What is going on at Opera Software?
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What is going on at Opera Software?
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Re: What is going on at Opera Software?
#2Opera ended the day they deprecated their own rendering engine and became yet another Chromium wrapper, which we already have more than enough of.
Re: What is going on at Opera Software?
#3Well that’s all unsubstantiated hearsay at this point, but I think we can all agree that Opera has, sadly, seen its day as a browser.
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#4I wish Opera would open source their presto engine. I'm guessing that isn't possible due to some licensing issues. Personally I find it unfortunate that all that amazing work will be lost. While I didn't use Opera due to it's proprietary nature, as a browser engine it was competitive for its time.
I'm having the same feeling now about the EdgeHTML engine which is now being fazed out. This engine was a breath of fresh air compared to trident. It was bringing value to the internet space.
Granted, I do realize there are perfectly valid business reasons Opera and Edge switched to chromium.
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#5Opera browser is still big on Mobile
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#6Can’t read it on iOS safari, keeps reloading.
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#7Well that’s all unsubstantiated hearsay at this point, but I think we can all agree that Opera has, sadly, seen its day as a browser.
Using it on Android still, as it's the only browser I've found with good text reflow on zooming.
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#8Opera Mini is simply the best experience for compressed mobile web browsing on low-speed connections. I use it when traveling and when my data plan runs out for reading the news and web sites (I don't log into anything because I don't trust the provider, and they have to MITM HTTPS). I'll be sad if this goes away.
I wish there was a self-hosted solution for compressed mobile browsing that I could put on a server. It'll be hard to replace the aggressive optimizations they have done to make this possible, though it's likely I can get most of the way by inlining everything and replacing script and image tags...
Re: What is going on at Opera Software?
#9Opera Mini is simply the best experience for compressed mobile web browsing on low-speed connections. I use it when traveling and when my data plan runs out for reading the news and web sites (I don't log into anything because I don't trust the provider, and they have to MITM HTTPS). I'll be sad if this goes away. I wish there was a self-hosted solution for compressed mobile browsing that I could put on a server. It'…
Should be a fun experience! I used opera mini extensively back before the iPhone got quite big (I think)
Re: What is going on at Opera Software?
#10Opera Mini is simply the best experience for compressed mobile web browsing on low-speed connections. I use it when traveling and when my data plan runs out for reading the news and web sites (I don't log into anything because I don't trust the provider, and they have to MITM HTTPS). I'll be sad if this goes away. I wish there was a self-hosted solution for compressed mobile browsing that I could put on a server. It'…
After a few moments research, I found this
https://github.com/barnacs/compy