Re: "Should I stay or should I go?"
Reply #59 –
@per4mance, fun fact, for long time I was using weeklies as main browser, as there were periods of extreme stability there (at least until HW acceleration... Linux combined with Intel graphics was third class citizen), so changes are more "blurred" from my point of view, as they were often gradual.
I remember that I started to dislike where they are going when they attempted for first time to "catch-up" with Chrome by killing off favicons everywhere except tab handle, while personally I'm abusing list of recently visited URLs (bookmarks? I use the rarely, for stuff to be checked out later, or so rarely that otherwise they would be lost due to browsing history limits) which got disabled by default and was not usable without favicons.
After long and unnecessary tensions (even neutral comments got deleted then) they added some of that stuff back, but disabled by default...
Then there was Opera Mobile 14 for Android, that was scary, total regression, slow as hell, without features.
But almost exactly the same as Opera 15 (WTF bumping number again if they were almost identical?), although the latter performed way better on desktop at least (at least enough powerful ones).