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The old Opera with the presto engine for example remembered the search items. Now when the search popup goes away when i load a new webpage, the search box is also empty. Opera has gone down the drain.
I tried out Opera 26 a little bit back. Lousy, no Homepage, they want that on Speed Dial. Even the Bookmarks is now harder to get to. And I could not configure it to show a Menu Bar or change the button layouts. It does seem speedy, but the features I want are not there. Luckily, when I did the install, it installed it alongside Opera 12 .. so a rollback was a simple Uninstall of Opera 26
there is a speed dial extension for firefox and pale moon i use itI am using the new opera now to try out but i think i will make the jump to firefox then. But i miss the speed dial on firefox.
That is what is holding me back.
I have been using opera 12 as well. But i worry about security issues and webpage incompatibilities and opera-presto no longer being supported. Now i have not installed it, but i am thinking about do so again.
not the first time a good piece of software has been sabatoged or simply killed off by the new owners. Have seen this at work on several occassions. A good piece of software replaced with an inferior solution.I too went as far as I could go with 12. I tried the new Opera for literally 2 days I think. Ugh. Too bad the development team felt they had to go down the Google engine road for the jump to 15. I feel Opera would have done better to go down the Firefox road if anything.
Not sure how long it will take, but I am confident there will be energy in reviving Opera at some point in the future. As ugly as it has gotten, I will wait for that day...