Opera is Reborn • Hacker News Board

I've used their browser since a year now, because it has better battery saving than Chrome and some other cool features, like detaching video windows, built in VPN. You can now even use all the chrome plugins with another plugin, in Opera.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by jankotek » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:20 AM UTC

Kholo wrote: post #14

Hey 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 garba…

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Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by zserge » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:21 AM UTC

pawadu wrote: post #18

gagabity wrote: post #6

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 th…

How would this even work? The app cannot listen to system events. (I also think what you said is against Google ToS)

I know that launchers normally detect when the package was installed/uninstalled. That's how they refresh the list of app icons. And launcher is just a regular app with no special permissions. I think some kind of an intent is broadcasted when the list of apps is changed.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by T-A » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:22 AM UTC

we bring you Opera Reborn, the first browser to allow messengers to reside within your browser, without the need to install any extensions or apps

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Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by lucb1e » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:22 AM UTC

I'd like to try, but I'd probably not end up using it because it's not open source. I feel silly for rejecting a product based on that, but openness is important to me. Here's for hoping they open source it soon!

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by Sagane » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:23 AM UTC

I wonder why [.* ]baidu.com, [.* ]facebook.com, [.* ]google.com and [.* ]yandex.com are in the default list of exceptions when blocking ads. Any ideas?

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by amiga-workbench » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:23 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #28

I'd like to try, but I'd probably not end up using it because it's not open source. I feel silly for rejecting a product based on that, but openness is important to me. Here's for hoping they open source it soon!

I don't think you should feel silly for rejecting it for that reason, its a very valid complaint.