![]() I went trough the preferences, grouped my tabs, place the windows where appropriate, reduced the size of icons and page zoom (struggled a bit for the latter, as I want to rely the least on add-ons). I sorted through my 90+ open tabs in Opera, saved them as a bookmark folder, exported my Opera bookmarks as HTML and imported this in Firefox. I sorted a bit the existing bookmarks, made a backup. Of the browsers I use, I’ve made Firefox my default browser last night. Every time it restarted after crash I had to restart it properly otherwise clicking links in other apps had no result.Įverything put together, the cost of troubleshooting overpowers the rest, and the browser has already become foreign to me as much of the rock star features that truly made Opera my default browser are not yet available in the current release. It would crash and crash while restarting. It would crash both during usage or when running in the background. For some reason, Opera has become even less stable on my machine during the Fall or Winter. Up to a certain point, there was no more satisfaction in having yet another bug to work around.Īn act of faith, I wrote. I have had strange bugs, common bugs, found work-arounds, etc. Most of which is mail storage, but still, that too was migrated in each major Opera update. The Opera folder that is in my Library/Application Support/ folder has 144K items and occupies 8.17 GB on disk. I have migrated the same profile over the years –ten years. Although there is still a little dev planned for the Opera 12.x series, it is a matter of time until Opera suggests its users upgrade to the Chromium based version.īut already before that, my using Opera had become an act of faith. Opera then shipped a stand-alone Mail application, which I’ve been using since then. Grouping and pinning of messages (11.60)īetween Opera and I, it’s become complicatedĪ few months back I heard the news that Opera was going to ship a browser based on a different engine (It has started in the meantime).Follow/Ignore threads and contacts (9.60). ![]() Alternative tab-closing behaviors (9.50).RSS newsfeeds (7.50) & Atom news feeder support (8.0). ![]() I’m scanning the Opera version history, and peruse the list of wonderful features my browser had. As I was using Opera M2 (the built-in mail client) it very soon became my default browser, all the way through Opera 12.16, until last night. It is a big deal for me and using Opera is so ingrained that I have a bit of a writer’s block. I made a big jump last night when I transitioned from Opera to Firefox as default browser.
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