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It's a shame how far Opera has fallen. From industry leaders with a lightweight web browser with arguably the fastest rendering engine, and one of the earliest
by imiric 3y ago
It's a shame how far Opera has fallen. From industry leaders with a lightweight web browser with arguably the fastest rendering engine, and one of the earliest implementation of tabs, novel web experiences with Opera Unite, most compatible and fastest mobile web browser in the pre-smartphone era, to... a Chinese owned Chrome copycat with gimmicky features and practical irrelevance.
I'm surprised it's still alive, but I guess the advertising business model and these marketing deals are lucrative enough to keep it running.
- lbourdages 3y agoI barely even remember the non-gimmicky Opera. Seems like forever ago, they added a Bittorrent client to Opera, and I thought it was so incredibly dumb.
- jeroenhd 3y agoI actually used Opera for a while because of its built in mail and torrent integration, but I uninstalled it the moment they switched to Chromium and got rid of everything that made them unique. It beat the download manager (remember those?) I used at the time. Their bandwidth saving proxy was quite good when I needed to use it on shitty 3G back in the day.
- josefresco 3y agoYou know about Vivaldi* right? https://vivaldi.com/download/ https://vivaldi.com/download/
- ajdude 3y agoI was so heartbroken when they moved to chrome. That seemed like the beginning of the end