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As someone who was left behind with Opera 12, I have mixed feelings about this.

by Aoyagi 12y ago

thomasahle 12y ago
What's so great about Opera 12?
- danieldk 12y ago
  It's the last Linux version: http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=linux http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=linux
- coldpie 12y ago
  For one thing, Opera 12 was the last version released for Linux. It was also the last version before they basically completely rewrote the software on top of Webkit. I was a Linux Opera user since 2007 up until a couple months ago. I finally switched away because Opera 12 was getting on three years old, which is ancient for web browsers. Now I use Firefox full time, and I've heard enough bad things about Webkit Opera that I'm not really interested in even trying it.
  - jlarocco 12y ago
    "Rewrote" isn't even accurate, from what I've seen. On osx it's like a buggy version of chrome, with few of the things that I liked in the original opera browser. Supposedly they're working on it, and I'll try this on my linux machine later today, but I'm probably staying with chromium everywhere at this point.
    - tracksmer 12y ago
      You should probably look a bit closer. It's quite different from Chrome with different features, etc.
- sgift 12y ago
  It was the last Opera with its own rendering engine. Now it is just another UI for Blink. So sad.
  - skrebbel 12y ago
    Pretty sad, but as "another UI for Blink" without all the Googleness that Chrome has, it's a pretty damn awesome option. It still lacks a lot of the features that made Opera 12 nice, but it's also the best browser out there, IMHO - Chrome-like performance and standards support, without so much Google-sauce.
  - mrweasel 12y ago
    While I would love just to have Opera 12 with the Blink rendering engine, I was rather baffled by Operas decision to drop Presto. I though that their core business was: "Making a small, good and fast rendering engine". That are they suppose to be selling now?
    - tracksmer 12y ago
      Their core business was making browsers in general. Being small isn't that much of an advantage anymore. They can now sell something that works reasonably well on most modern hardware.
- lurkinggrue 12y ago
  It has a ton of useful features that never came back when they rewrote the browser using blink.
binarycrusader 12y ago
As someone who was left even farther behind with Opera 10.11 (last version for Solaris), I'll never use Opera again: http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=solaris-intel&list=all But more seriously, even if I could get past that, I see no obvious, compelling reason to use Opera when I already have FireFox 29+ available to me.

As someone who was left behind with Opera 12, I have mixed feelings about this.

by Aoyagi 12y ago

As someone who was left behind with Opera 12, I have mixed feelings about this.

thomasahle 12y ago

What's so great about Opera 12?

danieldk 12y ago
It's the last Linux version: http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=linux http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=linux
coldpie 12y ago
For one thing, Opera 12 was the last version released for Linux. It was also the last version before they basically completely rewrote the software on top of Webkit. I was a Linux Opera user since 2007 up until a couple months ago. I finally switched away because Opera 12 was getting on three years old, which is ancient for web browsers. Now I use Firefox full time, and I've heard enough bad things about Webkit Opera that I'm not really interested in even trying it.
- jlarocco 12y ago
  "Rewrote" isn't even accurate, from what I've seen. On osx it's like a buggy version of chrome, with few of the things that I liked in the original opera browser. Supposedly they're working on it, and I'll try this on my linux machine later today, but I'm probably staying with chromium everywhere at this point.
  - tracksmer 12y ago
    You should probably look a bit closer. It's quite different from Chrome with different features, etc.
sgift 12y ago
It was the last Opera with its own rendering engine. Now it is just another UI for Blink. So sad.
- skrebbel 12y ago
  Pretty sad, but as "another UI for Blink" without all the Googleness that Chrome has, it's a pretty damn awesome option. It still lacks a lot of the features that made Opera 12 nice, but it's also the best browser out there, IMHO - Chrome-like performance and standards support, without so much Google-sauce.
- mrweasel 12y ago
  While I would love just to have Opera 12 with the Blink rendering engine, I was rather baffled by Operas decision to drop Presto. I though that their core business was: "Making a small, good and fast rendering engine". That are they suppose to be selling now?
  - tracksmer 12y ago
    Their core business was making browsers in general. Being small isn't that much of an advantage anymore. They can now sell something that works reasonably well on most modern hardware.
lurkinggrue 12y ago
It has a ton of useful features that never came back when they rewrote the browser using blink.

binarycrusader 12y ago

As someone who was left even farther behind with Opera 10.11 (last version for Solaris), I'll never use Opera again: http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=solaris-intel&list=all But more seriously, even if I could get past that, I see no obvious, compelling reason to use Opera when I already have FireFox 29+ available to me.