Originally posted by Pesala:

It won't happen. The Presto team was disbanded, and some left Opera to work elsewhere. Just keep using Opera 12.16 as long as it suits you.

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I was shocked recently when driving from Mountain View to San Francisco Airport when I spotted building with Opera's sign on top. So fact is that Opera is already present in Silicone Valley. I was still thinking that it is Norwegian company, but evidently it isn't true anymore.
This is fate of of Nokia as through copy machine.

Would it be crazy idea to keep developing old 12.xx version of Opera with Presto engine and make it licensed software? Personally I would really like to spend few dollars/euros for Opera License and have previous memory sparing, fast functionality.
Keep version 15 with Webkit free for masses, but for those who really need performance of old Opera keep old one though paid.
There is currently no alternative for performance of 12.16, not IE, Firefox or new Opera can provide such low memory needs as Opera with Presto and possibility to use and keep so many tabs open.

Hello,
I don't know if somebody noticed, but exactly from time of release of Opera 15 Chromium my till then stable 12.16 started to crash maybe 3-5 times a day. Usually it simply hangs with empty screen and I must close it and reopen.
It happens same way and interestingly almost same time on two independent computers, my working desktop and my private laptop connected to different networks.
It almost looks like it is receiving some command from opera server to hang now...
I will probably repeat other topics, but new Opera 15 onward sucks and is unusable for me for real work. I was using Opera for 10 years as my working browser because of its stability, possibility to open really a lot of tabs (I was using up to 120 tabs open all the time). Those tabs were holding for more than year stable.
There is no such possibility with other browsers, they start to slow down after 5+ tabs and are using my precious memory 3times more than my old Opera.
And this started to be true for Opera too after version 15.
New Opera is slow, memory hungry, crashing, missing basic features as password wand, bookmarks, not able to cope with more than 5 tabs, using crappy download manager where I can not set destination before download and instead of one process in windows is creating bunch of processes each using memory and CPU time.