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Interesting link from this article https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/ https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

jsheard 1y ago
> However, Opera's development for the past few years has mostly been chasing trends and splitting resources across multiple web browsers. The first experiment after the company's purchase was Opera Neon, which was introduced in 2017 as a concept for new browser design. It was seemingly updated for a few months and then quietly dropped. Speak of the devil, they just re-announced Opera Neon yesterday but now it's an "agenic AI browser". They're not beating the trend-chaser allegations. https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/05/opera-neon-first-ai-agentic-browser/ https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/05/opera-neon-first-ai-age...
- b112 1y ago
  "Jenkins! Get in here!" "Yes boss?".. "I just had lunch with Roberts, and he said they're putting this AI thing into their software! Make sute ours has some of that"
jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, it's really sad what they did to Opera. It was such a great alternative, and they killed it, ran the company into the ground, and then started doing shitty stuff like in that article. I wish they would have open sourced Presto, but I can't imagine there's any hope that will ever happen.
- mmsc 1y ago
  Presto source code was leaked years ago.
  - jlarocco 1y ago
    Nobody's going to waste their time building a browser around leaked source code.
    - mmsc 1y ago
      I don't think anybody will build a browser over the "released" source code either, if it was officially opensourced by Opera. There were some people from CIS countries doing something with that leaked code, not sure if they still provide updates for it though. There's also https://github.com/PrestoXen/openopera-patches https://github.com/PrestoXen/openopera-patches fd: i used to work for the big O
      - jlarocco 1y ago
        Yeah, but who can say. It happened with Netscape -> Firefox, so you never know. Just maintaining the code would be difficult enough, and Opera not giving their blessing adds a huge hurdle. No mainstream Linux distro will distribute a blatantly leaked project, and it's definitely not going in any app store.

jsheard 1y ago

> However, Opera's development for the past few years has mostly been chasing trends and splitting resources across multiple web browsers. The first experiment after the company's purchase was Opera Neon, which was introduced in 2017 as a concept for new browser design. It was seemingly updated for a few months and then quietly dropped. Speak of the devil, they just re-announced Opera Neon yesterday but now it's an "agenic AI browser". They're not beating the trend-chaser allegations. https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/05/opera-neon-first-ai-agentic-browser/ https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/05/opera-neon-first-ai-age...

b112 1y ago
"Jenkins! Get in here!" "Yes boss?".. "I just had lunch with Roberts, and he said they're putting this AI thing into their software! Make sute ours has some of that"

jlarocco 1y ago

Yeah, it's really sad what they did to Opera. It was such a great alternative, and they killed it, ran the company into the ground, and then started doing shitty stuff like in that article. I wish they would have open sourced Presto, but I can't imagine there's any hope that will ever happen.

mmsc 1y ago
Presto source code was leaked years ago.
- jlarocco 1y ago
  Nobody's going to waste their time building a browser around leaked source code.
  - mmsc 1y ago
    I don't think anybody will build a browser over the "released" source code either, if it was officially opensourced by Opera. There were some people from CIS countries doing something with that leaked code, not sure if they still provide updates for it though. There's also https://github.com/PrestoXen/openopera-patches https://github.com/PrestoXen/openopera-patches fd: i used to work for the big O
    - jlarocco 1y ago
      Yeah, but who can say. It happened with Netscape -> Firefox, so you never know. Just maintaining the code would be difficult enough, and Opera not giving their blessing adds a huge hurdle. No mainstream Linux distro will distribute a blatantly leaked project, and it's definitely not going in any app store.