Opera Add-ons

Bad news!
How long will unite run?
no unite, no opera!

I use both Extensions and Unite Apps. But finding Unite Apps was much easier then finding the right Extension. The side effekts of some Extension are bad to.
I trust more in Unite Apps than in Extensions.

RIP Opera Unite

unite was too cool to use it:) thanks god we still have HFS to transfer files (but you need public ip, and maybe a dns name), cause xkcd.com/949 is really a true story.

Originally posted by Макаров Андрей:

xkcd.com/949 is really a true story.

I have an FTP server, but that only helps if I'm at home. Now think of quickly sharing some content from my phone or something… admittedly I have an FTP server on that too, but the way Opera Unite works could actually make that usable for everyone.

Make it Open Source

Originally posted by TA5K:

Make it Open Source

+1, own Application "Unite". :top:

With every new release we expect Opera to present something truly wonderful, but from the past releases nothing much is exciting its ardent fans!! If Opera just wants to increase its market presence by wooing non opera users, i think it should change its new strategy and stick on to supporting its loyal users. With new statements such as this one, Opera is just gonna force us to look into other options.

What separates opera with other competitors are such unique features. Unite is powerful and very useful. Most of my sharing happens through this medium. Widgets were once popular and i lost interest in them when once they no longer had the option of choosing where to install. I mean now they are by default installed on the system which was not the case in the earlier versions. Opera should have given us options to choose. Not to forget the unstable widgets in the higher releases of opera.

All these apart, i would not want such services to be removed completely, Opera can provide us an option whether to choose or not. After all its the users who experimentwith the browser and the hardcore opera fans would want the same thing.

Opera should really concentrate on fixing issues in its unstable versions , not removing exclusive features.

Strongly Destest!!!!

I freaking love Unite. I'm so dissapointed that Opera is dropping it

Wat do wat do

Sad day!

I sure hope you don't kill the Opera server that makes unite possible (dont have static ip). I always have several Opera versions installed, I am sure I will keep an old version of Opera just to use Unite. If you kill the Unite server at Opera though, I am not sure what I will do.

Why Unite never took off will remain the greatest mystery for me, it had so much potential.

Widgets were amazing too, but year clearly they were dying a slow death.

If only Opera had made a bolder statement and told us "DONT WORRY, UNITE AND WIDGETS WILL BE MERGED INTO EXTENSIONS"

Originally posted by TA5K:

Make it Open Source

I was thinking about it, if some abandoned features of Opera were Open Source, they would have more careful.

Very sad news

Opera widgets engine was the sole of its kind that is cross-platform, the time browser-contained web apps are rising, you had a good platform for standalone web apps and you give it up ?

And Unite, the idea of user server looked very promising at time, I always wanted to have a desktop with a stable internet connection to have unite album and file sharing application always up so i can make my own personal computer my personal site.

Both platforms were, imo, very good and stable, you only had to give the web catalog more attention, filtering their contents according to some quality standards you set, and refining your own ones, like the brilliant e-book reader, the media player, twiget, etc.. All of them had reported issues, if they were fixed you can advertise them as high-end applications.
Can you imagine that you are not only delivering a very good cross-platform browser, but also with it an excellent also cross-platform e-book reader, twitter client, messenger.. with only installing Opera!
Also with Hardware acceleration some games would be really nice if made in standalone widget, or even better if also installed locally as a unite application.

Like some have proposed long time ago, a small start-up tray application that runs as unite server, runtime for widgets, and naturally preload some of the desktop browser libraries then making it loads much faster would have been optimal, I think.
But now it seems Opera only wants to be just like the others, or a bit lagging in the same set of features

It seems like more of Opera fans like Unite than Extensions, most of them don't even install a single extension.
Drop extensions by the way then.

NOT Unite!!!!

Easiest way to share files, EVEN with the popularity of dropbox, skydrive, google drive.

TBH, I'd rather see the torrent feature dropped, and the Unite file sharing feature saved!

When Unite disappears what is there to differentiate Opera from any other browser out there with extensions( i.e. Firefox, Chrome). Opera is the best browser in my opinion (with Unite), we'll have to see If extensions can replace or emulate some if the functions Unite provided to users.

so sad that United will end

Please don't kill Unite

Originally posted by Khaled-Khalil:

It seems like more of Opera fans like Unite than Extensions, most of them don't even install a single extension.

"Our extension technology has been a great success, with millions of monthly downloads, and so far completely dwarfing the other platforms."

Are you blind, or just trolling?

Originally posted by kvaillant:

When Unite disappears what is there to differentiate Opera from any other browser out there with extensions( i.e. Firefox, Chrome).

All the other things that other browsers don't have.

I thought Unite was a revolution
"the web you know, just reinvented"

Other than Opera Turbo and integrated mail the discontinuation of Unite brings Opera feature set closer to the other browsers. From users comments it seems Unite was a feature Opera users liked and have come to rely on.

Really sad

the extensions are sometimes useful, but I will sure miss some unite features , as long as they are not transfered to extensions. 2nd question is: will they work as easy we are used to? For example I don't see how a file sharing should work with nice usability as an extension?

Originally posted by yadavankur:

If only Opera had made a bolder statement and told us "DONT WORRY, UNITE AND WIDGETS WILL BE MERGED INTO EXTENSIONS"

Unfortunately, I *still* don't see the big deal with extensions! I have none installed, but following this announcement I just looked at the "top rated" page...

I see one, maybe two that have some possible use for me - the rest are just fluff and junk.

Unite is a great idea, don't stop it !
It's very useful and allows me to keep my data at home.

Originally posted by MossMan:

Unfortunately, I *still* don't see the big deal with extensions! I have none installed, but following this announcement I just looked at the "top rated" page...

I see one, maybe two that have some possible use for me - the rest are just fluff and junk.

Follow-up: I tried the single interesting looking one on that page... Ghostery. Was interesting to see which sites use tracking and what type it is (interesting that BBC seems to allow a lot of survey-type profiling, US sites are all about advertising of course).

But then... okay, that was fun. None of my sites seem dangerous, so I'm never going to use it again... uninstall.

uuugh Unite is an awesome feature. The quick webserver (and filesharing) is great for someone who just wants to put something up there for people to see. The media and other stuff is neat too. This all better go into an extension. Perhaps the Unite Extension?

Originally posted by AleksOD:

Speaking of focusing on addons - are you planning to maintain the current skin database? It really feels outdated, I can barely use the search on the skins page, and most of the themes are of a really poor quality.

We're including skins + themes in the addons catalog and will be remove the current skin database at some point.

See http://my.opera.com/addons/blog/2012/04/26/jazz-up-opera

It was a though decision to discontinue Widgets/Unite, but user numbers were clear: there were other areas of Opera that had way higher volumes that required our attention. In the end I think we're better off staying focused and building quality products, rather than spreading ourselves thin.

Maybe Unite was ahead of its time. Today there are lots of really good solutions out there for problems that Unite was trying to tackle, including file sharing.

In the end I think this is for the best, and I sincerely hope you agree. There's an amazing development happening in HTML5 and exciting things coming up on the extension side. In order to stay competitive and make sure we all get high quality Opera products, we need to focus.

For a long time (since 2002) Opera use to be my default browser. But over the past couple of years it has become a second browser for me. Main reason for still keeping it is partly due to the 'baggage' that comes with it e.g. Unite, Extensions, Note, ease of import n export of bookmark and not to leave out 'Notes'. Am just guessing if Unite is taken out of the equation without any alternative I might just above let it go as a browser of choice entirely.... R.I.P Maybe?

Or is there something else you guys are not telling us?

Originally posted by spirobind:

Today there are lots of really good solutions out there for problems that Unite was trying to tackle, including file sharing.

What's the good solution for Lounge?

Bad news, I think you should make a Opera version that include Unite, just look to us, we the Opera users, we want keep it. Please.

Widgets went down hill after you had to "Install" them onto your computer. I liked them the old way where they just installed into the browser. Sadly I pretty much stopped using them after that as I didn't want dozens of random programs installed in Add/Remove programs that were really just for Opera.

Unite is sad to hear. I don't use it enough as I should. I think it had the potential to be more revolutionary. Seems as with all things Opera though they just throw great ideas out there and hope they catch on or another company/browser steals them. They never really seem to polish anything up.

Not much to do though, I guess this is the price for using a closed source browser.

Originally posted by spirobind:

Today there are lots of really good solutions out there for problems that Unite was trying to tackle, including file sharing.

Hmmm... I'm not so sure about this. I still have friends and family members try (and sometimes fail) to send multi-megabyte files through e-mail. If it fails, they'll usually drop by with a USB key or CD with the data on it instead.

There are the various third-party storage options, but these same people are not geeky enough to use them or are scared off by the porn adverts, MegaUpload scandal etc.

Personally, I'm not going to sign up for any such service and I don't trust "the cloud" with anything important anyway. Before Unite I would temporarily run a local FTP server and mail the details to whoever wanted to send me something.

When Unite came along it became easier since I wouldn't have to worry too much about setting-up and stopping a separate FTP server. (Don't want it running all the time when I only need it once or twice a year!)

Originally posted by MossMan:

Originally posted by spirobind:

Today there are lots of really good solutions out there for problems that Unite was trying to tackle, including file sharing.

Hmmm... I'm not so sure about this. I still have friends and family members try (and sometimes fail) to send multi-megabyte files through e-mail. If it fails, they'll usually drop by with a USB key or CD with the data on it instead.

There are the various third-party storage options, but these same people are not geeky enough to use them or are scared off by the porn adverts, MegaUpload scandal etc.

Personally, I'm not going to sign up for any such service and I don't trust "the cloud" with anything important anyway. Before Unite I would temporarily run a local FTP server and mail the details to whoever wanted to send me something.

When Unite came along it became easier since I wouldn't have to worry too much about setting-up and stopping a separate FTP server. (Don't want it running all the time when I only need it once or twice a year!)

registrating, porn ads, ... Imagine sharing a file to a colleague at work... -> porn ads... -> Registration all the time, 'cause there're so much services. And everyone uses another one. Even a friend shouldn't be forced to click through these ads or register on on all sites from google, live, dropbox, box, ... to get files. -> +1

Originally posted by spirobind:

Maybe Unite was ahead of its time. Today there are lots of really good solutions out there for problems that Unite was trying to tackle, including file sharing.

Could you please be more specific? I already run things that solve the same problem: i.e., a web server and an FTP server. Combined with a DDNS provider and a reasonably decent router that lets me share things without too much trouble, but that's the exact situation as it was pre-Unite. But is there anything else that makes the configuration consist of effectively no required knowledge thanks to the wonders of UPnP and Opera's NAT? Anything that isn't on my computer (and cross-platform) isn't trying to solve the same problem at all.

I suppose I'll get started by mentioning http://owncloud.org/ which seems to tackle the problem of file synchronization and file sharing, but what about the quick photo album or music player? Those are actually the ones I find hardest to replace, seeing how the likes of http://phpgraphy.sourceforge.net/ require more steps to set up, even if it's pretty much just a drop-in gallery. The instant chat room without bugging people about IRC clients or using some third-party service is also quite nice, but not something I used by often. Still nice to have just in case though. I repeat, the feature as such was available pre-Unite, but setting it all up was just so easy.

Just to be clear: I don't disagree with you. I'd just really like to know what you're thinking of when you say there are equivalents out there, for I'd like to use them. I don't care if it's provided by Opera or not.

OK, developers, then please drop down ALL of the needless bloatware from Opera - Unite, Widgets, Extensions, Turbo, IRC, Mail, Feeds, Torrent, Link, Dragonfly, Voice, Skins, Customizing etc. - and make just very fast compact portable browser.

Dropping Unite would be okay only if Opera can create robust extensions to replace that functionality. Otherwise, I'd expect a lot of folks to keep old versions of Opera around just for Unite (bad idea).

Removing support for Unite and Widgets is a slap in the face for the dedicated developers who've put countless hours complementing Opera. To do so without any consideration and recourse for the users of the Unite Apps and Widgets is absolutely vile.

Originally posted by Slamdex:

Originally posted by Khaled-Khalil:

It seems like more of Opera fans like Unite than Extensions, most of them don't even install a single extension.

"Our extension technology has been a great success, with millions of monthly downloads, and so far completely dwarfing the other platforms."

Are you blind, or just trolling?

If you only checked the links, you would know who is the blind. Next time speak respectfully or shut up, troll.

Originally posted by tinhoy:

Otherwise, I'd expect a lot of folks to keep old versions of Opera around just for Unite (bad idea).

Unfortunately, I am afraid that won't be possible, some of Unite functionality is done Opera servers side, if they dropped Unite completely you won't be able to even login into the service.

Widgets aren't that good, and can be replace by extensions.

But Unite is one of the feature that only Opera can offer, and the end of it will make Opera loose a lot of old fan I think. With Unite, Opera was unique...

I agree with some of the users here. I hardly ever used the widgets/extensions..Unite has been a problem solver for me..

Originally posted by Frenzie:

Originally posted by spirobind:

Maybe Unite was ahead of its time. Today there are lots of really good solutions out there for problems that Unite was trying to tackle, including file sharing.

Could you please be more specific? I already run things that solve the same problem: i.e., a web server and an FTP server. Combined with a DDNS provider and a reasonably decent router that lets me share things without too much trouble, but that's the exact situation as it was pre-Unite. But is there anything else that makes the configuration consist of effectively no required knowledge thanks to the wonders of UPnP and Opera's NAT? Anything that isn't on my computer (and cross-platform) isn't trying to solve the same problem at all.

I suppose I'll get started by mentioning http://owncloud.org/ which seems to tackle the problem of file synchronization and file sharing, but what about the quick photo album or music player? Those are actually the ones I find hardest to replace, seeing how the likes of http://phpgraphy.sourceforge.net/ require more steps to set up, even if it's pretty much just a drop-in gallery. The instant chat room without bugging people about IRC clients or using some third-party service is also quite nice, but not something I used by often. Still nice to have just in case though. I repeat, the feature as such was available pre-Unite, but setting it all up was just so easy.

Just to be clear: I don't disagree with you. I'd just really like to know what you're thinking of when you say there are equivalents out there, for I'd like to use them. I don't care if it's provided by Opera or not.

I think you are trying to show off your skills/knowledge. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and thoughts.. The good or the great thing about Unite was that it was right in your fingertips. No switching applications, nothing none nill..it was all in our favorite browser. Plus, there are service ISP providers that block many ports and Opera Unite somehow was not affected by that hence not limiting the user to stream/share files.

I don't care about widgets, but killing off unite has to be the worst decision ever. It was super useful and it's no hassle approach to sharing files with friends is way better than using a file hoster with their crappy wait times and speeds. PLEASE LEAVE THE UNITE FEATURE IN OPERA! PLEASE! Extensions can't replace unite when they do two different things. I can go on any computer in my house hold and immediately share files. I've instructed friends and family members on how to share files easily with it because it's not rocket science.

Originally posted by oracle2b:

I don't care about widgets, but killing off unite has to be the worst decision ever. It was super useful and it's no hassle approach to sharing files with friends is way better than using a file hoster with their crappy wait times and speeds. PLEASE LEAVE THE UNITE FEATURE IN OPERA! PLEASE! Extensions can't replace unite when they do two different things. I can go on any computer in my house hold and immediately share files. I've instructed friends and family members on how to share files easily with it because it's not rocket science.

Thats how I see it as well. I think that they expect developers to come up with equivalent extensions. That is my guess from what I read.

I hope the functionalities of Unite API and Widget API will be merged into extension API. For example, listening to a port, access local file, and creating separate (widget) windows.

I think functionalities of widgets, unite and extensions separately are not powerful enough. But if their abilities can be combined into a single API, that will be very powerful.

Besides urlfilter, please add more ability to modify opera's functions, settings and UI (eg. menus).

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Ohh dios... todo menos Unite. Era de las características que mas me gustan de Opera

hasta siempre Unite QEPD.

like yahoo! removing services. why no expose the qualities and show to new user. the new themes is poor and the memory use still big. sorry for english

Originally posted by greenpoise:

I think you are trying to show off your skills/knowledge. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and thoughts.. The good or the great thing about Unite was that it was right in your fingertips. No switching applications, nothing none nill..it was all in our favorite browser. Plus, there are service ISP providers that block many ports and Opera Unite somehow was not affected by that hence not limiting the user to stream/share files.

Except for the part where I said I don't care if it's in Opera or not that's exactly what I said: all the things Unite did were possible prior to Unite and are still possible now, but they require much more configuration and knowledge.

I don't care about widgets, but without Unite, Opera is another browser more! It's really useful and fun, don't kill this feature please.

Oh well, too bad. Loved and used Opera because of emails and Unite. With the latest gone, real not sure if I really want to keep a browser only for mail part !