Aside from GNOME, one can also look at the Opera Browser community. Many of us were skeptical of the switch to being based on Chromium not because of browser, b

Aside from GNOME, one can also look at the Opera Browser community. Many of us were skeptical of the switch to being based on Chromium not because of browser, but because of the fear Opera would throw out many of the powerful features its user base has relied on for years. Heck, Opera wasn't even going to add in normal bookmarking until they received a huge community backlash against it. Many of us have hundreds of bookmarks and the alternative they were providing[1] would have made it a burden to find anything useful when one has more than a few dozen bookmarks. In short, removing features makes people unhappy when they rely on them being there in order to be productive. Adding new features or dramatically altering the way long time ones work, sure go ahead, as long as current users are given the option to keep using those long time features (ones more than a few years old) the same way they expect by undoing some option in settings. Some might scoff at this as being impossible, but that was how Opera actually functioned from the beginning up until the switchover to Chromium in Opera 15. [1] http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2013/07/08/shop-smarter-with-stash http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2013/07/08/shop-smarter...