One less rendering engine is very bad for a free and open internet. I suppose that there are at least there are still three viable ones left.
Opera browser switching to WebKit & V8
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Re: Opera browser switching to WebKit & V8
#12Genuine question: now they dumped their own rendering and javascript engines, what are the compelling reasons for using Opera?
Some potential selling points:
Despite not being open source they've long supported the standards-based and royalty-free web.
They have server based compression tech for low-bandwidth usage.
Long history of developing mobile browsers.
They're one the few that make both a mobile and desktop browser on multiple platforms. I use Firefox on Android and it's best feature is that it has all my bookmarks, history etc. from my desktop usage on Linux.