Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium for $600M

Post by lucideer » Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 2:38 PM UTC

stinkytaco wrote: post #43

lucideer wrote: post #36

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It does email at least, and maybe bittorrent and chat. The native feel seems largely to have been Opera 12's downfall; they just didn't have the resources/manpower to maintain their own (very brilliant) internals/rendering engine/etc. on top of the power-user UI + featureset. Vivaldi looks to be attempting to recreate the latter (poweruser UI+features) and dropping the former (by relying on Chromium/ReactJS for inter…

I don't see email on their feature page, but I also am not going to download it to see. But I agree, the lack of opensource seems very unfortunate in this case, since closed source is part of what got you stuck here. I guess I'm not power user enough to want to add what just seems to be more or less a different version of Chrome, but I'm glad it exists because I'm glad that some projects still dedicate themselves to…

Post by dezzeus » Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 4:08 PM UTC

Mithaldu wrote: post #78

dezzeus wrote: post #77

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> [...] it also has mouse gestures that are core in the browser [...] > It has one-button keyboard shortcuts [...] > I can configure activation, deactivation of js, plugins (flash, etc.) [...] I can tell plugins like flash to load on demand [...] > I can have a vertical tab bar and a horizontal one at the same time. All of this is still here. > [...] I have 100+ tabs open and the thing sits at 2 GB [...] I'm not used…

Not gonna bother to answer in detail because you are not worth the time, but you're making assumptions without actually knowing how the features work, and you're quite wrong in your assumptions.