[yareally]

I think you're generally correct about users not caring about the rendering engine for the most part. I wouldn't care at all that they ditched Presto if it meant they retained all the previous features and user interface they had before transitioning. However, I am worried that is unlikely to happen.

Looking at the course Blink based Opera has taken thus far, it doesn't look like they're focusing on keeping current users happy (any new user base is going to be an uphill climb). It's still new, but as a consistent Opera user for almost a decade, I'm very skeptical of them keeping all the previous customization as well as avoiding "Chromisms" in the UI.

[Osiris]

I still use Opera 12 because of the lack of features in the new version. My biggest pet peevs: Ctrl+Tab behavior (Opera default was 'previous tab' now it's 'next tab') and no thumbnails tabs on the left, and they removed the email client.

[Freaky]

While it's lacking the menu, there is at least opera://flags/#activation-order-tab-cycling now.

[yareally]

Yeah, I dislike both of those changes as well. I have a pretty long list of things Opera needs to add to versions beyond 12 before I will update to their Blink version. Until then, I'm still using 12 as well.

[apa-sl]

I'm also sticking to Opera 12, missing quite a lot of features in the Blink version...

[dgesang]

http://operabrowser.wikispaces.com/Features

[nly]

> and they removed the email client.

And the IRC client and BitTorrent client?