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At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…
At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…
Wow, Sounds like you used to work at Opera.
@OP: sad story. I am a little surprised, a little disappointed, and sad that it's only a little.
At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…
And if this is the case, it's really sad, I am still Opera fan (many years) and also linux user :(
At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…
I have been using Opera 12 since release and now the dream of having my favorite browser on favorite platform is ruined! So sad! Of course I will have to switch away from Opera on dozens of other devices.
At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…
At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…
Density of advanced users and developers is much higher in Linux world. It is an epic fail to skip such community! I have been using Opera 12 since release and now the dream of having my favorite browser on favorite platform is ruined! So sad! Of course I will have to switch away from Opera on dozens of other devices.
Opera is actually doing their Linux users a service (albeit not on purpose) by not letting them see the travesty of a browser that now bears their name. I wish there was no Opera 15+ for Windows, at least then I would keep the hope for more good versions, instead of knowing that the best browser has died.
By the way, there is a project to create a free browser inspired in O12- - http://www.otter-browser.org/
(optimising the code can be the tiniest things too - I stripped a misguided optimisation just the other day, for about a 10% speedup in some very common operations. Just removing a flag single test as every character was appended to a buffer - even though it meant having to potentially do a malloc and memcpy in the degenerate case - is a win overall in our tests)
At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…
Wow, Sounds like you used to work at Opera.