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Comment by kmfrk | Hacker News Reader

This is a bigger PR disaster than Xbox One. Everyone is criticizing Opera for the gutted features.

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'.

    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?

Slow? It was actually pretty efficient. It ran extremely well on old computers that Firefox and Chrome crawled on.

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.

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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