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Opera was great years ago. Now it's just another chrome clone.

Unfortunately true. Although, with the built-in mouse gestures and ad blocking without having to maintain extensions that bog things down, ask for their own updates, etc.; I still find it to be the least bad browser available. Vivaldi is too slow and Otter Browser is not quite there yet.

But I still miss Opera 12...

I wish they would've considered going open source instead. Sure, their rendering engine was far from perfect, but it had its advantages, even to Chrome at the time.

Same for OmniWeb… still though, I imagine they just had too much of an uphill battle keeping up with the other big 4 engines that it was untenable to maintain Opera's renderer

https://git.teknik.io/Zero3K/presto here is the source code.

That's cool, but also extremely sketchy :) And if it's really just Presto, probably not horribly useful.

chrome clone without google's greedy fingers in all my business sounds like a win to me.

Except now Opera is owned by a Chinese security firm so you have to deal with their greedy fingers. https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/18/opera-browser-sold-to-a-...

It depends if you want the Chinese or the west spying on you. I'd go with the China.

Or, take a third option and use a non-spying browser??

Here you go: https://browser.yandex.com/

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