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Interesting link from this article

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

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Yeah, it's really sad what they did to Opera.

It was such a great alternative, and they killed it, ran the company into the ground, and then started doing shitty stuff like in that article.

I wish they would have open sourced Presto, but I can't imagine there's any hope that will ever happen.

Presto source code was leaked years ago.

Nobody's going to waste their time building a browser around leaked source code.

I don't think anybody will build a browser over the "released" source code either, if it was officially opensourced by Opera. There were some people from CIS countries doing something with that leaked code, not sure if they still provide updates for it though. There's also https://github.com/PrestoXen/openopera-patches

fd: i used to work for the big O

Yeah, but who can say. It happened with Netscape -> Firefox, so you never know.

Just maintaining the code would be difficult enough, and Opera not giving their blessing adds a huge hurdle. No mainstream Linux distro will distribute a blatantly leaked project, and it's definitely not going in any app store.

> However, Opera's development for the past few years has mostly been chasing trends and splitting resources across multiple web browsers. The first experiment after the company's purchase was Opera Neon, which was introduced in 2017 as a concept for new browser design. It was seemingly updated for a few months and then quietly dropped.

Speak of the devil, they just re-announced Opera Neon yesterday but now it's an "agenic AI browser". They're not beating the trend-chaser allegations.

https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/05/opera-neon-first-ai-age...

"Jenkins! Get in here!"

"Yes boss?"..

"I just had lunch with Roberts, and he said they're putting this AI thing into their software! Make sute ours has some of that"

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