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Opera was great years ago. Now it's just another chrome clone.
by pleasecalllater 8y ago
Opera was great years ago. Now it's just another chrome clone.
- maccio92 8y agochrome clone without google's greedy fingers in all my business sounds like a win to me.
- maxyme 8y agoExcept now Opera is owned by a Chinese security firm so you have to deal with their greedy fingers. https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/18/opera-browser-sold-to-a-chinese-consortium-for-600-million/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/18/opera-browser-sold-to-a-...
- logix 8y agoIt depends if you want the Chinese or the west spying on you. I'd go with the China.
- binomialxenon 8y agoOr, take a third option and use a non-spying browser??
- type0 8y agoHere you go: https://browser.yandex.com/ https://browser.yandex.com/
- Al-Khwarizmi 8y agoUnfortunately true. Although, with the built-in mouse gestures and ad blocking without having to maintain extensions that bog things down, ask for their own updates, etc.; I still find it to be the least bad browser available. Vivaldi is too slow and Otter Browser is not quite there yet. But I still miss Opera 12...
- jchw 8y agoI wish they would've considered going open source instead. Sure, their rendering engine was far from perfect, but it had its advantages, even to Chrome at the time.
- jeffbax 8y agoSame for OmniWeb… still though, I imagine they just had too much of an uphill battle keeping up with the other big 4 engines that it was untenable to maintain Opera's renderer
- earenndil 8y agohttps://git.teknik.io/Zero3K/presto https://git.teknik.io/Zero3K/presto here is the source code.
- jchw 8y agoThat's cool, but also extremely sketchy :) And if it's really just Presto, probably not horribly useful.