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Download Opera browser with:
Of course you have the choice.
Search the fitting add-ons or get someone who is willing to write an add-on which offers the desired features. Works for Firefox too, the add-on classic theme restorer is perfect for people who are willing to pimp their browser again with tons of useless features!
Demise? We get the perfect workflow optimized UI and with Blink the most powerful rendering engine ever! If you want features, just use the similar related add-ons for it!
A browser should only consist of features which are absolutely NECESSARY for browsing, features which are expanding it and slow down the experience or making it more bug ridden should be outsourced!
Opera has done the only right thing and i am glad that they did it!
The new UI has no clutter, it is nice and it is not necessary anymore to move things or push things around until the perfect state has been created. It just works 100% out of the box and it is fast while Blink renders nearly all sites perfect.
Seriously, customization is overrated, a browser is no toy, it is a working tool.
God... i hate it if people always complain about useless reasons!
Instead of being sad that we have been losing nearly all customizability functions we users should be happy that we finally get a stock UI which is ALREADY optimized so that it is not necessary anymore to mess around until the perfect workflow is created.
And not to forget, customization features are still bloat which slow down a program. People who want to have such an experience can customize over add-ons, which is the only valid way to do it.
Seriously, how often do you customize your browser? every day? every week? Fact is you do it most of the time ONCE and then you ignore the features for very long time. So having such features in add-on form is the more preferred, more better way to handle tasks like that.
Opera has just decided to bring us a competitive engine with the most possible workflow optimizations possible! And for that we should not be whining of what we have lost, we should embrace what we instead win!