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I guess this was coming. Opera was on a long and painful road to irrelevance, right from when they threw away all their amazing work to become yet another chrom

I guess this was coming. Opera was on a long and painful road to irrelevance, right from when they threw away all their amazing work to become yet another chrome variant minus the most useful features that really made Opera what it was - respected, lightweight, fast, and supremely customisable. As for this acquisition, it's a surefire way of alienating whatever userbase they managed to hold on to. Qihoo is a purveyor of questionable software to put it mildly, their servers are in mainland China and are probably controlled by the CCP/PLA unit 61398, and I sure as hell won't trust them with anything.

diezge 11y ago
Opera has over 200 million users in developing Countries, precisely because of its lightweightness/speed on mobile.
- systems 11y ago
  how would you weight the importance of developing countries (users)
- joezydeco 11y ago
  The infotainment UI in my car (a GENIVI product from JCI and now Visteon) uses Opera as the rendering engine. A lot of cars are (were?) starting to use this.
gsnedders 11y ago
It's been coming for a long time, certainly. But it's surprising it's happened quite so soon: the company is still posting record profits, and despite a large drop in share value in the past year (nearly halving), seems to be doing fine financially.