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Re:Opera CEO: Sale to Chinese Consortium Wasn’t Our Decision by Aeolos on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:54PM (#11179363)
TBH, Opera was a much better browser than either Firefox or Chrome until version 11 or so.

Unfortunately, technical prowess is not enough to gain traction. Being closed-source and costing money (until version 8) was a much bigger factor for their failure.

Still, back then there was simply nothing that was as fast or usable as Opera. Rest in Peace.

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Re:Opera CEO: Sale to Chinese Consortium Wasn’t Our Decision by bananaoomarang on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:28AM (#11180882)
I do wonder what would have happened if they'd open sourced it. The browser landscape might be quite different.
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