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Opera 20 is incomplete and can't be used by "Opera users". If you love 20 and consider yourself to be an "Opera user", you must use Opera like other people use Firefox or Chrome. People who want a fast browser I'm sure will love this version. But like many others who have said it already: Opera will not survive without the features that have defined the browser for so many years.

Opera won't survive because you and a few hundred other users say it lacks the essential features you must have? The browser never surpassed 3% general usage for many reasons, one of which was its perception as a geek-oriented browser that while it did many things, it did them in a convoluted, backward way. Opera is a private company that gave away its software for free. We enjoyed its free software and services for many years. Now the company it changing how business is done and whether or not you agree is a moot point. I'm using Opera 20 and frankly I don't see a problem. Then again, I don't sit and endlessly tweak, fiddle, and play with the settings and configurations. The browser is simply there to do its job: get me to where I need to go. One user this morning posted: "Blink-based Opera has the same ugly, cornflower blue tab bar as Chrome. Practically no difference at all. A real deal breaker."

A real deal breaker? Seriously? This sort of foolishness and hair-splitting I'm sure is how many of the complaints are viewed; utterly ridiculous. Some are so bent out of shape over the fact that they can't have their favorite skins that they're threatening to abandon Opera. Skins, no less. We all know how important to our work on line the color of the frames and the shape of the skins can be. Others whine that the new Opera looks too much like Chrome SO they're leaving Opera for... uh... Chrome! Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense.

The new browser is here to stay whether you like it or not. The old browser is dead. Yes, you can continue to use it for the foreseeable future but we all know that over time more sites will become incompatible and the security of the browser will come into question. In short, you're going to have to make a decision sooner or later and remaining with the Presto version is not a permanent solution. The new browser rocks. It's clean... quick... has a great bookmark bar that will accommodate a few thousand bookmarks (no, it won't hold 10,000 but then the vast majority of users don't have such outlandish numbers of bookmarks and there is no way under the sun that Opera needs to concern itself with such minuscule numbers of users). It has a great speed dial that allows folders as well as the new Stash feature. I see it only improving as time goes on and am excited about what innovation that will bring. In the meantime, the browser is perfectly usable and I've no need to return to the Presto version.