[Elepsis]

As a loyal user of Opera 5-12 (and a grudging user of the new Opera, which I find marginally faster/less full of surprises than Chrome), I love that the article reads like a list of old Opera 12 features that I miss.

At the same time, I'm deeply worried that they believe they have to rebuild everything, including the mail client, to get to their first official release. Opera had a long pattern of rough but innovative releases that took a while to stabilize, and I can't help but believe that with them emphasizing feature completeness first, it's going to be rough for quite some time.

Given the high bar set by modern browsers I'm not sure users--power users especially--will put up with the associated quirks long enough for Vivaldi to gain traction.

[yuhong]

Still it proves that Opera 15 could have been done differently while still remaining Chromium-based.