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Well prepared to be failed again https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/opera-sold-600-million-chinese-consortium/
Worth mentioning that Vivaldi is basically the spiritual successor of Opera, and it's doing pretty well at that. It's still Chromium based though, so unless you really miss Opera for the functionality you're better off with Firefox.
Still, rather Vivaldi than Opera, Chrome, or Edge.
Oh yeah! I am not using Opera any more, and as mentioned it is "parked" so I only have it installed but never use it . I just wanted to check if the issue was browser based of due to my PC. I have updated my post though, because I found out that I had turned off Hardware Acceleration on DuckDuckgo and that was the issue causing the choppy experience
Opera died the day they had a free and paid version of a web browser.
The first version of Opera was shareware (i.e. paid and free)
Edit: AtariDump is a troll, but to people who aren't:
The old adage "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product" is often true.
Yes, and EVERY other web browser at the time was free.
Why would anyone choose a web browser you had to pay for in the 90’s? There was no reason.
You serious?
NCSA Mosaic, free only for personal use. Dominated the market.
Netscape Navigator, cost money for personal use. Dominated the market even longer.
And if we look past you being wrong, I don't even know what point you're trying to make. Microsoft Internet Explorer was free in the '90s, and it was due to Microsoft trying to wipe out the competition through monopoly.
Netscape navigator was free in the 90’s.
My point is that no one wanted to pay for a browser in the 90’s which forced opera into obscurity compared to IE and Netscape Navigator.
Edit: From your own article “ Netscape announced in its first press release (13 October 1994) that it would make Navigator available without charge to all non-commercial users”
No one cares about commercial licensing.
Couldn't be bothered to read a couple more sentences?
Or if you're more of a visual learner...
Update: and then AtariDump dishonestly changes the timeline and the goalposts. Glad I wasted my time on the troll
Nope.
By the time people came around to the internet it was with Netscape Navigator 3 which was free.
Opera was not.
Oh cool. You're a troll.
Thanks!
Not a troll, someone who thinks web browsers (and, according to l33t Obiwan,) information wants to be free)
Fuck opera for charging for a web browser when every other one was free (when IE 1 came out).
Troll.
Thanks!
Not a troll, someone who thinks web browsers (and, according to l33t Obiwan,) information wants to be free)
Fuck opera for charging for a web browser when every other one was free (when IE 1 came out).