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Re: What is going on at Opera Software?

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Not entirely relevant but; RIP Opera. It was a competent browser even after it became Chromium based, now few people trust it and even fewer people use it. Hope some of the features I remember seeing back when I used it, especially the ones in Opera GX, make it to other browsers.

It was a competent browser, but it lost everything that made it Opera. They seemingly nuked its entire feature set and it was no better than a skinned chrome.

I still remember the day, roughly 2 years later when the Technical Preview of Vivaldi launched. I don't even remember how I found it, but I've been using it since day one and it has remained a true spiritual successor to what made the original Opera what it was, aside from the rendering engine.

Re: What is going on at Opera Software?

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Makes me sad. Opera was well positioned ~10 years ago to grow and innovate. And such an incredibly passionate and involved community. IMO here's the beginning of the end for Opera when Jon resigned, the investors took the reins and his open letter; https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/opera-founder-jon-s-von-te... Good luck to the Vivaldi team in getting a bit of 'old Opera' back.

Been using Vivaldi since the day they released the technical preview and it has been a wonderful 5 years. It in my mind has been true to what 'old Opera' was and since they released the android app I have completely abandoned Chrome.

Re: What is going on at Opera Software?

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Opera ended the day they deprecated their own rendering engine and became yet another Chromium wrapper, which we already have more than enough of.

Opera rolled out a weird always-on VPN and acceleration service built in to the browser so every page was partially rendered on Opera servers. This gave them access to the plain text of pages as sites were rapidly moving to HTTPS. Effectively moving in on the ad targeting business where ISPs used to live. Building a rendering engine didn't really fit in to that business model. Fortunately the China sale spooked a ton…

I thought this was only true with Opera Mini?
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