Opera to be sold to China ...
 

Looks like another european company is about to be sold to new owners abroad - while the Oprea browser already isn't any more what it used to be a few years ago I'm wondering what that means for the Opera store as replacement for the Nokia store ...


http://www.cnet.com/au/news/opera-to...r-1-2-billion/

http://www.business-standard.com/art...1001363_1.html

Re: Opera to be sold to China ...
 

Some of the original Opera devs have stared working on new browser.

Downloaded it yesterday... let's see how it evolves.

Vivaldi, looks good at first play

Re: Opera to be sold to China ...
 

It's (like Opera) rebranded Chrome with altered UI. Only Mozilla Firefox and M$ Edge have different engines (not counting links/lynx/w3m/dillo...)

I only realised that when it asked to save a password the the popup looked like Chrome.

Re: Opera to be sold to China ...
 

Opera Mini is still blooming useful... uses server side compression (goes through a proxy Opera control) that can shrink pages by up to 70% apparently.

Not what you'd want as your only browser (especially for the privacy minded), but extremely useful if you just want to look something up without rinsing through data allowance for pointless graphics, or where your connection is dodgy. Also seems to be very economical with RAM (I assume that's what it is, anyway) rendering pages that crash other browsers on low resource devices.

Hope they keep it running.

Re: Opera to be sold to China ...
 

I'd sell if I were Opera.

I liked Vivaldi quite a bit, but it "feels" heavy and sluggish even on a high spec'd machine. Liking Brave instead - feels light, addresses the ad issues I dislike mostly.

Re: Opera to be sold to China ...
 

PaleMoon browser started out being based on FireFox, but as of version 26 PaleMoon has developed their own browser engine called Goanna.

Re: Opera to be sold to China ...
 

Yeeey, I am typing this reply in Pale Moon :D