs, that's their choice, not yours"
I beg license to use these words as if were mine. What about go to page 1 and take a new view ?

Nor is it up to you to tell me what I can and cannot post. I also am expressing "my" opinion and I stand by it. Unless it is a financial restriction, remaining with an old, unsupported OS like XP is foolishness plain and simple. Someone using such an outdated, insecure system is a threat to himself as well as others. He needs to upgrade it or pull the plug.

April 17/2017 is just ten months away. Then what? Update your OS to a more modern system. I struggle to understand users who insist upon using older systems unless cost is a factor.

Integrated mail is so yesterday... a path being taken by Vivaldi and undoubtedly wanted by an exceedingly small group of users (translation: it will never catch on beyond a group less than 1% of the user population). Opera needs to spend its time on innovation rather than returning to a suite of the 90's.

Well, that is unfortunate. I suspect I'll be called a variety of names for my feelings on the matter but I simply cannot place my trust in software produced under Chinese control. I've been with Opera since 2000 but I guess this means it's time to look elsewhere.

Moderator: you might consider killing this thread.

Have we really declined this much in terms of vulgar language that it is no longer recognized and needs to be pointed out? Very sad.

How about removing the offensive word in the title of this thread?

and one lives with a sense of gratitude that somebody else has bothered to make a nifty tool for free that one doesn't have to code and debug themself - if even they could.
Perhaps you can understand that...

A sense of gratitude. Ah... something I very much doubt igelmitdeagle would grasp. But it was a good reminder for all of us. Thanks.

Memory is cheap these days. Buy some.

The use of an OS as old as Windows XP is foolishness, plain and simple. If you cannot afford to upgrade to Windows 7 then you should seriously consider pulling the plug on your computer. With the price of Chrome books and entry-level computers today, there is no real need to operate with such an antiquated system. You put yourself at risk and others by extension.

You might want to check out the work Steve Gibson is doing on SQRL found here:

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

Bottom line: passwords are becoming obsolete and I can't really see the devs whose resources are already pressed to the limit spending time and energy working on a pw manager of sorts. I don't see what the hang-up with the new owners of LP is but I guess we all have our stories and experiences. I find LP to be adequate for my needs.

Just use Lastpass. What is the big deal? The developer team has better things to do with its limited resources. There are all kinds of alternatives than needing what you suggest.

This thread should be closed. It's been batted around for years, not months. Time to move on.

I entirely agree with your assessment. Opera, however, has not revealed any plans to create a dark theme nor are there any ways to do it oneself.

I couldn't care less. So what? It's pretty ugly-looking if you ask me.

Couldn't disagree more regarding changing the icon. The "O" carries with it Opera's history and as such it needs to remain. However, I would like to see an option for a dark skin similar to what Edge offers. Just the standard light skin and the dark skin would satisfy most users.

A home button can be added via the Chrome extensions. There is another thread in regards to what needs to be done first.

And given this information, it is to be expected that and ever increasing number of sites will fail to load properly as the webmasters will no longer take olde Opera into consideration. I don't expect Netscape to open most sites today and this will become my expectation for the Presto version of Opera as time passes.