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I'm surprised that Opera isn't getting more love.

I know! I was about to mention Opera too.

They are just jinxed that way! Do it all right, but just not getting the mindshare that they (in a way, rightly) deserve (despite being closed-source)!

And the browser itself is just fantastic in terms of speed, configurability and performance (despite failing on pages here and there due to no fault of theirs).

Opera Software recently took the decision to leave the old browser-foundation behind for Chromium[0], which may change the things you listed for better or worse. Since Chromium doesn't support RSS natively, it is currently unknown whether it will be supported in future versions of Opera.

[0]: http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-...

I have refrained from making my mind up on that particular development so far (Why webkit?, why not gecko?, this is baaad!, no this is goooood!, blah blah.....etc...). I am simply going to wait and watch that particular development as it unfolds, TBH.

Opera are only replacing their rendering engine with the one used in Chromium, they are not using Chromium to replace their browser. Opera's RSS feature doesn't even touch the rendering engine and is built entirely with their native widgets - but even if they were to put it into the rendering engine, RSS is just XML, and can be styled in any way they want using standard web technologies.

tl;dr: The move doesn't affect Opera's ability to put RSS in their browser.

A better worded reply than my off-the-cuff one. I think I better log-off and get some sleep!

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