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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by rubberstamp on Monday January 11, 2016 @05:37AM (#10880014)
opera has always been innovative browser with good features as long back as i can remember(opera on Nokia s60v3 back then). features like great speed dial on mobile n desktop, save for offline, opera turbo mode, syncing bookmarks between desktop n mobile, website overview mode, text reflow.. I have to use addons with other browsers to have these features on chrome or firefox. Opera has a great team. Has poor market share though. They also had good security. Opera wasn't vulnerable to some big ssl bug discovered a couple of years ago. Most other browsers were. They recently switched their rendering engine to webkit though
Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by digi_owl on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:09AM (#10880127)
And ever since that switch it felt like they had fired all their engineers and got lost chasing some kind of design shiny.

I guess i should have seen it coming when they were gushing about their "coast" concept.

Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by tripzilch on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @04:00AM (#10886290)
they actually did fire about 100 people from the Presto team (previous engine) as they switched to webkit.
Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by digi_owl on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:45AM (#10901644)
well damn, i missed that one...
Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by tripzilch on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:18AM (#10910196)
Yeah. I was a big Opera user (/fan) before that ..