Opera is Reborn

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Post by riqbal » Wed, May 10, 2017, 7:53 AM UTC

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Post by jameskegel » Wed, May 10, 2017, 7:58 AM UTC

I was under the impression that the rebirth of Opera Browser was Vivaldi, but it seems I was wrong. Bravo, guys. Nice work.

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Post by mrmondo » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:00 AM UTC

I wouldn't be so cavalier about promoting VPN as a potential way to improve user security...

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Post by forvelin » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:04 AM UTC

Looks nice, but doesn't it look like that Opera is tend to reborn every few years or so ?

Still, I was long time Opera user but so far it didn't feel same after they went for webkit. This seems promising, time to try again.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:04 AM UTC

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Post by gagabity » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:04 AM UTC

This reminds me of an interesting thing that happened when I uninstalled Opera VPN on my Android. After uninstalling it automatically opened up a browser to one of those "Tell us why you uninstalled" pages that you normally see on the desktop, this shouldn't be possible on Android.

I think they are doing this by having Opera Browser watch for uninstallation of Opera VPN and possibly vice-versa and when one detects the other has been uninstalled it launches the page, clever but annoying.

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Post by retrac98 » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:04 AM UTC

Where to Opera get their money? Building and maintaining a browser seems like an expensive undertaking, and yet despite nobody I know using or even testing their websites on Opera, they've been actively developing and maintaining their browser for years.

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Post by eps » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:05 AM UTC

So chatting while browsing is the future of desktop browsing? Sounds rather... unambitious.

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Post by stillmotion » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:08 AM UTC

retrac98 wrote: post #7

Where to Opera get their money? Building and maintaining a browser seems like an expensive undertaking, and yet despite nobody I know using or even testing their websites on Opera, they've been actively developing and maintaining their browser for years.

Opera has been using WebKit as their core engine for the past couple of years.

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Post by twhb » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:08 AM UTC

retrac98 wrote: post #7

Where to Opera get their money? Building and maintaining a browser seems like an expensive undertaking, and yet despite nobody I know using or even testing their websites on Opera, they've been actively developing and maintaining their browser for years.

Note that they no longer maintain their own rendering engine, they use Blink.