Nekonomicon - Opera goes to the dark side

ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at Feb. 13, 2013, 4:55 p.m...

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2013/02/ ... de-of.html

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tingo
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Wrote the following at Feb. 14, 2013, 4:23 a.m...

Yes, I'm sad to see that they are abandoning their own browser engine.
I hope they can still compete, but I fear for their future.

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GL1zdA
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Wrote the following at Feb. 14, 2013, 6:09 a.m...

tingo wrote:

Yes, I'm sad to see that they are abandoning their own browser engine.
I hope they can still compete, but I fear for their future.

I don't think the rendering engine was their main advantage. I'm not using Opera, but all the people I know, who use it, praise especially its UI and "completeness" (no need for plug-ins).

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commodorejohn
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Wrote the following at Feb. 14, 2013, 10:23 a.m...

Huzzah for creeping assimilation into homogeneity.

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foetz
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Wrote the following at Feb. 14, 2013, 2:15 p.m...

commodorejohn wrote:

Huzzah for creeping assimilation into homogeneity.

unfortunately. variety is vital but i see a decline of that in way too many areas currently

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tingo
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Wrote the following at Feb. 14, 2013, 3:57 p.m...

GL1zdA wrote:

I don't think the rendering engine was their main advantage. I'm not using Opera, but all the people I know, who use it, praise especially its UI and "completeness" (no need for plug-ins).

I didn't say that the rendering engine was their main advantage either. :-)

As others have written about later in the thread, it means that there will be one less rendering engine to test against.
Variety is good!

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Nuke
Who joined Jan. 10, 2012, 6:30 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 6 a.m...

//LATE

Yeah, I was disappointed by this. Variety is being sucked out of the market. I don't like it.

On a somewhat related note, "Don't reinvent the wheel!" is becoming the most annoying thing I've ever heard lately.

bluecode
Who joined Dec. 13, 2011, 7:56 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 6:12 a.m...

Opera doesn't make money. Services make money. So they're working on email hosting and stuff that could make money.

In the meantime I grabbed their old releases for Solaris SPARC. Because some day it will all be gone.

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Nuke
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 6:20 a.m...

Actually, Google pays Opera for the search feature. So Opera makes a bit of money.

ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 6:36 a.m...

Rumours are now circulating that Presto will be open source. Hopefully this includes their earlier releases which, as bluecode points out, ran on lots of platforms. Could even resurrect it for Mac OS 9 ...

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indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
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plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

foetz
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 6:57 a.m...

ClassicHasClass wrote:

Rumours are now circulating that Presto will be open source. Hopefully this includes their earlier releases which, as bluecode points out, ran on lots of platforms.

ah yes that would be nice of course. i remember running opera on solaris once

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bluecode
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 7:09 a.m...

Firefox is still making new builds for Solaris Intel and SPARC. And that's good since Solaris until very recently came with Mozilla 1.2 or something horrible and useless...

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ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 6:39 p.m...

SPARC actually has a JaegerMonkey backend. However, assuming we can get it done, TenFourFox may be the only non-x86/ARM IonMonkey backend (PowerPC). I haven't seen any action from any other arch on that.

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bigred , 700MHz R16K, 2GB RAM, V12, 6.5.30
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indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
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plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

foetz
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 10:47 p.m...

my main interest would be opera's speed, not so much the age. iirc it was much faster than any mozilla at the time i used it on that sparc box

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