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Re:Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine... by kmfrk on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @08:12AM (#5779448)
This is a bigger PR disaster than Xbox One. Everyone is criticizing Opera for the gutted features.
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Re:Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine... by Geee on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:53AM (#5780019)
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'.
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Re:Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine... by kmfrk on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @10:17AM (#5780166) 

    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?
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Re:Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine... by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @01:04PM (#5781163)
Slow? It was actually pretty efficient. It ran extremely well on old computers that Firefox and Chrome crawled on.
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Re:Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine... by PavlovsCat on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:34AM (#5785406)
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.

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Re:Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine... by faaaah on Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:59PM (#5795193)
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.
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