Browsers

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer

And Presto is owned by Opera and that's it, right?

Yep, Presto is/was the engine of old Opera.

A Former User

Yep, Presto is/was the engine of old Opera.

It still is - many people do still use Old Good Opera. For now...

A Former User

In reality, there are only 5 primary engine lines currently being used for Windows browsers: all the variants within the KHTML/Webkit/Chromium/Blink lineage, Gecko, Trident, Presto, and EdgeHTML.

Firefox are going to abandon Gecko, aren't they?

So - what are we're gonna be left with then?

Chromium.
Chromium.
Chromium.
Chromium.
Windows' Edge.
:rip:

threatdown

threatdown

In reality, there are only 5 primary engine lines currently being used for Windows browsers: all the variants within the KHTML/Webkit/Chromium/Blink lineage, Gecko, Trident, Presto, and EdgeHTML.

Firefox are going to abandon Gecko, aren't they?
So - what are we're gonna be left with then?

Chromium.

Chromium.

Chromium.

Chromium.

Windows' Edge.

Firefox is not abandoning Gecko, and definitely aren't adopting chromium. They have an experimental new engine called Servo, but it's mainly for research purposes and they plan to integrate parts of it into gecko over time.

A Former User

Threatdown, is that right?

johnbull44

johnbull44

I used Google Chrome for years, then because Chrome dumped Win XP in April 2016 I changed to Opera.

I have found Opera a brilliant browser and IMO is far better than Chrome.

A tiny irritation is that Pricespy keeps coming back on my Speed Dial with every update. I have read the previous threads and did not see any means of stopping this.

Is there any way that the Pricespy Speed dial can be blocked ?

blackbird71

blackbird71

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A tiny irritation is that Pricespy keeps coming back on my Speed Dial with every update. I have read the previous threads and did not see any means of stopping this. Is there any way that the Pricespy Speed dial can be blocked ?

The short answer is "no". The best background perspective thus far lies in this thread, which you may already have read: https://forums.opera.com/topic/14034/unrequested-bookmark-added-to-my-speed-dial

johnbull44

johnbull44

Thanks Blacbird. No big deal, rather than keep deleting Pricespy I`ll just leave it there unloved.

A Former User

Anybody knows anything about 'Yandex browser'?

custdemotest

custdemotest

Anybody knows anything about 'Yandex browser'?

Well, for now is the only browser with a powerful search engine where you can search "how to kill obama" or "kill the monkey" and you won't be in jail after that. That will not be possible after 5-10 years so where is the fun?
Edit: "The whole wide world's got a monkey on its back" - from Kill the Monkey song.

A Former User

Forget about Yandex.

Anybody ever used Midori?
Or is it brand new?

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Midori on Linux has been around a while, it is a webkit-based browser with a UI built on QT. As QT is cross-platform I suppose they must be able to migrate the whole browser to Windows... but I never really used the Linux version. I can't claim it will be any different from Chromium or Opera or Vivaldi.

A Former User

Thank you.

SlimJet has been praised here on the forums, as I remember.
Same site says it's a lightweight browser. Do you think it means it's easy on CPU and/or memory?

A Former User

Midori is fast! :eek:

Had some layout deficiencies having maximised the window (on this site - first one). (Initially the app opens in a rather narrow window.)

A Former User

Imported bookmarks from Opera's .adr.
It's a mess - no folders, no nothing. Search's working though - dropdown full lot of "opportunities" typing in the address bar...

A Former User

Ah! I found the folders.
A bit - teeny-weeny bit - messy still, because the order's different, and till I visit them, no favicons, and the interface might be either - ehem, different, or to get used to it.
Still, no trouble with movie except that - well, might be that site's overloaded with stuff, there exist so unmanageable sites - :XP: .

A Former User

Hi again!
Checked somewhere "there's a new version" - official site, but the question is, file name ends with .tar.bz2 - what the heck is it?
:rolleyes:

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

.tar.bz2 is a standard Linux archive format, comparable to a .zip on Windows. Of course, that probably means the files in the archive are for Linux also.

A Former User

Like - universal?

Dug a bit more there, Steve, and this strange thing: they have two streams/branches (with different digits after the first naught but adjacent), the version I have seems to fall into the one making an impression of being a developer stream or something, but the strange thing is that there is this history, and in this succession my 0.5.8 goes first or about - then goes 0.5.4, etc., .5.7 then .5.9, then whatever.
:party:

A Former User

Midori on Linux has been around a while, it is a webkit-based browser with a UI built on QT. As QT is cross-platform I suppose they must be able to migrate the whole browser to Windows... but I never really used the Linux version. I can't claim it will be any different from Chromium or Opera or Vivaldi.

Well, as far as I can tell, it doesn't resemble Google Chrome much. But it does remind me of some good old Opera though:) I installed it with all the suggested bundled plugins and extensions though... I mean it does have features resembling our good old Opera, yeah:) Kind of not fully developed in places. But I suppose it could get further developed: I registered on and took a look at their support site.