>After a previous deal fell through, Opera has reached an agreement to sell the mobile and desktop browser portion of its business to a group of Chinese companies for an estimated $600 million. Opera will retain its advertising business in a bid to avoid a long regulatory holdup.
>The lead investor among the buyers is Kunlun Tech Co., a Beijing-based company that operates the Brothersoft desktop app store and 1Mobile Android app market. They also bought a majority stake in gay dating app Grindr earlier this year as the business tries to expand outside of its core, which is mobile game development.
>The other buyer named so far is Qihoo 360, whose business is less varied than Kunlun's with most of Qihoo's efforts focused on their 360 series of anti-virus products and the ads they sell through them. Both companies are said to be trying to build themselves up to better compete with fellow Chinese corporate giants Alibaba and Tencent.
Well that is one less browser to choose from How many usable browsers do we have now? 1.5?
Alexander Brooks
What is it with the technological field's constant unwarranted fear of anything Chinese?
The fuck are they going to use your precious private data for? It's not like they can order drone strikes on you or SWAT you.
Nor are they building some global search engine based off your browsing habits.
Seriously it makes no sense for some Western web user to be afraid of Le Chinese Acquisition.
Justin Diaz
Firefox Webkit based (chromium based/safari) Internet Explorer based
John Fisher
On mobile, as long as they have built in adblock and Opera Turbo I don't really care who owns it.
Whenever I visit sites that require login, I always switch to another browser.
Justin Edwards
>Brothersoft It's over for Opera. I always liked it although I never used it. It was an underdog. May it rest in peace
Cooper Adams
t.liu kang
Jonathan Torres
>The fuck are they going to use your precious private data for?
To steal my money :\
Julian Diaz
Opera has been dead for years now.
Jonathan Myers
>The fuck are they going to use your precious private data for? You mean your credit card numbers, SSNs, paypal login data? What could the CHINESE possibly ever do with such data?
Michael Taylor
It gives them power I'd like to stay in our hands. It's as simple as that.
Christian Russell
Opera died when they dropped Presto. The thing wearing its skin as a cape doesn't count for anything.
Nicholas Rogers
help me with the memes guys.
why did op write JUST
or was that a mistake
Connor Sanders
There's always Vivaldi.
Justin Price
So Grindr is a Chinese botnet now? What should I use instead??
Elijah Robinson
Shorthand for "Just fuck my shit up", a meme about an ad for a dentist with fucked up hair, who surely must have told his barber to fuck his shit up when asked what look he wants.
Jace Hernandez
chinks are utterly disgusting and they cannot be trusted
Carson Russell
BOTNET O T N E T
Dominic Gutierrez
kek
Ayden Roberts
im still team O P E R A
Benjamin Rodriguez
This.
Elijah Foster
The issue is that the chinese and the russians seem to love putting adware and ransomware on things. Plus the tracking services the chinese use are battery hogs.
Elijah Edwards
opera was my first torrent client
its been a hell of a run
good night my sweet prince
Bentley Hill
Opera is the only browser on android that isn't complete ass and flat out has a setting to force desktop sites (unlike say chrome that you have to activate it for every fucking site and then reload it).
Colton Cooper
I don't know that feeling, since I don't use my phone to browse websites.
Jacob Moore
Would you sell your company to the Chinese for $600 million? You'll never have to work ever again.
Michael Sanchez
Just ask anyone who's ever dealt with the Chinese even indirectly. They're not to be trusted.
Xavier Kelly
Although it's shit since moving to Chromium base, I love Opera. Sad to see this. Looking forward to the development.
Angel Turner
Just move to vivaldi like everyone else already.
Easton Stewart
>node.js also looks like crap
Isaiah Cox
botnet that's under their control? I bet they will shit it with deepin.
Jace Lopez
>opera
Did anyone seriously care about Opera after 12.whatever ?
>Dropped tab stacking, their only real nice unique feature >Back to the retarded looking simplified "options" every chrome engine browser uses
Charles Thompson
I like dopera till it got rid of book marks or whatever it did. haven't been on since
Logan Taylor
Nice try shill. Vivaldi looks horrible, has absolute garbage performance AND it's closed source
Noah Flores
This. I really hope they dont fuck with it.
Jose Hall
>tries to expand outside of its core, which is mobile game development.
China cracked down on that shit. No wonder they are trying to figure out something different. youtube.com/watch?v=8sSeOShvXik rip opera
Camden Roberts
>only $600million to buy the only browser that fully supports the current ES standard, and the only one to support the tail call optimization part of the standard Don't get me wrong. I prefer chromium and firefox, but I don't see why it's only this much
Cooper Rivera
Reminder that Vivaldi exists.
Logan Morris
otter-browser
Asher Thompson
I can vouch for this. My gf (whose father is Taiwanese btw) spent June in Taiwan with her father's family. After her dad went back to New York, she got period cramps and wanted to get something for it. Her uncle and other family said they will take her to a clinic. They ended up taking her to a hospital instead. They gave her something to sign and she refused and wanted to leave. Her uncle signs it instead and they they eventually sedate her and apply meds. Keep in mind she's an adult who was enjoy conscious. This shit wouldn't fly here in North America. Taiwan? Fuck that. I can only imagine how bad mainland China is.
Wyatt Morales
Soo, firefox is ran by sjw's and crome is botnet
and opera is being thrown to the chinks.
Are edge/safari good choices now?
Adam Diaz
>irrelevant browser sold to chinks Just use Chrome you goddamn retarded nerds
Robert Davis
thats botnet tho
Aiden Turner
Nice one parjeet
Nolan Campbell
>durrrr i dont use goggle because dey is stealing my bowser data to improve their search engine,
Leo Hall
...
Jacob Hernandez
whoah they are using browser data to improve their software wtf i hate chrome now
Noah Ross
not pajeetin user, im genuinely asking if these are viable seeing how the two major web browers are a bit shit
Evan White
just tried it out, it's not bad. I guess I'll use that when I browse porn
Dylan Price
BOTNET
Andrew Sanchez
it went to shit anyway after they butchered it by converting it to chrome
Samuel Taylor
so 0.5 ok grim future ahead bois
Jose Phillips
>fewer software updates >lower software quality >shittier security quality >they'll probably steal your passwords and debit card info
Gosh I wonder why people hate the Chinese
Carter Baker
Doesn't matter. The only good browser is already here.
> Proprietary freeware with open-source components
Colton Thomas
listen man we would all love an alternative to current browsers. Vivaldi aint it. Same shit as discord fags. Ill keep mumble thank you.
Wyatt Sanders
Just to make it clear to everyone who has been saying Opera is Chinese since the announcement.
1) As today, Opera isn't owned by the Chinese, the deal failed. All this time, Opera has been Norwegian and the dev team have been from that country, working in that country too.
2) Right now, and until this new deal is approved, Opera still isn't owned by the Chinese. The deal will take a couple of months to be completed, and there is a chance it will fail too.
3) Whatever happen to Opera, the dev team will still be Norwegian until further notice.
Ethan Garcia
How does discord has anything related? You can run that shit on your browser, there is no need to install anything, bro
Ungoogled or no-sync Chromium is the best choice today, sadly
Gabriel Lewis
Opera 12, best browser ever.
Chromium Opera, I used it for some stuff.
Chinese Opera?
Goodbye, Opera. For good this time.
Benjamin Carter
>This shit wouldn't fly here in North America. Taiwan? Fuck that. I can only imagine how bad mainland China is.
In America, they can force you into an ambulance even if you refuse medical attention.
Luis Scott
What kind of idiot would pay $600 million for a Chrome knockoff with 0.5% market share?
Austin Ross
>firefox is ran by sjw's No they're not coming for you.
William Phillips
Maybe try to be straight you disgusting degenerate.
Henry Wood
Agreed. I'm using the old version because it's literally the only android browser that doesn't have shit tab handling.
Landon Ross
Reminder that Vivaldi is utter shit.
Sebastian Harris
0. I want the times when Firefox AND Chrome were good back. When you had to pick which is better for you, not which is less worse. Just download earlier versions of Chrome(before 15) and see for yourself: fast, uncluttered, wonderful. What made me switch in the first place. Now even the new tab page takes a second to load and routinely breaks and displays IRRELEVANT pages, not the ones you visit the most.
Jordan Roberts
>No they're not coming for you.
How do you know? Maybe he's a white hetero sexual male who just wants a good browser without meddling from incompetent clowns "special" jobs had to be created for.
Dominic Stewart
This. Some guy posted a webm on Sup Forums of chinks skinning a dog WHILE IT WAS STILL FUCKING ALIVE.
fuck them
Joshua Price
Posting the why chinks suck post again
Brody Gutierrez
I have been making my own browser from scratch with my own rendering engine for about a year now everyday based on Sup Forums needs, it needs more work but it'll be released in a few months. Omega web browser, Alpha rendering engine. It is built for speed and security, meaning all older SSL and SSLv3 exploits are patched out and all the shit that Chrome does is blocked. I used Firefox before it, I liked it but Gecko was too fucking slow and it had telemetry and spyware in it. My browser is licensed under a non cuck license, GPLv3 and LGPLv3 with some MIT.
Owen Young
If this is true, then about time someone on Sup Forums did something about this shit
Noah Walker
>not Blink based If you deliver, it'd be a breath of fresh air.
Carson Flores
Not a single decent browser exists Vivaldi shills fuck off
Nathaniel White
Wow. If I owned a business, I'd make fucking sure my shit was made in Korea or Japan. What a bunch of gookfuckery that guy dealt with.
>tldr >Chinese people are scammers and liars and they have a catchphrase to prove it
Jacob Walker
blink has security flaws but alpha is just as fast, I spent months on the fucker to make it blink tier
Liam Stewart
Seriously, what were the Vivaldi devs thinking with their UI design?
Jackson White
Anyone remember how quickly you could go backwards and forwards with the Presto Opera?
How hard can it be to implement that again into a new browser? Why not cache the fucking website in RAM and then just load it up again? How hard can it be?
Why do I have to do everything myself for fucks sake?
Aaron Robinson
>What's so bad about chyner user? >Just learn chinese language symbols user
That's you.
Mason Hernandez
dev.opera.com
Isaac Gomez
I bet you wouldn't give a shit about animal welfare if it was some crap happening in the west thought, right?
Aaron White
tried vivaldi. it couldnt do the most basic thing of moving one tab out of the window and onto another screen. is there an addon/tweak for this?
Justin Rodriguez
>having a chromium engine+1%market, it was already irrelevant
David Butler
Usually someone will post
JUST
followed by
FUCK
followed by
MY
followed by
SHIT
followed by
UP
This is where the meme came from. (The billboard)
Ian Taylor
>Right click tab >Move to:
Matthew Rodriguez
>grab chrom- code >make a clone browser >sell it for 600 millions
Tell me how chinks thought buying it was a good idea.
Levi Torres
Opera user here, it's my default browser. Bow to the master race.
Eli Phillips
>They also bought a majority stake in gay dating app Grindr earlier this year as the business tries to expand outside of its core, which is mobile game development. Opera users confirmed butthurt faggots
Eli Barnes
>copying the Chrome look/feel What's the fucking point, tho?
Ryan Cox
There's nothing wrong with Vivaldi.
Isaac Collins
the guy just said the people who are worth a damn dealing with sell lots that are out of the range of normal businesses budgets, is always when you try and cheap out that you get fucked. you tried to be cheap and got fucked, the reputable people require X amount sold or you are not worth doing business with.
Jaxson Thompson
Is this compatible with chrome's extensions sense it basicly is chrome?
Chrome is fucking me over kind of hard right now with no real way to fix it, so looking for alternatives that may work.
So fucking sick of process grouping and no idea how to turn it off again, apparently that's not the term i'm looking for so searching comes up with dick. Would love to move off it, but some extensions I don't want to live without, a few vivaldi i think has built in.
Bentley Martin
I just want a non-Firefox browser with high DPI support. How fucking hard is it to implement it?
Jordan Howard
Just downloaded it. Tried to log in to YouTube. The login page took 10 seconds to load.
Gabriel Ortiz
Thanks for the heads up, removed everywhere.
Protip: On 6.0+ Android Samsung phones ABP has released a plugin for "Internet" - which is basically Chrome. So now you have iOS like very fast ad blocking and browsing.
Firefox Beta is not that bad either with uBlock.
Juan Scott
Okay that's dumb. It's literally Blink engine, same as Chrome.
What about your DNS, internet? Vivaldi UI is a bit tad slow, I do agree, but the engine/page load?
Isaac Cox
What's the point in using Vivaldi when you can just use a firefox fork?
Aaron Flores
Hmm, I just tried loading their forums. Vivaldi takes ~4 seconds to load boards and topics, while Firefox takes ~4-5. Internet isn't great because I'm basically in Africa right now. It seems like Vivaldi taking 10 seconds to load the login page was some weird anomaly. I wish Vivaldi supported high DPI, though. That UI is tiny on my screen.
