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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.

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