Did they open the Opera's source? They are still more place for more foss browser.
Opera is Reborn
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#12I was under the impression that the rebirth of Opera Browser was Vivaldi, but it seems I was wrong. Bravo, guys. Nice work.
I think Vivaldi is a new company started by the ex-Opera CEO.
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#13Where 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.
Basically, ads. Or that's how it used to be. Search engine makers would bid for being set as the default search engine.
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#14Hey opera folks who might be reading this - work on simplifying offline access to web content. I want to be able to maintain ~100 GB of offline data store, full text searchable. Wikipedia, stackexchange\stackoverflow, khan academy, zealdocs and whole bunch of other sources of useful browser renderable web content provide dumps of their data.
And then they end up having to build spl apps and extensions and other garbage that work around and hack cross domain/local file policy, just so the content already on my disk can be read and searched by the browser.
When such a treasure trove of web content is accessible offline the browser can and should be the way to access it.
As the web becomes more and more a corporate sponsored attention sink strong offline support can be a valuable browser feature.
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#15Where 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.
Actually it's WebKit fork by Google called Blink.
And I do use Opera as a default browser.
The correct Ctrl+Tab behaviour which works like Alt+Tab (switch between the most recent tabs, with a small popup list of tabs) is the main reason for that. Much more productive for me than the usual "cycle over all of open tabs sequentially" behaviour that Chrome, Firefox, and everyone else have (except the Vivaldi browser).
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#16Where 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 is licensed as the embedded browser that powers most set-top boxes.
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#17Looks 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.
If only they decided that their awesome email client should live in a browser again. I still use Opera 12 solely for emails as their new dedicated email client was lacking a large number of features in comparison.
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#18This 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 th…
How would this even work? The app cannot listen to system events.
(I also think what you said is against Google ToS)
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#19Where 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 is licensed as the embedded browser that powers most set-top boxes.
And gaming consoles and smart TVs
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#20Looks 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.
If only they decided that their awesome email client should live in a browser again. I still use Opera 12 solely for emails as their new dedicated email client was lacking a large number of features in comparison.
How secure is that?