Posts made by operanextsucks

Another thing, Opera's founder seems to agree with me: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/07/opera_founder_its_all_gone_to_crap/

I just want to add that I in no way think Opera did this to spite any of us, it does not suit me at all however. I think it was ill-planned and very shortsighted, as the majority of my issues I think could be fixed with minor code tweaks, many probably without even that much. That's all.

Have a splendid day!

Honestly, this handle was just the first word that came to mind when i looked up and saw "Opera", and many of you show exactly why I don't normally bother to register anywhere, the general theme here seems to be gearing towards personal attacks and whatnot, as far as life and change goes, this is not it. Really, the fact that you don't do many things over a long period of time and require many tabs, right now i counted, I have a low 20-something open as we speak(hey it is still early, at times i group them in windows), but the fact that *you* cannot conceive of anyone doing it just shows your limitations and they should not limit the rest of us. It it has been made quite clear to me that Opera has no wish of maintaining it's longterm user base and as such I am finding and alternative, along with others.

I think I made a few points very clear in previous points, too bad shortsightedness seems to be the general trend. Really, makes me sad to change browsers completely, but the general attitude on this board seals the deal. Enjoy your repackaged Chrome browser, guys! Opera is dead. Ignorance is bliss. I guess google really did buy opera after all? who knows?

Have a nice day, and keep warm in the cold!

You know, I would use firefox, but it simply cannot deal with me using it. I leave that browser alone for a few hours and, regardless of OS and computer, it becomes slow and unresponsive, to top that off, often times if i leave it over night i have to kill it off completely (many times, not always) to get content, especially plug-in content, to work. Opera 12 and before is the kind of browser that nicely handled my 40-something tabs and kept track of recently closed ones, didn't but me with things I didn't want, hardly ever locked up, albeit there was a few mysterious crashes sometimes, however upon restart opera got it right 9 outta 10 times.

I have become accustomed to a certain way of using my computers, in large thanks to opera as it was, and it was glorious. Opera Next or Blink or W/E it is called is forcing me to change not only the way i use the browser, but be without many functions, learn a different key mapping (short cuts, and deal with tons that are not there) and well yeah it's not a practical browser for me to use anymore. It boils down to that. I was extremely embarrassed when I was over at my boss' house to clear out his computer from a suspected break-in. I installed Opera for ihm since his choice of Safari and IE were less than optimal. Much to my dismay Opera 15 had JUST dropped and there was no bookmarks, no nothing, a browser I couldn't even operate convincingly all of a sudden(nothing,almost nothing i was used to, worked). He since went back to his IE / Safari combo as his ~8000 bookmarks or (yeah yeah i realize that might have been fixed in later times, but this is just one of many, many, many things.).

I checked out the Otter project, and it seems interesting, except that i run neither windows nor linux (but if i were to run any of those, it would be linux). I run OS X, but this might change very soon as Mavericks is the biggest load of crap since that fisher price OS win 8 came outta microsoft. Maybe we as a community could organize a drive for funds or something for Otter and similar projects to get them off the ground?

I don't care what my rendering engine is called as long as it's compatible, and it gives me my preferred user interface. It *is* that simple.
Why couldn't they simply replaced the rendering engine with Webkit or w/e instead of ruining the entire user experience? I mean that seems to me like a much smoother transition. Instead they d this complete 180 and become part of the problem instead of the solution. I think if Opera users wanted Chrome they would download Chrome without having to be "tricked" into it

And, YES, it *is* personal. You give your browser an INCREDIBLE amount of trust and huge chunks of yourself! It is *highly* personal, and anyone who thinks anything else are kidding themselves. Really, you are.

I will be following Otter, and maybe I will give it a whirl to try to build it on OS X as it *is* open source, despite knowing there be endless evenings of pain ahead. Open source is amazing!

It has been a nice journey with opera till now, but I think the time has come to look for alternatives.

I just want to say a few things, as an avid Opera user since the 90s.
This new direction taken since opera 15 is abysmal. I am in fact ashamed of having recommended this browser to so many people. What do I do now? I stick with an old and possibly outdated version of Opera so I can get the user interface that i crave. From Opera 15 and onwards you have manged to remove almost every single keyboard shortcut i used, and while I am sure some reprogramming og keys can be done, I should not have to even worry about that, on top of that Opera now keeps NAGGING me to upgrade to opera 19 - which is -never- happening.

It is with great joy i go back to Opera 12. This here new stuff, well, there is nothing Vikig or Norwegian about it a poor repackaging of the Chrome browser. Even marking text for copy is a HORRIBLE mess that often marks half the page in the same go. Reading PDFs, while I find the PDF reader pretty, is a horrible undertaking, esp. if you want to copy parts of paragraphs to your own notes. Flipping thru tabs using your keyboard used to be simple and easy; like with many other things you moved the keys for this and made it very non-versatile. These are just the tip of the iceberg of my issues with the new opera. If i wanted Chrome I would go and get Chrome. I do not. I want the look and feel of the Old Opera (12 and before). Have any of you tried to move the Opera window on osx? it's quite the lottery game, more of than not you hit a tab instead of that complete lack of a border they have now. And what's with that new key store? Does it even work at all?

So thank you Opera software for being singlehandedly responsible for putting tons of out of date browsers on the Internet with lord knows what kind of security bugs. So, until i find a worthy alternative to the old opera, and please save your breath - i'm not going with FF, IE or Chrome, none of these browsers rub me the right way, I will be surfing the web with an old, unpatched insecure version of Opera..thanks guys. The Opera we knew and loved is one of the few browsers that was ever worthy. This new crap is...well just crap.

I am highly interested in browser alternatives a long the lines of Opera 12 and so forth, that are being kept up to date! Please hit me up with suggestions.

Bravo, vi klapper virkelig for denne broleren. Utvikling betyr fremgang, evolusjon, dette er devolusjon. Patetisk.

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