it seems to be just a reskin of Chrome… for some reason I thought it would be just using the chrome engine, not all of Chrome.

Right back when they announced that they would be using chromium/blink they implied that was going to be the only change, the front-end would remain the same. Now they say they are building the interface from the ground up.

I feel they have bitten off more than they can chew and most things are not possible using chromium/blink and a lot of what should be core functions are going to be relegated to extensions. The antithesis of Opera Presto.

Still try every build as it comes along, shake my head at how the mighty have fallen, then remove it once again. :(

currently checking Opera v18.0.1277.0

Interesting…it may be then that they have decided to stop and listen to their users.
all is not lost then…:D

It’s a start if nothing else. ;)

@moles42:

I’m still testing v15 with about 5 or 6 of the ‘chrome’ extensions which replaced some of the missing opera
functions we were used to….it’s still nowhere near as good as v12 and earlier with my custom menus though.

You must have more patience than me. I just found it far too annoying to use, even just for testing purposes and it’s no longer on my system. Maybe once the bookmarks are reinstated I’ll give it another go.
Oh and an option to turn off that stupid discover feature too. :D

I’m still testing v15 with about 5 or 6 of the ‘chrome’ extensions which replaced some of the missing opera
functions we were used to…it’s still nowhere near as good as v12 and earlier with my custom menus though.

However, after listening to your feedback, the first thing we have done is to make sure to prioritize the work on native bookmarking functionality.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2013/07/10/ctrl-z-of-ctrl-d

surely the developers know why their browser became so popular in the first place…:confused:

I think they did know, but unfortunately Opera got rid of them. Restructuring I think they called it. :rolleyes:

As it stands at the moment all 15 is useful for is the zombie user who only open their facebook page and spends their entire day there. If you need something more then you’re going to have to look elsewhere.

surely the developers know why their browser became so popular in the first place…:confused:

I wasn’t aware of that browser…just popped over there and it reminds me of the early days of Opera as I was checking out their skins…:)

I’d never heard of it before neither until a couple of weeks ago.

@moles42:

I felt bogged down with firefox after months and months of testing…:(
maybe I just got fed-up with all the plug-ins…:)

Ah but extensions are the future, just ask Opera. :p

I’ll maybe give Sleipnir a try as a few folk in the Opera blog comments have been praising it a fair bit.

I wasn’t aware of that browser…just popped over there and it reminds me of the early days of Opera as I was checking out their skins…:)

I felt bogged down with firefox after months and months of testing…:(
maybe I just got fed-up with all the plug-ins…:)

:D

In my defence the guy was a complete prick. :D

@moles42:

Who knows but if it at least stays with a v12 structure then I for one will be testing it…:)

Yes so will I. It does everything I want from a browser so in the meantime I will stick with it.
@moles42:

if however they eventually phase it out in favour of the ‘chrome-opera’
then it will be time to look elsewhere I think…:(

I guess that would be back to firefox for me. Or I’ll maybe give Sleipnir a try as a few folk in the Opera blog comments have been praising it a fair bit. There’s no linux version though so it would be back to firefox on that.

I had a customer once who told me that customer is always right.
Not in my fecking shop he’s not, I replied. ;)

:D

At least they’ve promised us a 12.16. But how much longer will they do similar releases of the Opera 12 branch?

Who knows but if it at least stays with a v12 structure then I for one will be testing it…:)

if however they eventually phase it out in favour of the ‘chrome-opera’
then it will be time to look elsewhere I think…:(

didn’t I read somewhere that the customer was always right…;)

I had a customer once who told me that customer is always right.
Not in my fecking shop he’s not, I replied. ;)

I think the Opera devs are taking a similar stance.
@moles42:

For now I will stick with v12.15 as it might be the last version of Opera I’ll use.

At least they’ve promised us a 12.16. But how much longer will they do similar releases of the Opera 12 branch?

For now I will stick with v12.15 as it might be the last version of Opera I’ll use.

Bitterly disappointed in v15…not happy at all in the direction they seem to be heading with their browser.
just hope that continued user pressure will have some major bearing on their decision to follow down the ‘Chrome’ path…:(

They don’t appear to be listening to users at all Moles
Take bookmarks for example. They heard we were not happy so rather than have native bookmarks they gave us an extension. Yep! That went down well. :rolleyes:
@moles42:

I continue to download the latest releases in the hope of major changes but find myself quickly uninstalling once again.

I didn’t even bother downloading today’s release to be honest. Nothing had changed for the better since the last snapshot, so I wasn’t going to waste my time. :(

I will watch the progress of this dumbed down browser for improvements but I’m not hopeful about it’s future.

But every time I tried to use it, I found there were too many pages it could not render correctly.

I’ve never had a problem with Opera rendering pages, except for sites that used browser sniffing and that could be sorted 9 times out of 10 by masking as FF or IE. But that’s the sites fault not a fault of Opera.

@Socrates:

I have thought this might be the one. My hopes were obviously misplaced.

Well there should be no issues with sites rendering properly now.
But it’s such a pile of crap you wouldn’t use it long enough to find out if that’s true or not.