If this forum is like any other there are people of all opinions. Last time I was here there was a huge flame vs the Opera Next move so I was assuming I wasn't the only one bitter but still keeping my opera in the hope things would get better.

Also you may acknowledge it's frustrating to see something done well in 2010 then utterly destroyed. My tone isn't kind for Opera but when you create a crowd of follower hooked by some unique features then remove all of those features for no tangible gain, you actually something really nasty, not "nasty like bitching in a forum" but the ergonomic equivalent of a violent slap on hundred of thousands of users.

Anyway the good thing is that I found a firefox plugins that does just that and even better. Goodbye Opera, I've loved your search engine via URL bar, your speed dial with refreshing thumbnails, your fully customisable UI, your per tab zoom, etc etc. But now others have that while you don't. There is not one single distinctive feature left in you, what were you expecting ?

For the record, if anyone want that too:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/seamonkey/addon/speed-dial/

As I am passing by I wanted to check on one thing - since Opera has been changed to Opera Next it lost nearly all of its killer feature. The best one was for me was the speed dial with thumbnail that would refresh on reload so I could instantly know what of my regular sites had been updated.

No fix for that ? No extension doing it ? Are we still with a ridiculously lesser Opera than 4 years ago ?

Originally posted by leushino:

Originally posted by spartaa:

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/

Good stuff, Spartaa! Not sure why so many believe they are being "forced" to update when the older versions are still available and receiving security updates.

Because I don't know for you but everything for win7 64bit display very slow, crash if you have 3 tabs on youtube (not playing), crash on facebook, I mean it's just constantly crashing. Get older, newer release, no difference. OTOH Opera "chromium" is stable and fast like opera once was (in my XP, 32 bits day) although indeed retarded in terme of customisation to a point it's embarrassing.

Opera team really has been delusionnal. Opera's user as, by nature, people demanding with their browser. Making a new version that change the behaviour of many thing for no improvement on the long run use, break the signature speed dial feature (refresh every 30 min... Nah, just kidding) and... I hardly can believe what I am typing... don't handle bookmarks... I mean, what were they thinking ? This is not Opera 15 (or 18). Opera 5, maybe ?