New Opera

[urrlord]

I've been a user of Opera desktop for years.A few months back my desktop died and I inherited my mother in laws laptop after her passing.The laptop had IE ,Chrome, Firefox and Safari on it.Not a great fan of any of them so I recently downloaded Opera .

What I got was not the Opera I was familiar with.What I got was a Google browser.
WTH?

If I wanted Google I would have fired up Chrome.
It's sad watching a company commit public suicide.

 

[chad8]

On 12 February 2013, Opera announced it would drop its Presto engine and transition its web browsers to use WebKit as implemented by Google's Chrome browser by means of code from the Chromium project. Opera Software also planned to contribute code to WebKit as well.[43] On 3 April 2013, Google announced that it would fork components from WebKit to form a new rendering engine known as Blink; the same day, Opera confirmed that it would follow Google in implementing Blink.[44]

On 28 May 2013, a beta release of Opera 15 was made available,[45] notable as being the first version based on the Chromium project.[46][47] Many distinctive features of the previous versions are no longer present, while Opera Mail has been split into a standalone application derived from Opera 12.[48]

 

[antiqueshell]

I'm using Opera 17 and it does in fact look like Chrome from 4 or so years ago, simple, basic, and light weight, so it is very responsive, more so than Google Chrome.

I do have a concern about the closeness between Google and Chromium though, I personally am very suspicious of Google and their motives, not a good company, they have stopped using their old motto "Don't be evil" some time ago. No surprise there because I consider Google to be evil.

The old non Chrome based Opera was a good engine and it is sad that they decided not to continue developing it.

 

[urrlord]

I hear ya antiqueshell.I have concerns about Google myself.I do a lot of surfing and Opera was hands down the fastest out there.Up to a half second quicker per search/display.This new version I have not tested yet.

But,NO BOOKMARKS? really?Who does that?I had bookmark issues with Firefox which led to my use of Opera.(years back there was a bad update of fox that led to random dumping of bookmarks)

 

[blupupher]

I am sticking with Opera 12.16 till they fix the "new" Opera.
I need bookmarks and really enjoy having Opera Link.

you can still download Opera 12.16 if you want.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
I do have a concern about the closeness between Google and Chromium though, I personally am very suspicious of Google and their motives, not a good company, they have stopped using their old motto "Don't be evil" some time ago. No surprise there because I consider Google to be evil.


Chromium is open source. There is apparently nothing in there that raises red flags among the thousands of pairs of eyes watching it who are not associated in any way with Google. Chrome, on the other hand, allegedly only adds some crash reporting, built-in Flash (tm) support and built-in PDF (tm) support; but not being open source, who's to say?

Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
The old non Chrome based Opera was a good engine and it is sad that they decided not to continue developing it.


Me, too; but web standards are a rapidly moving target and WebKit - which is just a rendering engine - is a really well-done piece of stuff. I wouldn't want to try to maintain an entire rendering engine that is NOT open source (ie. it's just your little team working on it) and try to have it keep pace with WebKit and Gecko.