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Opera sells open-source Chromium browser for $600m to Chinese bods
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| 18 Jul 2016 at 20:07
| Shaun Nichols
Posted on 07/19/2016 8:24:53 AM PDT by snarkpup
Opera will sell its web browser technology to Chinese investors for $600m after a larger sale worth $1.2bn fell apart.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: cybersecurity; palemoon; privacy
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I normally use FireFox, with several security extensions, and with "shields" generally set to maximum. I also like to have a second browser (in its own "sandbox") with less shielding so that I can log on to websites like my bank and a few trusted e-commerce sites that would otherwise require extensive whitelisting.
I have been using Opera as the second browser. I have heard that the sale to China was coming; but it now sounds like it's immanent. I have therefore uninstalled Opera.
I have replaced it with Pale Moon. It takes most of the same security extensions as FireFox (NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger). I've been using it for about a half-hour now and it seems OK.
I thought of installing Chrome; but I have qualms about using a browser associated with a company whose business model is based on harvesting people's personal information and selling it.
Comments (particularly from anyone with more experience with Pale Moon)?
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:24:53 AM PDT
by
snarkpup
To: snarkpup
I thought of installing Chrome; but I have qualms about using a browser associated with a company whose business model is based on harvesting people's personal information and selling it.
But no qualms about using Firefox, a company that fired its CEO for making a private contribution to a political group that opposes gay marriage?
To: snarkpup
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:26:51 AM PDT
by
ptsal
To: snarkpup
China will fill it with every nasty known to China
To: Buckeye McFrog; snarkpup
But no qualms about using Firefox, a company that fired its CEO for making a private contribution to a political group that opposes gay marriage?
I have a similar setup with Waterfox (64 bit Firefox). I have qualms about Mozilla's behavior, but Google's appropriation of data is personally serious, and the people running it are as bad or worse. Safari is worthless for PCs and Tim Cook isn't any good either, and even if Microsoft were good (it isn't), Edge is unusable, and IE is IE.
Sometimes, even with qualms, you wind up taking the best of available bad choices.
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:32:21 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(VThere's no salvation in politics.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Tried Opera for a while, no great shakes. Just uninstalled it. Wasn’t using it anyway.
To: snarkpup
I have been using Opera as the second browser. I have heard that the sale to China was coming; but it now sounds like it's immanent. I have therefore uninstalled Opera. I have replaced it with Pale Moon. It takes most of the same security extensions as FireFox (NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger). I've been using it for about a half-hour now and it seems OK. I have been using Pale Moon for years. It's a solid browser. It diverged from FireFox a few years ago. It has all of Firefox's best features but leaves out some of the trendy missteps. It is actively maintained by a dedicated programmer. I can recommend it highly. ((By the way the word you want here is "imminent"))
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:34:32 AM PDT
by
Blennos
To: Buckeye McFrog
"But no qualms about using Firefox, a company that fired its CEO for making a private contribution to a political group that opposes gay marriage?"
That was my thought, too. But not everybody knows that and I think the memory hole is in operation.
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:35:02 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: snarkpup
So just to clarify, Opera has sold their *Chromium-based* Opera browser. Not the actual Chromium project itself.
To: Dr. Sivana
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:42:00 AM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: snarkpup
Opera hasn’t been the same (i.e. fast, good, etc.) since version 12. They essentially “sold out” and re-packaged Chrome after this. I stopped using it, as it became too slow and bloated; which was too bad since I have used it since version 3, on both windows and unix platforms.
The original developers quit and started up their own company to create a more modern browser that was based on the older Opera. It is called Vivaldi and I think it is now available for download. I cannot say how good it is, as it is Windows only, and I have now totally moved off Windows...
To: ltc8k6
Because when I installed it the 64 bit Firefox wasn’t released yet, and I’ve had no reason to change over.
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:43:26 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(VThere's no salvation in politics.)
To: Little Pig
So just to clarify, Opera has sold their *Chromium-based* Opera browser. Not the actual Chromium project itself.That's what I assume.
"Opera's browser software has essentially been a wrapper around the open-source Chromium, the basis of Google Chrome, since 2013."
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:46:08 AM PDT
by
snarkpup
(Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge - if they aren't already.)
To: snarkpup
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:48:36 AM PDT
by
Batman11
( All Muslims are not terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslim!)
To: LaRueLaDue
Some of the comments at the article suggest that Vivaldi is not yet ready for prime time.
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posted on
07/19/2016 8:50:17 AM PDT
by
snarkpup
(Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge - if they aren't already.)
To: snarkpup
Ah... Too bad. I was hoping that they would be able to “revive” the spirit of the older version of Opera... It was a darn good browser back in the day.
To: LaRueLaDue
Ah... Too bad. I was hoping that they would be able to revive the spirit of the older version of Opera... It was a darn good browser back in the day.I originally got interested in the Opera browser because I heard that (at least at the time) it was the most compliant with W3C HTML recommendations and should therefore be useful for testing website coding. I also obtained (and will be retaining) a copy of Opera Mini. I don't know if it's still supported, but I use it on my desktop computer for testing what my websites will look like when linearized and displayed on variously-sized small screens.
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posted on
07/19/2016 9:01:19 AM PDT
by
snarkpup
(Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge - if they aren't already.)
To: Blennos
I have been using Pale Moon for years. It's a solid browser.OK, thanks. Sounds like a keeper.
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posted on
07/19/2016 9:11:13 AM PDT
by
snarkpup
(Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge - if they aren't already.)
To: Truth29
I dumped Firefox a few years ago for that very reason.
Though prior to that I had a lot of issues with various plugins crashing.
To: snarkpup
Chromium is a virus. I had to go through my registry and search for and delete every line with the word “Chromium” in it to get rid of it.
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posted on
07/19/2016 9:38:10 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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