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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
 

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

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

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Vivaldi, looks good at first play
 

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Originally Posted by JulmaHerra View Post
Some of the original Opera devs have stared working on new browser.

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

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

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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.
 

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I'd sell if I were Opera.

Originally Posted by gabrielharrison View Post
Vivaldi, looks good at first play
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.

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Originally Posted by badpixel View Post
It's (like Opera) rebranded Chrome with altered UI. Only Mozilla Firefox and M$ Edge have different engines (not counting links/lynx/w3m/dillo...)
PaleMoon browser started out being based on FireFox, but as of version 26 PaleMoon has developed their own browser engine called Goanna.
 

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Originally Posted by ka9yhd View Post
PaleMoon browser started out being based on FireFox, but as of version 26 PaleMoon has developed their own browser engine called Goanna.
Yeeey, I am typing this reply in Pale Moon
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