Why has Opera gotten so bad ?

[William Gaatjes]

The old Opera with the presto engine for example remembered the search items. Now when the search popup goes away when i load a new webpage, the search box is also empty. Opera has gone down the drain. 🙁

 

[Morbus]

Because it's not Opera anymore. 95% of the old team left, the rendering engine is not the same, all features have and had to be built from the ground up again or be left out.

Opera is not Opera. It's yet another chrome-clone done by the same people with very VERY few of the same principles in mind.

I feel for old Opera users, I really do.

I also feel for the new Opera users, but for very different reasons.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I am using the new opera now to try out but i think i will make the jump to firefox then. But i miss the speed dial on firefox. 🙁
That is what is holding me back.

 

[bruceb]

I tried out Opera 26 a little bit back. Lousy, no Homepage, they want that on Speed Dial. Even the Bookmarks is now harder to get to. And I could not configure it to show a Menu Bar or change the button layouts. It does seem speedy, but the features I want are not there. Luckily, when I did the install, it installed it alongside Opera 12 .. so a rollback was a simple Uninstall of Opera 26

 

[William Gaatjes]

I tried out Opera 26 a little bit back. Lousy, no Homepage, they want that on Speed Dial. Even the Bookmarks is now harder to get to. And I could not configure it to show a Menu Bar or change the button layouts. It does seem speedy, but the features I want are not there. Luckily, when I did the install, it installed it alongside Opera 12 .. so a rollback was a simple Uninstall of Opera 26

I have been using opera 12 as well. But i worry about security issues and webpage incompatibilities and opera-presto no longer being supported. Now i have not installed it, but i am thinking about do so again.

 

[Fred B]

Been using opera from w98 and opera used to be very fast and low in recourses but now it is not good.After upgrading from Opera 12 to 24 i noticed increase in host write , wear level indicator dropped faster . I think a part of the problem is it write a lot to disk and cause slowdown on my system , my system disk writes only 40MB and can not keep up with opera . A lot the writes come from C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Application Data\Opera Software\Opera Stable\session.db .



So now trying out Firefox,explorer and Google and they do not write much and are much faster.

 

[Anubis]

I am using the new opera now to try out but i think i will make the jump to firefox then. But i miss the speed dial on firefox. 🙁
That is what is holding me back.

there is a speed dial extension for firefox and pale moon i use it

i still have opera 12.x installed but mostly use Pale moon now
ive gotten PM to behave like opear used to for just about everything

 

[gmaster456]

I've still got Opera 9 installed on one of my machines somewhere. Never really was a fan of Opera however. Also used it way back on Ubuntu 8.04 eons ago. Ran better than FF on the limited power my laptop at the time had.

 

[The Day Dreamer]

Same with Google Chrome and I thought its because of dozen of extensions I use.

 

[Josefinamax]

I did not tired with Opera..

 

[Morbus]

You have not leaned English wither.

Disclaimer: no offense 😛

 

[nemesismk2]

i really like opera and like the speed increase over firefox which i also have 🙂

 

[AtlBo]

I have been using opera 12 as well. But i worry about security issues and webpage incompatibilities and opera-presto no longer being supported. Now i have not installed it, but i am thinking about do so again.

I too went as far as I could go with 12. I tried the new Opera for literally 2 days I think. Ugh. Too bad the development team felt they had to go down the Google engine road for the jump to 15. I feel Opera would have done better to go down the Firefox road if anything.

Not sure how long it will take, but I am confident there will be energy in reviving Opera at some point in the future. As ugly as it has gotten, I will wait for that day...

 

[silicon]

I too went as far as I could go with 12. I tried the new Opera for literally 2 days I think. Ugh. Too bad the development team felt they had to go down the Google engine road for the jump to 15. I feel Opera would have done better to go down the Firefox road if anything.

Not sure how long it will take, but I am confident there will be energy in reviving Opera at some point in the future. As ugly as it has gotten, I will wait for that day...

not the first time a good piece of software has been sabatoged or simply killed off by the new owners. Have seen this at work on several occassions. A good piece of software replaced with an inferior solution.

 

[nemesismk2]

I originally went from Opera 12 to Opera 25 and i love the new Opera.