Re: How to make Opera 12.10 not crawl?

On 11/26/2012 05:09 AM, Agon Buchholz wrote:
> The performance issues are still not fixed in Opera 12.11, build 1661,
> so Opera has become a major productivity killer for me, and it seems to
> be time to move to another browser.

Sadly I'm moving in a similar direction after being an outspoken 
advocate of Opera since my college days, when it was ad-supported. 
Apologies for the rant, but...

My primarily reason is the hilariously bad Flash plugin painting under 
64-bit, which I remember reporting but can't find the DSK- number for. 
For an example of the Flash plugin being painted entirely outside the 
Opera window, across two different monitors, see
   http://kyhm.com/tmp/wtf-opera.jpg

Other bugs I've reported have been half-fixed (DSK-298078), have 
regressed/returned (DSK-314446), or are new (DSK-378697: as of 12.10, 
zooming in with a keyboard shortcut while at the top of some "endless" 
pages jumps to the bottom of the page and loads the next chunk).  These 
last two suggest to me that Opera's codebase is reaching the limits of 
stability and QA coverage.

I'd love to be proven wrong on this, but my read is that Opera's not 
improved overall since v10, and is losing ground in places.  When I have 
the time I'm going to try out a Chromium-based browser, probably Iron, 
and scope the effort to implement the features I like in Opera which 
aren't already there.


> If someone has an idea how I can get my stored passwords out of Opera,
> I'm all ears.

There's a proof-of-concept tool out there called unwand; it needed some 
finishing to compile on my distro of choice, but it works.  AFAIK, it 
does not work when you're using Opera Link, since the local password 
storage is encrypted, but then you should be able to get your passwords 
out of the Link server.

Morgan
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