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I jumped ship around the time 12 came out. All I remember is that despite all the cool features and my general love of the browser, the one thing it didn't seem

by pandler 12y ago

I jumped ship around the time 12 came out. All I remember is that despite all the cool features and my general love of the browser, the one thing it didn't seem to do well was browse a number of popular websites that I would frequent. That was the deal killer for me. What good is a browser that can't browse?

baldfat 12y ago
> What good is a browser that can't browse? That is the reason why they switch engines from Presto to Blink. This also caused issues with us having a Linux option.
rplnt 12y ago
This is true. They couldn't keep up. I've used Chrome as a side-browser for quite some time already. I understand the need to switch the rendering/js engines, but I don't understand why they couldn't give it some time and keep around what made Opera - fast and responsive full-featured browser out of the box with the ability to customize almost everything.
- tracksmer 12y ago
  They did keep it around, though. Opera 12 is still being maintained with security fixes.
  - rplnt 12y ago
    There were only two updates I believe (in over a year). Hearbleed (update to library) and an expired certificate. I wouldn't call that maintenance or security fixes really.
    - gsnedders 12y ago
      It is security fixes --- there are no known security bugs in Opera 12.17 currently.