Opera Founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Resigns

fysdt writes with this excerpt from TechCrunch: "Opera founder Jon S. von Tetzchner has resigned from the company. In an email to Opera employees, von Tetzchner said that 'It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving Opera. As a result I have come to an agreement with the Board to end my time at Opera. I feel the Board and Management is more quarterly focused than me.'"

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Re:Opera is going the wrong way

[hkmwbz]

Opera 3 had rudimentary support, at best. Considerable effort was spent in creating M2 (the mail client in later versions) after the fact when they should have been focusing on the browser.

There was a full e-mail client in Opera 4. M2 came with Opera 7, and has barely been touched for extended periods. For example, until the recent mail panel facelift, it had been dormant for a long time. So yes, Opera has indeed been doing more than just a browser since day 1, and the non-browser parts have often suffered.

Opera lost most of its performance advantage several versions ago.

Yes, because others became faster. They did so by using JIT and such. Then Opera did the same thing, and now all browsers are basically the same performance wise.

But the point here is that Opera is faster than ever. So the claim I was responding to is false. Opera has been focusing a lot on performance, especially since 10.50.

Couple of the many that annoyed me:

Um, Firefox reloads tabs when you start it. Opera uses its cache, as it always has. MDI is useless these days.

The BitTorrent client was built before it was ignored, which was attention spent on something that was never needed.

Whether it was needed or not is none of your business, and not what we are discussing here. We are discussing the fact that you made false claims about how "everything used to be so great", when the fact is that the things you are complaining about all happened when JvT was in charge.

And really, ignoring stuff that needs work is the Opera way in some things.

So basically, you are contradicting your "Opera was so wonderful when Jon was in charge" claim.

Really? You're the one telling me the same mail client has been there all along when it really wasn't. They called it "M2" for a reason, and it wasn't because it was the first version.

Are you blind or something? I never claimed that it was the same mail client. I pointed out that Opera has been doing mail all along. Please pay attention.

Unite is a web server stuck inside a web browser.

...and something Jon pushed for...

Jon was the CEO until last year. Have you EVER heard a CEO go on an interview and say "yeah we're doing this shit all wrong"?

So what you are saying is that your claims about how wonderful Opera used to be under Jon are false?