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The new Opera was based on Chromium after version 12.

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  Yes, and Chrome has been based on Chromium since forever; like Vivaldi, its also not a fork of Opera. Being Chromium based gives it something in common with Opera, but doesn't make it a fork of Opera.
  • digi_owl 11y ago
    If writing a web engine from scratch would not have taken a ungodly amount of time and effort, they would likely have done so. That said, the behavior of Vivaldi is closer to Opera 12 than Opera 13 and later is. Basically a bunch of cloudcookoolander UX designers got the reigns of Opera, and has since slowly been crawling back towards what Opera 12 was capable of.
    • dragonwriter 11y ago
      It sounds to me that you are saying that Vivaldi is (approximately) a Chromium-based clone of Opera 12, not a fork.
      • baldfat 11y ago
        Symantics of clone and fork dealing with a closed program that was sold for billions seems kind of pointless.
  • baldfat 11y ago
    It is a fork of Opera 12 in most ways since it has the same feature set attempt. http://winaero.com/blog/vivaldi-a-browser-for-all-opera-12-fans/ http://winaero.com/blog/vivaldi-a-browser-for-all-opera-12-f... Since Opera 12 is a Closed Source program I am sure they will deny it 100%.
    • dragonwriter 11y ago
      That's not what "fork" means.
      • softawre 11y ago
        Metaforkically speaking you're correct.