tezza Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Opera has called it a day. After almost two decades in the browser business, Opera has officially quit. The developer announced that it is going to adopt the WebKit engine for all of its browsers on mobile platforms, something not particularly surprising,but also that it is stopping development of its desktop browser andwill start supporting Chromium, the open source version of Chrome.Basically, this means that Opera will no longer be developing its ownHTML layout engine, Presto, and that it will slap an Opera label onChromium and call that its desktop browser.There aren't manydetails, but what is there is enough to know what comes next. Opera aswe've known it is dead; the move may turn out to be a great one for thecompany, but it won't be the same company.Without its ownengine or even its own desktop browser, Opera is now just anothercompany that rebrands Chromium and calls it its own browser, on par with Yandex which makes its own Chrome clone, for example.In the mobile space, it will be just another company that takes theWebKit engine and slaps some UI elements on top of it. There are nowonly four major browser makers in the world, Microsoft, Google, Mozillaand Apple, and just three layout engines, Trident, Gecko and WebKit.http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-Is-Dead-Desktop-Browser-Replaced-with-Chromium-WebKit-on-Mobile-329052.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j9ksf Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Looks like big brother has won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanana1 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 R.I.P., Presto ! B) We've had fun and now we keep the memories. :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanana1 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkitOn the same day as announcing that Opera has 300 million users, we're also announcing that for all new products Opera will use WebKit as its rendering engine and V8 as its JavaScript engine. It's built using the open-source Chromium browser as one of its components. Of course, a browser is much more than just a renderer and a JS engine, so this is primarily an "under the hood" change. Consumers will initially notice better site compatibilty, especially with mobile-facing sites - many of which have only been tested in WebKit browsers. The first product will be for Smartphones, which we'll demonstrate at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of the month. Opera Desktop and other products will transition later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanedown58 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 You had a good run buddy. Always liked you but the big bro is stronger so... I'll miss you Opera :sadbye: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majithia23 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 You fought beyond my expectations.RIP:pope: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rach Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 :sadwalk: really love Opera with their innovations, especially their Presto Engine. :sadbye: Presto....http://www.favbrowser.com/its-official-opera-plans-to-kill-its-own-layout-engine-presto/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanana1 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Opera's Presto R.I.P. Press Release here http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2013/02/13/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugo4brain Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 :wtf: Anyway.R.I.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Tried it many times and never liked it. It should improve now but it is still a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrito Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 This is really sad, I liked Opera allot! Although I wasn't using it anymore because they were going through a path I didn't liked.I was still hopping they would change something...RIP Opera :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanbrook Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Sounds Interesting... :showoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesiPirate Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Its actually good news.Problems like website compatibility will be solved.Will wait for the webkit version of Opera and then decide whether to switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 >2013>Opera has no more devs>R.I.P in peace :tehe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 13, 2013 Administrator Share Posted February 13, 2013 :(As I've been saying again and again, you need competition in browser wars. Competition of engine, competition of supporting features, competition of users. They just sold themselves.You guys think this is good for users? Wrong. This is quite the opposite. With one less (major-powerful) browser gone, Chrome won't have someone who goes to it and says - "I don't have the fastest JS in the world, but I surely give the competition to every browser out there". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ande Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Seems that Opera and Netscape share the same fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonliul Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 i've used Netscape & Opera many years ago on local area network........It's time to say bye now, Opera got exhausted. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trancer Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Good Riddance.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zex Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Sad but maybe its for the best... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0nyB Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 R.I.P. Opera as a standalone, unique browser. Though I didn't use it much, it was a fast and reliable browser, that had 64-bit support with the final version officially. Now it'll be just an other Chromium clone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Once Opera became an organ for social media it may have just as well been Chrome already anyhow.At v10 I started ignoring it completely.Their last sane version was v9.23.Their 'M2 mail client' was pure insanity too.Opera had some good ideas, but was never really interested in what users wanted.RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suguru Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Opera dies... Shame... I will still be using it tho. Always hated this stupid numerology of Firefox shit... And maybe later on I'll try Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightWalker Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 I am afraid to see a new "IE6" era with Webkit dominance. R.I.P Opera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Are people misreading what actually happened today with all these "RIP Opera" posts? Presto hasn't been competitive for a while. So they're going to swap it out for Webkit. OK, so beyond increased speed and decreased site compatibility issues, what's really going to change from the perspective of actually running Opera on the desktop? The same features are going to be there. If you use it today, you have no lesser reason to use it then. Unless they put a new skin on it (which they do every couple years), will anyone even be able to tell at a glance that it's any different? So what's all the mourning about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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