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Back then they were on the presto engine. Funny I remember the CEO saying they were going to do some really great innovations after moving to blink..

And I believed them .

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You're probably well aware, but for those of who aren't, he moved on to Vivaldi.

Which is itself a disappointing browser. I like the idea, but the execution is bad: mostly, for me, the UI speed. It's molasses, or glue, or <insert other favorite slowness metaphor here>. I had to move to Chrome, and I haven't managed to move back, or to FireFox yet either.

I speculate the cause is that the UI is written in HTML/Javascript, but I'm not sure. Some parts of it have to be tailored per platform, and be natively implemented, I'm sure.

I think most of the opera developers went to Mozilla when Opera ditched presto.

Really? I use Vivaldi as my primary browser and it's never even crossed my mind that it has performance issues. What I do know is that it feels a lot like the original Opera and had a ton of customization options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stephenson_von_Tetzchner

If that's the guy you are thinking of, he was no longer at Opera when they did the switchover.

He stepped down as CEO in 2010, left in 2011, and the switch was announced in 2013.

When the Chinese fund purchased Opera it was based on Blink and had been for about two year.

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