Opera

[Drone]

Opera sold to a Chinese consortium for $600 million

The buyers, led by search and security firm Qihoo 360, are purchasing Opera's browser business, its privacy and performance apps, its tech licensing and, most importantly, its name. The Norwegian company will keep its consumer division, including Opera Apps & Games and Opera TV. The consumer arm has 560 workers, but the company hasn't said what will happen to its other 1109 employees.

 

[RejZoR]

I have very mixed opinion when it comes to Chinese. Especially knowing they'll never change...

 

[TonyB]

sorry to pop up a older thread but i was going to try out opera browser , is it safe now that this company own it or best to be avoided ??

 

[qubit]

Opera sold to a Chinese consortium for $600 million

The buyers, led by search and security firm Qihoo 360, are purchasing Opera's browser business, its privacy and performance apps, its tech licensing and, most importantly, its name. The Norwegian company will keep its consumer division, including Opera Apps & Games and Opera TV. The consumer arm has 560 workers, but the company hasn't said what will happen to its other 1109 employees.

So now Opera is owned by the Chinese it starts offering a free "private" VPN service? I'd bet money the Chinese are snooping at all your private stuff going through it.

Have a play with it, but don't do it for privacy.

 

[TonyB]

That's what i was wondering too qubit i was going to try it out for that reason but make me wonder is it safe to even install it on my computer, i like the perks it sounds like a good browser for a secondary one.

 

[remixedcat]

welp, time to tell the hubs to stop using opera ugh.... and why they made the stupid decision to drop what made them and keep the stupid tv and games parts?? sell those if you want the money you idiots!!!!

 

[dorsetknob]

never used Opera sooner resort to Google chrome

Bring Back Netscape

 

[Drone]

is it safe now that this company own it or best to be avoided ??

It's as safe as any other browser. I have no complaints. No crashes, no memory leaks and it's getting updated frequently.

..offering a free "private" VPN service?

It's rather proxy than actual vpn

 

[cdawall]

I still use it. It does much better on the battery in my laptop over chrome.

 

[Drone]

@cdawall Yeah I totally forgot to mention that. You're right


btw here's link for the latest stable x64 version

 

[TonyB]

i got the offline installer from the website what the difference from the one you linked too??

 

[qubit]

It's rather proxy than actual vpn

I saw it reported as a VPN, but ok.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

I use Opera regularly i dont care what the Chinese see me doing, It works like chrome acts like chrome but without the google snooping and ad targeting. Long as the addons still work I will stick with it. Less memory intensive than chrome, faster than Edge for me and in general ive never had it crash or hang unlike Edge / IE / Chrome / Firefox go figure its been stable and it works and if i get to pick who is snooping ill choose the chinese. they are more concerned with what their own citizens are doing anyway

 

[TonyB]

good point when i install this thing is there a way to stop it from importing bookmarks ? i'm only going to use a secondary browser.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Bring Back Netscape

Technically speaking. Firefox is the successor to Netscape... Firefox was created on code taken from Netscape that was rewritten in Mozilla's 'Geko' engine. Mozilla itself is a spin off of Netscape and was tasked on maintaining and looking after Netscape in the early days before they re-wrote the code

 

[Derek12]

Well, we have Vivaldi

 

[TonyB]

response from opera software on twitter here is what they said to me.

Hi, yes part of the business has been bought by a chinese company but the browser is still built in europe and thus underlies european privacy law. /Rosi

 

[NdMk2o1o]

So now Opera is owned by the Chinese it starts offering a free "private" VPN service? I'd bet money the Chinese are snooping at all your private stuff going through it.

Have a play with it, but don't do it for privacy.

Well the eu, UK and US already do this, think I'd rather the Chinese spy on me than my own government.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

Also for those that liked Opera but dont like the Chinese take over try Vivaldi browser, same dev team as Opera but its privately owned lots of new features etc still uses Chromium as a base but dones't sell data to other companies. So for those that like privacy and liked Opera well there ya go.

 

[Kursah]

I like Vivaldi a lot, 1.6 has been very solid. BUT I'm still patiently awaiting sync features which I've read is at the top of their To-Do for 2017 list.

Oh and speaking of, ARS just released an article on Vivaldi doing what Opera should've today.

 

[erixx]

it says ..... "Tatsuki Tomita, Vivaldi COO"... Now, that isn't a Norwegian name by any standards, maybe it is Eskimo

Just installed it after some time not having it, and I love it

 

[RejZoR]

All of the browsers are pointless because they don't have good RSS feeds readers. Firstly, they'd actually need one and secondly, Firefox has the only one which actually syncs the feeds across computers.

 

[qubit]

Well the eu, UK and US already do this, think I'd rather the Chinese spy on me than my own government.

Hmmm, I dunno.

 

[TonyB]

so what you all think , should i use it based off the report respons from opera i posted above?

 

[erixx]

we hear it all time: they deny, then new backdoors are found, or End user agreements are changed and you lose track. Just stay alert for security news...

I don't need RSS, I want a browser with build-in dark interface and night mode, like Opera, let's call it an eye-caring interface. If it is white-ish it goes to the junkyard!