After about 1 year: @Opera: why do you not rowing back?
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You can deactivate it in opera:flags > tab-peek
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Of course I can deactivate it, but that doesn't change the fact, that the implementation as is feels sluggish and not as useful (for me) as the old tab preview on hover …
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Well, with their latest acquisition it seems obvious that Opera has definitely turned from being a browser company to an advertising company. I doubt there will be much new of interest for me from them in the future.
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With such a large shift from Presto-Opera to Chrome-Opera, why did they even keep the name "Opera"? Did they think that all Opera users would just blindly follow along? They should have picked a new name.
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With such a large shift from Presto-Opera to Chrome-Opera, why did they even keep the name "Opera"?
Why not? The move from Electra to Presto was about the same dimension - the only difference was, that they still owned the rendering engine.
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I don't recall quite so many issues with 6 to 7 as with 12 to later versions. I'm sure there must have been some users of 6.x who had issues when 7 went final, but nowhere near the number with the change to Chromium.
I do use 23 daily (22 on my tablet), but it's just like any other browser really. And sometimes I have to dig out 12.17 for something 23 won't handle. I don't remember anyone saying that about 6/7 at the time …
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Oh, btw, those are the things you get, if you don't use your own engines:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google-to-drop-microsoft-designed-touch-web-spec-stick-with-apple-tech/Apple does not want to change their proprietary stuff (and by patenting such things they subvert the very idea of free and open standards) and Google seems to be incapable to get it straight too. So in the end probably all chromium based browsers will loose the capabilities too.
… and I really hoped for a unified spec for user initiated "pointing" events - it would have made things much easier: Write once, run everywhere ...
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So it seems like the new Opera development strategy is to wait until Chrome develops a feature and then put it into Opera.
The new bookmark feature seems like it could be nice, but it also looks like it's exactly like the Google Stars feature.
The new print preview is from Chromium.
And the new tab menu drop down - it was too much clutter when users asked for the recently closed tabs dropdown menu, but now it's not too much clutter to have an open tabs dropdown menu in the exact same place?
I was hoping that eventually the new Opera would become a useful browser, but it seems like there's just nothing special going on.
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Goto new opera forums address your complaint to someone called leushino. This member will then tell you you're talking rubbish and if you don't like it move on! I of course didn't need telling. I just tried opera 25 out respect for a former fantastic browser then decided it's rubbish moved back to 12.17 & cyberfox.
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Everyone here talking about how browsers are losing their features and just getting dumbed down to the lowest common denominator; you're absolutely right.
When Opera originally came out, it was a web browser in the real sense of the word. We had Netscape and IE as the competitors and while the two provided the same experience on viewing the webpages, Opera started adding features which allowed users to actually browse the web and be part of it instead of just viewing pages. Nowadays Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari are all stuck on the "lets show the webpage and be done with it" where as Opera always wanted to be a full experience out of the box. Sure, extensions/addons/addins (seriously, why so many names?) do extend the functionality but they are never designed with a unified experience in mind while the only thing you needed for O12 was (arguably) a better ad blocker or a script blocker to be precise as the built-in ad blocker was quite good.
If you're not sure what I'm talking about:
Opera 12 was a web browser for browsing the web, interacting with multiple pages and having an access to everything you needed in a single place (mail, bookmarks, sync etc etc.). Chrome, IE, FF, Safari are all just mere webpage display rendering engines with all the functionality built into the website itself so that the content is driven by the producer, not the user.I really hope that Vivaldi gets all the features which made O12 great implemented as soon as possible when going live and I'm going to say goodbye to O12 permanently. I already use Vivaldi for 70% of the content but I'm missing some plugins for, errr, certain websites to make the experience 100% fluid.
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