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As someone who's been a longtime Opera user before switching to Chrome (buggy release around 10.x, weakening site compatibility) I'm so glad to read this. This
by DeepDuh 14y ago
As someone who's been a longtime Opera user before switching to Chrome (buggy release around 10.x, weakening site compatibility) I'm so glad to read this. This decision shows the quality of engineers who work at Opera - not afraid to throw a huge chunk of code away if it doesn't serve the company anymore the way it was intended. Thinking about it I can't make up a single example of a large software house doing such a thing.
Looking forward to get my neat features again, such as fast forward, hotkey bindings, Opera turbo..
- gebe 14y agoSame experience, left Opera for Chrome for exactly the same reasons. However I miss much of the features in my daily use, the ones you listed and many more. Especially Opera's tab preview that doesn't seem to have an equivalent in Chrome is something I have found myself missing deeply. I really hope Opera becomes a viable alternative for me again now.
- franciscoap 14y agoBack in the day, Netscape did a full rewrite between major versions. There's a Spolsky blog post about it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Very interesting read.
- dagw 14y agoThis is totally different. They're not re-writing their application from scratch, but replacing a core component with a popular, well tested and widely support one.
- franciscoap 14y agoIndeed it is -- GP only mentioned he didn't know any example of a large amount of code being thrown out, so I provided one.
- pornel 14y agoThey are ditching their UI toolkit and dev tools as well. It does look like a complete rewrite, maybe with copy&paste of some old features like gestures.
- DeepDuh 14y agoThanks for the link, it's indeed a good read.