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The most powerful feature of Opera, that I'd like to see in new versions and Mobile, Is a "Edit Site Preferences" Allowing one to Enable/disable scripting/cookies/animations/more depending on the site/domain.
Is this possible with the new rendering engine?
firnagzen, Opera 12 uses the Presto engine, that might be it... I know on the desktop versions 'old Opera' can handle 10 TIMES the pages Chrome can. I see no point in running a chrome shell, so once enough pages stop working with Presto engine, I'll say goodbye to opera for good(user since the 90's).
Suppose so, though I didn't mean it as an attack, more of a curiosity, see who was 'transfered'/hired at competitors and follow the influence/money.
Like when MS is about to buy a company one of their executives gets hired on before the sale is official. Silent vetting
just sad to see the most promising 'user control' browser sellout/giveup.Guess the alternatives in development stand a chance, but I doubt compatibility/speed/resources will ever be met quite as well as opera has done in the past.
Ah, I had hoped it would be one more nudge to someone with some pull at opera. I am so disappointed with opera browser new direction I wanted to say something, vs a locked post with cursing up the wazoo. Perhaps a discussion of the actual employee(s) and their motivations to recommending the change? Something surely is fishy going on?
I was wondering if there is any group/leverage around that might be able to persuade Opera Software to release the source code to Opera/Presto engine? Is it even possible, ie: all/part owned by other companies?
I will not be replacing my existing Opera with one running on Chromium/Blink, which leaves me to wonder about my future browsing. For now Opera (10.10 my personal fav/most functional) is still working for the most part, but nothing else available seems to come close performance/resource wise for a heavy use(+-40 Browser tabs/pages). Perhaps theres a community to takeover Presto and keep it running most things indefinably. It would be far more secure since it would be in the minority and exploit writers wouldn't likely bother.
I wonder if an executive at Opera got a briefcase full of cash to switch to Chromium or what? Your thoughts? I just don't understand why opera would handover their independence only to become a graphical shell for Chrome(ie: closing up shop).
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