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Opera has become the latest Chromium browser for Windows on Arm, fueling industry talk about Microsoft's plans for the neglected operating system. Opera is a niche player in the Windows browser world. Beloved by fans, it is approaching its 30th anniversary. It switched to Chromium just over a decade ago and recently succumbed …

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  1. Blackjack Silver badge

    Opeta was beloved by fans then it started to get worse and worse, coincidentally that started not long after it became a "free" web browser.

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    1. captain veg Silver badge
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      Actually it was quite a long time after it went (advertising-)free, though I agree that it has become worse. This followed the sale of Opera ASA to Chinese investors.

      I speak as someone who paid $40 twice for the browser, once on Windows, then again on Linux.

      If you can swallow the transition to Blink, over which you had precisely no say whatsoever, then Vivaldi is the natural successor.

      Would I pay for Vivaldi? Yes, probably, if it meant them not taking any further coin from Google.

      -A.

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      1. elsergiovolador Silver badge
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        to Chinese investors.

        Did they buy a skin for Chromium? My friend has magic beans for sale, just saying.

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      2. Blackjack Silver badge
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        I really liked Opera 8.5, it even worked in Windows 95!

        Unfortunately starting in 9.1 they atarted to introduce changes I didn't like and when they stopping using Presto and became a Chrome Clone thanks to Chromium I saw no reason to keep using it.

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      Opeta was beloved by fans then it started to get worse and worse ..

      "Opeta was beloved by fans then it started to get worse and worse". Was that when IIS supplied different webpages if it detected Opera. Such that text was shifted one pixel to the left, therefore making it a jagged experience?

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      1. Blackjack Silver badge
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        Re: Opeta was beloved by fans then it started to get worse and worse ..

        It was the browser itself that became worse and worse, I didn't care that much if the Web pages loaded wrong, I used Mozilla, aka what later became Firefox so honesty some Web pages not working well was never a big deal for me.

        I honesty wish so many web browsers weren't Chrome clones. Even freaking Midori because just a skin for Chromium basically.

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