Well, I'll keep this simple. Enough other threads already exist that touch on each feature we Opera users have lost from Opera 12. Suffice it to say, Opera 15 is an UTTER DISASTER. The primary reason I LOVED opera from version 6 through version 12 was the feature set. Opera had it all, literally. They usually had it first. The features were excellent, well implemented, USEFUL, and there were TONS OF THEM.

Opera 15? It is a complete and total castration of EVERYTHING that made Opera a wonderful browser. I was looking forward to the use of a compatible rendering engine...but NOT AT THE COST OF EVERYTHING ELSE!!! What in the world is this??

I've lost just about every single feature I enjoyed about Opera. The new version feels like Chrome, which is utterly limited in every way, a royal pain in the ass to use, and an unpleasant experience in more cases than not. Opera 15...or, Chrome Lite, and just as much a useless pain in the rear end.

I'm gravely disappointed. I do not like Opera 15. I miss my extensive feature set and wonderful, personalizable functionality. To put that in clearer terms: I LOVE WINDOWS 8, it's wonderful, easy to use, still does everything my old Windows 7 did, and does MOAR! (yes, the OS everyone else sees to hate)! Opera 15 is the true disaster, and seems to actually be what everyone is incorrectly claiming Windows 8 is: a castration of an extensive and thoroughly used feature set.

I much preferred Opera 12, not because it rendered every web page I visited properly (it didn't)...but because it made browsing the web a pleasant experience. I can get used to stash in place of no regular bookmarks. But I cannot get used to the loss of dozens of features nor the inability to configure my browsing experience the way I WANT IT TO BE (i.e. why the hell can't I change the Speed Dial search engine? I HATE GOOGLE! GIVE ME BING!!)

Well, enough said. Sad, sad, sad, SAD DAY! I truly hope this does not mark the end of the wonderful Opera era...what a sad release. I miss my features and personalization.

Pesala, this is the only place my anger might have an impact on Opera development. As for having "unrealistic" expectations, I believe it is ENTIRELY REALISTIC to EXPECT that EVERY browser SHOULD have bookmarks, full and proper bookmarks, not some half-assed excuse like Stash or half-implemented flop like the bookmarks bar.

So sorry, but I have completely realistic expectations, as do everyone else who've been asking about full bookmarks since Opera Next was released. The UNREALISTIC state of affairs is that those requests have been ignored for so long.

I have Opera 20. It did not import any of my Opera 12 bookmarks. The bookmark bar has no bookmarks on it, and the + button only adds more links. Right clicking does not seem to do anything. I see no way to add folders. I can apparently drag links to the bookmark bar to add individual links, but that's it. I'd also note that there is no way to easily add links to the bookmark bar. You have to either add them manually, or drag and drop them. Dragging and dropping links is a pain in the ass all too frequently. When I ask for proper bookmarks, I mean PROPER bookmarks, with the standard way of adding them: Such as right-clicking the page background and clicking "Add to bookmarks", or right-clicking a link to do the same. We aren't just talking a little limited here. The bookmarks bar feature of 20 is EXTREMELY limited.

What you want or what you are ok with doesn't concern me. People, lots of people, not just me, have been asking for bookmarks since Opera 15. In every one of the opera next blog entries, like the one you linked, there are multiple people asking for bookmarks. Not a bookmarks bar, REAL bookmarks. Those requests have been ignored for 7 versions. That's bull. Sorry, but sometimes anger is entirely justified. Asking nicely has gotten the people who need bookmarks, which as I've said before is an exceptionally BASIC version of EVERY browser, has gotten us nowhere. So now I'm angry. Suck it up, bub, and take your satisfaction elsewhere. I'm not satisfied, and I want to be heard.

Pesala, trying to force your way of tracking links on everyone else, and calling them delusional because they expect more, doesn't get you anywhere. You can call something bookmarks, but just because that word is in the name doesn't make the feature actually bookmarks.

A bookmarks bar is not what I need, pesala. I need BOOKMARKS. Full blown, fully featured, hierarchical, searchable, structured bookmarks. A bookmarks bar is even less useful than stash!!! Why doesn't anyone in the Opera camp get this? Stash, speed dial, bookmarks bar. These are all USELESS for storing bookmarks, BECAUSE they are flat and linear. That isn't bookmarks. That's a half-assed attempt at appeasement, an attempt to shut up their customers while the Opera dev team pitters about with a bunch of useless new experimental features (Like STASH!) that no one wants.

People who have been browsing for decades, need fully featured bookmarks. I have thousands of them in Opera 12. I'd use Opera 12 for everything...except the Opera devs ditched Presto. Presto is no longer modern-web ready. I can't develop with it, I can't browse many modern sites with it. So, I'm either stuck using FireFox, which is exceptionally insecure these days, Chrome (which I've hated for a long time, and I've never liked Google anyway), Internet Explorer (ok, but it's about the most feature anemic browser around), or Opera Next. None of the options are really great, however at least EVERY other option EXCEPT Opera has true bookmarks.

I don't need just another flat, linear, limited list of links. I need bookmarks, hierarchical, searchable, exportable, importable (including from Opera 12 bookmark exports), fully featured without limitations. It's an utter joke that Opera can't wrap their head around that concept, and they keep wasting time on useless alternatives like Stash or a "bookmarks bar", which is really just stash in a bar...just as useless.

Pesala, stash and speed dial are NOT bookmarks. I don't know how much I can stress that. I have thousands of bookmarks in Opera 12. Stash is a joke, as it can only hold a couple dozen links before they drop off the bottom. Speed dial is just a fancy way to start a new tab with the option of launching into one of a few very commonly used sites. That is not bookmarks. Bookmarks are a hierarchical, folder-based structure where one can store and organize as many links as they want, in any fashion they want, that's searchable and cross-referenced, WITHOUT LIMITATIONS.

It's the limitations bit that has me so pissed off. Opera Next is nothing but limitations. Limits everywhere. I'm sick and tired of losing the sites I want to track because they fall off the bottom of Stash. Not to mention the fact that stash is the worst means of ORGANIZING the links I'm interested in keeping around EVER.

Again, this is THE MOST BASIC feature of EVERY browser...except Opera Next, that is.

That's it. That's the question. It's the only freakin question that matters right now, because it boils down to whether you listen to your users or not. Bookmarks. It is the single feature that EVERY browser MUST have. Every browser EXCEPT Opera Next, and that includes mobile browsers on smartphones, support bookmarks.

I'll be strait up. Stash is the biggest freakin joke I've EVER seen. It is a massive waste of space. The previews never really show you any useful content on a site...usually just a pointless header bar and a menu bar. Worst of all, however, is the fact that Stash can only store so many things before the oldest items fall off the list.

I use bookmarks. They are probably the one feature of every browser I find UTTERLY ESSENTIAL. Now, I'm pretty pissed off in general about the hackjob evisceration of Opera that you developers have made of the product recently. You utterly gutted it, and eliminated every feature that mattered...on order to stuff Chrome inside an Opera skin. That was the biggest mistake you could have possibly made, and clearly demonstrated you guys don't have the first bloody clue as to WHY your users one used your browser (or why they will be flocking in droves to other browsers if something in the development plans for Opera doesn't change, soon!)

So, I'm pretty pissed off in general about the demise of Opera as a useful browser. But when it comes to bookmarks, I'm furious. People, LOTS and LOTS of Opera-using people, have been asking for bookmarks since five minutes after Opera 15 first hit the bitstreams of the internet. BOOKMARKS!! Your Stash just doesn't cut it. Stash never will cut it. Stash is one of the most utterly useless features I've ever seen added to a browser. The fact that you guys wasted time on Stash, and are STILL IGNORING your user's demand for regular old, folder-based, hierarchical BOOKMARKS, just has me FURIOUS.

So, what's the deal? What's up Opera devs? Where the hell are your heads shoved these days that were up to Opera 21, or 22 now, and your still puttering around with experimental features that no one even knows whether they want or not? Why don't we have bookmarks yet? Are you guys even CONSIDERING putting bookmarks back in? When will we have bookmarks? I mean, this isn't the most complicated of features here. It's a hierarchical folder structure, within which you can place bits of metadata containing site titles, the URL, and a few extra bits of data such as last visited and last updated. That's it. Super simple, guys! SO WHERE THE HELL ARE BOOKMARKS?!?

(And, because you guys don't seem to be the brightest bunch...where the hell are all the rest of the features that were once staples of the Opera UI, like tab groups? Because, you know, bookmarks is just the beginning of the list of features you guys are going to get an earful about if you just keep sitting around experimenting with wacko features like Stash that no one has asked for and no one wants.)

For everyone saying that you can just get addons or plugins, your generally missing the point. I don't want to have to hunt around and dig into the bowls of plugin sites to find something that kinda sorta maybe might possibly do what I need, if I stand on my right big toe while patting my head when the full moon is out.

Opera just used to WORK. It had EVERYTHING. It was eminently CUSTOMIZABLE. It was BLAZING FAST. It was EASY. I chose Opera for all of those things.

Today? Opera doesn't even do BOOKMARKS!! I mean, OMG!! If there is ANY feature that EVERY browser MUST have, its BOOKMARKS!

And Opera Software can't even get that right. I've been asking for bookmarks, along with thousands of other people, since Opera 15. Were now, what, Opera 21? What a joke! This company has completely LOST everything it had going for it with Opera 12 and prior. No one who used Opera gave a bloody damn about the browser engine. They gave a damn about Opera...that unique little browser that did it all, did it all well, and usually did fancy new things first.

The Opera of today is a pale, pathetic little shadow of the shadow of what it once used to be. There is absolutely NOTHING compelling about Opera today. I mean, a lot of people complain about Windows 8...but that is only because Windows 8 was change. When it comes to Windows 8, things changed, but they did not LOSE any real functionality. The old form of some functionality morphed into a new form, but it was all still there. Microsoft didn't decimate then decimate again the features and functionality of their Windows operating system...they transformed it, made it new, and today, I absolutely LOVE Windows 8. It took me two days to get used to the start screen, and I can still do everything I used to do and more.

Opera? Opera can't even do bookmarks!!!!!!!!

Well, I think the day has almost come. I've been a die-hard Opera user for a long time, nearly a decade now I think. The announcement that Opera was going to move to Chromium for their rendering engine originally fueled hope that the browser might gain more life after it's long and slow demise (and increased number of web sites actively blocking it, despite total compatibility with all features used by said sites.)

Since the release of Opera Next, I have really been nothing but disappointed. Opera up through version 12 was STUPENDOUS because of one thing: FEATURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You had it nailed, every essential feature for using the internet was present in Opera. There was nothing the browser did not do, and it did all of them quite well. It had features no other browser on the face of the planet had. It was the reason it had a cult following, being so immensely capable as it was.

Opera Next? This is about the single most gimped browser on the planet. The development team has focused on everything EXCEPT the things that their users seem to care about. For example, the single largest feature demand since Opera Next hit the streets: Bookmarks? Were five separate version releases in, now at Opera 20, and BOOKMARKS are still nowhere to be found. NOWHERE! BOOKMARKS!!!! Good GOD, I cannot STRESS how USELESS the stash feature is. It is 100% USELESS. It's pretty, but it's useless. WHERE THE HELL ARE BOOKMARKS?!

What about BASIC customization? I think I can change a search engine in one of the places search is used. What about the rest? What about the ability to change around the UI to be more conducive to how I work? What about thumbnail tabs, or at the very least, tab popup previews (I used both features, as I am a multi-window browser...in some browsers I keep thumbnail tabs and a few tabs, others I have dozens of tabs open so popup previews were often essential for finding the pages I needed.)

Here is a really EXQUISITE feature of Opera 12 that I have a CRITICAL need for: Ctrl-tabbing between tabs such that I can swap back and forth between two pages directly? In Opera 12, I used to be able to ctrl-tab from my current tab to the previously used tab, then ctrl-tab back. Now? Now, tabbing works in the same useless manner that Chrome does: It cycles through ALL OPEN TABS! That is USELESS! Not only that, it's a WASTE OF TIME and EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING!

What in god's name is going on here with Opera? You guys have COMPLETELY LOST SIGHT of the things that made Opera up through version 12 the wonderful browser it was: It's unique features! What are you doing now? WASTING time with more useless or unproductive features like Stash, or making Opera "JACC", Just Another Chrome Clone! Chrome SUCKS! Compared to Opera 12, it's a pitiful excuse for a browser. Opera Next? It's even MORE pitiful. In it's current state, it's a waste of disk space (and I have about 20TB of space...so that should REALLY TELL YOU SOMETHING.)

I'm so incredibly disappointed and dismayed about Opera Next that I can't really even express it. I'm mortified at how you've DECIMATED it's features, how you just threw out the door every single useful feature I used to rely on to make my web browsing experience pleasant, enjoyable, and productive. I am CONSTANTLY frustrated by all the crappy behavior, such as the ctrl-tab behavior, the lack of tab previews, etc. Opera has become a pitiful excuse of a browser, and doesn't even qualify as a shadow of it's former self...its a fragment of a shadow of the shadow of Opera 12.

I really, truly, seriously hope the Opera developers get their collective head out of their collective ass, and start working on adding back the things that once made Opera 12 the best browser on planet earth: It's unique, perfect features that made browsing the web a wonderful experience. Drop bullshit features like Stash, and restore those simple and critical features like bookmarks, the most ubiquitous feature that EVERY modern browser offers. If by Opera 21 I don't at least have bookmarks, I'm done. Forever. Because this is just some kind of cosmic joke, and it's no longer funny.

I think the feature that I am most infuriated is now missing is the closed tabs list. I used that feature ALL THE TIME. I hated the fact that none of the other browsers had it, and it was probably one of the core critical things that kept me on opera, despite how many sites didn't render properly.

Well, I have needed it so many times since I installed Opera 15, and it just plain isn't there. The ONLY thing Opera had going for it was its features, particularly the unique ones like the closed tabs list so accidentally closed pages could easily be reopened. Along the same line was the infinite history, the durability of everything in every tab (i.e. if you started typing text in input fields, then closed the browser or the system crashed...Opera WAS the ONLY browser that PRESERVED THAT INFO!! You could restart opera after a full system crash, and ALL your previously filled in form data was always preserved! Not any more...)

This is utterly pathetic. Operas one strength is gone. The unparalleled functionality, its unparalleled convenience, all the things it once did to make using the web, particularly in unstable environments, a pleasant and even addictive experience....are gone. What a sad, sad, depressing day. What a joke. Opera 15...RIP.

Well, I'll keep this simple. Enough other threads already exist that touch on each feature we Opera users have lost from Opera 12. Suffice it to say, Opera 15 is an UTTER DISASTER. The primary reason I LOVED opera from version 6 through version 12 was the feature set. Opera had it all, literally. They usually had it first. The features were excellent, well implemented, USEFUL, and there were TONS OF THEM.

Opera 15? It is a complete and total castration of EVERYTHING that made Opera a wonderful browser. I was looking forward to the use of a compatible rendering engine...but NOT AT THE COST OF EVERYTHING ELSE!!! What in the world is this??

I've lost just about every single feature I enjoyed about Opera. The new version feels like Chrome, which is utterly limited in every way, a royal pain in the ass to use, and an unpleasant experience in more cases than not. Opera 15...or, Chrome Lite, and just as much a useless pain in the rear end.

I'm gravely disappointed. I do not like Opera 15. I miss my extensive feature set and wonderful, personalizable functionality. To put that in clearer terms: I LOVE WINDOWS 8, it's wonderful, easy to use, still does everything my old Windows 7 did, and does MOAR! (yes, the OS everyone else sees to hate)! Opera 15 is the true disaster, and seems to actually be what everyone is incorrectly claiming Windows 8 is: a castration of an extensive and thoroughly used feature set.

I much preferred Opera 12, not because it rendered every web page I visited properly (it didn't)...but because it made browsing the web a pleasant experience. I can get used to stash in place of no regular bookmarks. But I cannot get used to the loss of dozens of features nor the inability to configure my browsing experience the way I WANT IT TO BE (i.e. why the hell can't I change the Speed Dial search engine? I HATE GOOGLE! GIVE ME BING!!)

Well, enough said. Sad, sad, sad, SAD DAY! I truly hope this does not mark the end of the wonderful Opera era...what a sad release. I miss my features and personalization.