Opera Add-ons

Currently we have "135" signatures, I still have not received feedback from Opera DEV about any compromises. Please continue to spread the word. And to give us idea hit the poll on use.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1398742#poll

Originally posted by regrabables:

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

To the people saying that are going to use other browsers because these features are being removed: others browsers also don't have these features so you make no sense!

Yes, but the other browsers do not have many compatibility problems with web pages.

This makes me want to use Opera even more to support it, both showing websites Opera has users so they have to fix their sh*ts out, and to give Opera the money they need to pay developers to fix their own little faults in implementing the web standards.

There are still tons of Opera-only features, behaviors, and the company ethics (and the intolerable faults of the other browser vendors). All a matter of logic and personal use of course. I'm not wanting to show off, but I wrote in my little blog some reasons why I use Opera comparing it directly to other browsers and I'd like to recommend you to read.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Originally posted by regrabables:

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

To the people saying that are going to use other browsers because these features are being removed: others browsers also don't have these features so you make no sense!

Yes, but the other browsers do not have many compatibility problems with web pages.

This makes me want to use Opera even more to support it, both showing websites Opera has users so they have to fix their sh*ts out, and to give Opera the money they need to pay developers to fix their own little faults in implementing the web standards. There are still tons of Opera-only features, behaviors, and the company ethics (and the intolerable faults of the other browser vendors). All a matter of logic and personal use of course. I'm not wanting to show off, but I wrote in my little blog some http://my.opera.com/rafaelluik/blog/2011/05/28/why-i-dont-use-google-chrome-or-other-browsers-besides-opera]reasons why I use Opera comparing it directly to other browsers and I'd like to recommend you to read.

I have a different view for me Opera is a tool, and I can not wait to evolve to keep up on the circumstances.

The large number of functions that will remove, are precisely why I chose to use Opera, making me tolerate the incompatibility is web.

By removing all these functions, I have no reason to continue using Opera, as it will be virtually indistinguishable from any other browser, provided of course speaking in the practical sense.

Mine is not a philosophical view, but a merely practical. For me the tool has to do the job, there ends the matter.

Update: Now @ 146 joining the cause. Today will load Opera 12 and attempt to force unite. If this works options are to obtain all unite apps and store them locally to run additional test. Its possible to host the files elsewhere and alternate instructions to connect offsite. A similar project occurred with Jazy.net when they hosted a temp server for those on the PowWow Voice Chat client. Although many features were disabled the basic functions overlapped and responded. This is just one of many ideas occurring, note this adjustment will take time for testing purposes. Additional features can be added as we move along.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

Bittorrent client, widgets and irc client can be dropped, but unite... I use a lot this service, is very good to share with friends without upload the content on another services.

I'm sorry for the developers that invested their time learning the API. And now, just because of the decision of maybe someone from the administration department it has to be dropped just like that? That's not fair.

Technically it's very advanced and something I don't know in other browsers. If it was not very used, blame other departments, but an award should be done to the people who worked on it, including people who don't belong to Opera.

Well that was a bust, there is a framework code embeded into Opera 11 that allows any Unite Application to install the Unite base. Unfortunetly, that seem feature is blocked by Opera 12. Somehow Opera Next bypasses the installer and will not install the .UA instead it says Save or Run? So I cheated I copy over al the directories from Opera 11 and that failed to. Still missing the framework. Any ideas how to move forward?

WTF? The whole reason i chose Opera over chrome was the features, and now they take 2 major ones away?! If they take away anything else its back to Firefox for me.

Oh my god, that is a REAL DUMB STRATEGIC DECISION.
Apple already has Evernote on their desktop. Google is embracing & extending, now offering cheap file hosting (caveat: must use their sucky broswer).
Nothing works!
Unite was my only hope!
Now, what will opera do? Emulate Google? You loose.
Emulate Apple? Loose.
What did Opera offer that was original? Stuff like Unite.
What's the problem with Unite? Bad marketing.
Look, Google Docs kind of sucks (Google is ruthless about upgrade - in a year from now, your Android phone will leave you dead in the water - and they aren't all that good either - Docs won't even open and RTF formatted doc, unless you convert it).
Seriously, you want to play the Let's-all-be-move-to-the-cloud-game you can, but you have to offer MORE (i.e., be ORIGINAL - WHICH YOU WERE! And I say that as someone who has used Opera since, what, 98? On every platform you wrote it for - Apple, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD - all those have Opera browsers).
You really disappoint me, and you're shooting yourself in the foot...

I don't agree with dropping the bit torrent client, it is very convenient (instead of wasting time looking for other clients).

We all have different files across computers. Opera Unite was supposed to be one way of sharing those files.

Now, we will be forced to use something like Google's cloud storage. Stuff won't be on our computers, but on the cloud. The problem is, for the ammount of files people have, they have to:
1) spend s**tloads of cash (all those Gigabytes)
2) spend YEARS uploading their stuff
3) give up using the tools they like, to use tools that work with the cloud platform (Google whatever)

So congrats, Opera, you now have showed you are willing to fight this battle with your eyes closed, because INSTEAD OF CONVINCING PEOPLE ABOUT HOW THE CLOUD IS JUST BUST, you choose to drop an advanced product. Kudos to the manager type/jerk who will drive your long term strategy to the ground (it might be a long dive, but you have just given up on your assets, and the Google or the Apple cloud will devour you).

Apart from things like OperaLink I have *NEVER* seen a use for "the cloud" (stupid term, anyway!). Sure, I can leave my files somewhere for me or someone else to pick up - but I'd never trust that method for anything important...

Unite was an easy way to safely serve files and other info from your own device to the web or your friends. It was "unique" in the fact that it provided a range of advanced services with very little set-up required, services which would otherwise require installation of a complex set of applications (FTP server, web-server, etc.). In contrast, installing a torrent or IRC program is quite easy for the average user.

Unite-style services *can* be installed but it was so much easier when it was already built in to Opera... *that* was what made it special!

It's too bad Opera is unique with Unite. It is so great!

How Do you use Unite? Take our poll & Sign the Petition! 160 and growing
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1398742#poll

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

а я очень не доволен то что нет перевода на русском языке!!! хоть и пишет в настройках то что есть и в списке он есть, а все равно все на других языках но не на русском!

Well at least now myself and others know WHEN TO STOP downloading and upgrading Opera if we want to keep our Widgets and Unity. LoL

I for one use and want to continue using Unite but I think the writing is on the wall. Opera has a hiring freeze on and supposedly are intalks to Sell, and sell to whom of all companies FACEBOOK.

If Facebook buys us out, will they keep Unite to enhance its own service? 191 have joined the cause. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

No, Facebook make Pipe which is a Unite in the cloud. More interesting for the company, because you can sell BigData, not with Unite.

Originally posted by kvaillant:

I for one use and want to continue using Unite but I think the writing is on the wall. Opera has a hiring freeze on and supposedly are intalks to Sell, and sell to whom of all companies FACEBOOK.

yes i too if that happens but:

opera has been a great browser and stands for independece, whatever yo develop or even if you take the unite away (that i dont want to) ill still be here using it

if opera thinks that being owned by facebook is a good offer.. i feel that such a things betrays the independence and privacy that opera works for and represents

ihope you guys know what you doing with those changes!

No, please, don’t delete Opera Unite. I like it. It is very handy to share many files fast and simple without uploading it first. Uploading big files is taking very much time, while Opera Unite doesn’t upload anything, and I still can share files with other people on the internet.

Noooooooooo

I have used Opera Unite since the beginning and found it one of the most useful features of the browser. Sad to see it ending?

"12:00 beta build 1438" it is back
Does this mean that it is not removed?

Today we fight with "203" in pursuant of saving Unite. Tactics getting stronger as more users share in multiple message boards and social sites.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

Originally posted by Pamalosebi:

"12:00 beta build 1438" it is back
Does this mean that it is not removed?

back how i have the update but no unite icon plus going to the unite page and clicking installer it launches 11.00 not 12.

Well, its the worst thing you could do IMO.
I use opera since his 9.45 or 9.54's version and, believe me or not, but it changed my experience of web browsing.

BTW @people-that-tought that opera was on its way to be like "cloud based" browsers, i'll answer that opera unite IS the cloud, not as the fake things like opera link, the apple thingy, or google's cloud one... wich are just synchronizations. I'll repeat myself but UNITE is the cloud as it permits to share server based datas and applications with the exertnal. I mean its pretty much data as a service/application as a service.

Well, it was just for information.

The main problem with Opera Unite is that the consumers arent ready for this kind of innovation, they dont even know the existence of Opera, just seeing the percentage of market share...

Well, stopping the developpment for opera unite... and especially to concentrate on (crappy, yes, we must admit it, best extensions were whochan's ones and now they turn into crapness (btw, if someone has old .oex of his/her exts i'll be happy if he can send me download links)) extensions is something i'll never understand.

And, finally, the worst part comes for the grand final of my complain: non happy to stop the devellopping of unite they remove it from the availables services in the suite, coz yes, opera is a suite and unite was the most "impressive" part of it.


OK, as a conclusion, i'm gonna say that Opera software that made so much for the web standards is now making a mistake that will badly affect the web developing , because, if no one is as smart as opera developers to innovate and force others platforms to create facsimile applications (i remember when some browsers copied opera link, and how firefox's logo has now the same behavior of opera's one), what i call web browsing experience will turn into something pretty boring with low enjoyment, as Unite can even be used by professionals witch are not looking for fun but for efficientness (love this word, even if it dont exists).
Regarding on what i said, i'm seeing that opera is becoming as poor in terms of services as his competitor. Sad, but true.

For the hope of all the users of Opera, and all the persons that believe in the cool possibles ways of enjoying their daily internet time, i gently demand to the developer team to keep unite alive, because it worth the fight.

PS: sorry for the poor english, I hope you still understood me and i ask you to think about what i, and everyone of us said.

Kindly, da kitteh

OpenOperaUnited: Preserve Opera! Our fight has changed, we need your help. So far "204" have joined our efforts, but we need more signatures to show Opera to not allow Facebook to take over. Much more is at stake then anyone can imagine.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

It only recently became clear to me how important a feature that Opera Unite is/was in realizing the original vision of the Internet as a flattened peer to peer network with no heirarchies, no middlemen necessary for you to communicate with another person.

Now they are ditching the product, major bummer. I understand their reasons, however the recent rumor of a Facebook takeover just makes me even more suspicious of the actual reasons.

My only problem with Opera Unite is that you had to keep the browser running all the time. I think it would have made more sense to run as a service.

Originally posted by sethfulton:

My only problem with Opera Unite is that you had to keep the browser running all the time. I think it would have made more sense to run as a service.

I think it should have run in the browser by default (for most users, this is enough) with the option to launch as an independent service instead. I also think this is how widgets should have been - instead of cluttering up my system, they could have all sat "inside Opera" unless I chose to migrate them to become separate applications...

I am very sorry that you have decided to abandon the svlilluppo United 's, it was a great opportunity for users of opera

Just Curious

If Facebook buys Opera, will you change your choice of browsers?

http://my.opera.com/kvaillant/blog/poll.dml?id=325562

Originally posted by kvaillant:

If Facebook buys Opera, will you change your choice of browsers?

http://my.opera.com/kvaillant/blog/2012/05/29/facebook-to-buy-opera#poll

No option of "I won't switch to another browser" in the pool. fail

I literally just started using Opera, but it's mysteriously been on my computer for a while. Anyways I totally understand not updating the Opera Unite because it costs money and resources which could be used for other things, but I'm wondering why in future editions you would remove it completely.. It seems to work amazingly and unless you are planning on making extensions that are much much better than these then I would guess that you are going to lose a lot of very loyal users.. and if there are already extensions or whatever that surpass file share and music player can someone please tell me what they are so that when opera decides to make a huge mistake i will be ready for it..

@dougebfresh....owncloud.org is a good one...

If they won't maintain the code they need to remove it or else hackers could find security holes on Unite they wouldn't have the interest to fix, that's the main reason I believe...

This news makes me very sad.

Unite is one of the key features that makes Opera stand apart and above the crowd.

Tempbin, File Inbox, Webcam, Planet Rss, Fridge!
to name a few, oh what the hell: File Sharing, Photo Sharing.

All very useful, and used frequently. While there are a few others that I really would have liked to see finished. Letters and Gridnite for instance. There are more services also that I use. And it isn't that they are Irreplaceable it is the concept of having them available and local. Instillation, and activation makes it so simple.

Taking it out of future versions will prevent me from upgrading the browser until the proxy servers are taken off line and Unite dies completely.

But if it must go, I hope that some of the resources are put into Link, and Voice. Voice my main complaint is the change in the speech engine that happened between versions 9 and 10+
The voice was almost the best I had heard, very nice to have large documents read to me while working on a different program. I can not stand to listen to the new voice. It grates me to the core. I don't even try it any more, and that makes me sad.

Link, as many people have asked, at the very least needs an option to declare which links are uploaded as to keep some private. Not everything from home needs to be downloaded to my work computer.

The Opera Unite removal might have something to do with the report that Facebook is planning to acquire Opera.

And just when I was going to release my new Teleportation app oh well

Originally posted by jhilla:

Today we fight with "203" in pursuant of saving Unite. Tactics getting stronger as more users share in multiple message boards and social sites.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

Done i whant unite to stay!!!

Hello guys! Alternative to Opera Unite is tonido.com.

Originally posted by toytherock:

Hello guys! Alternative to Opera Unite is tonido.com.

nice to see someone doing some "advertising"

will only use if opera unite goes away (i keep the hope that there will be an extension similar to it)

Originally posted by kvaillant:

Just Curious

If Facebook buys Opera, will you change your choice of browsers?

http://my.opera.com/kvaillant/blog/poll.dml?id=325562

60% goes to another browser 40% stays i dont know i think i should leave since facebook and privacy dont mix... but go where? chrome invades my privacy, safari is hipster, and firefox... well dont know about firefox

It's going to be infinitely harder to get friends to upload files directly to my computer, or for my mom to see my calendar and checklist as I update it. :/

Status: We had a Milestone #250 Signatures are trying their hardest to preserve Opera as IS. Change is normally good, but when you take away something that works it causes a abnormal surge. It seems the marketing that was put into Unite was too early, whereas now there seems to be an awakening of interest. It's not to late to see the potential. Continue to get the word out as we strive daily to make those understand around us what we are facing to loose very soon.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

I loved using the web server to make my own websites
Is there going to be any solution for that without unite?

I loved using unite for my websites Is there absolutely no way we can get it back?

You can still use it in Opera 12. Just add the button.

Originally posted by Frenzie:

You can still use it in Opera 12. Just add the button.

And where do we draw the UNITE button? If it is not nowhere in version 12. In the panel "look" - "status" button no longer exists.

This must be a fluke, i updated to RC6 of Opera 12 and you carried over all my settings including Unite! =)

A pity you discontinue Unite.
It really had its uses (and I am saying this even so I have my own web space with 4GB!)
I wouldn't be surprised to see it soon in other Browsers and everyone thinking: WOW, what a great feature (like other features Opera introduced), not knowing it was a first in Opera.
Any chance to keep it alive at least as an optional plug-in/ add-on?