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

• Geee 13y ago
  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'.
  • kmfrk 13y ago
    Now it has a chance at being a decent browser and acquiring a new user base, who doesn't care about those 'gutted features'. By doing what, exactly?
  • jamesgeck0 13y ago
    Slow? It was actually pretty efficient. It ran extremely well on old computers that Firefox and Chrome crawled on.
  • PavlovsCat 13y ago
    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.
  • faaaah 13y ago
    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.
  • cpsales 13y ago
    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.