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Re: Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released

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Post by PavlovsCat » Wed, May 29, 2013, 9:34 AM UTC

Geee wrote: post #102

kmfrk wrote: post #89

This is a bigger PR disaster than Xbox One. Everyone is criticizing Opera for the gutted features.

These are the old users who are whining. Opera's old user base is a good riddance. Opera was a slow, bloated browser, which no-one wanted to use. Now it has a chance at being a decent browser and acquiring a new user base, who doesn't care about those 'gutted features'.

Opera was a slow, bloated browser

Now it's bigger with less features.

The market share of power users might be smaller, but there Opera at least had a chance. Competing for the "I can't do shit so I don't want options" crowd against Google and their shamelessly emotional ads? No chance. No good reason to even try, either.

Re: Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released

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Post by faaaah » Thu, May 30, 2013, 8:59 PM UTC

Geee wrote: post #102

kmfrk wrote: post #89

This is a bigger PR disaster than Xbox One. Everyone is criticizing Opera for the gutted features.

These are the old users who are whining. Opera's old user base is a good riddance. Opera was a slow, bloated browser, which no-one wanted to use. Now it has a chance at being a decent browser and acquiring a new user base, who doesn't care about those 'gutted features'.

Opera slow and bloated? Excuse me, but did you look at the download size? Opera 12 is tiny compared to Chrome and the new version, and it has a much smaller footprint. Opera runs on old hardware Chrome couldn't even dream of running on.

Re: Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released

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Post by cpsales » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #123

It really fascinates me that no one, not even in the comments on the Opera blog, seems to have noticed that you cannot add a new search engine. I guess people are happy as long as Google is available. Opera Next aren't going to be released next week, so they can still migrate a lot of features, but I do agree with those who are concerned that they won't manage to move "enough" features to keep all their old users. I…

Some users talk about it on the forum.

Maybe they're not surprised because there was already a "bug" with Opera 12.15. Google is the default search engine and if your change that it comes back everytime you re-start Opera.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1648442

Re: Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released

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Post by cpsales » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 8:16 PM UTC

Geee wrote: post #102

kmfrk wrote: post #89

This is a bigger PR disaster than Xbox One. Everyone is criticizing Opera for the gutted features.

These are the old users who are whining. Opera's old user base is a good riddance. Opera was a slow, bloated browser, which no-one wanted to use. Now it has a chance at being a decent browser and acquiring a new user base, who doesn't care about those 'gutted features'.

Without the "old user base" (old indeed, I've been a fanboy for 10 years), Opera is nothing. They will not get the Chrome userbase. They don't have ressources to fetch a large audience. Opera is a browser for geek and should have stay so.