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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:15PM (#8955967)
The Opera forums weren't shut down. They were moved to a new location. The chat still exists as well.
The My Opera site was what made people love Opera? Uh... No. Opera 12 had tens of millions of users, and hardly a fraction of those visited that site.
Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:10PM (#8955929)
The new Opera is far more than a buggy hack of Chrome. It has a new user interface which isn't actually buggy.
Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:09PM (#8955914)
Can they?
And even if they could theoretically sue, there's no reason at all to think that they would. This is the former Opera CEO. He's not that kind of guy.
Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:06PM (#8955881)
I tried this a while back (a few months?), and it doesn't seem like it has progressed much. I think Vivaldi has a much better chance of getting somewhere. A bunch of coders doing work on a voluntary basis will have a hard time competing with teams of full-time paid engineers.
Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @03:54PM (#8955792)
A skin is a set of images.
This new browser isn't just replacing Chrome's images with its own. It has new UI code, apparently using web standards. In other words, it's about as far from a skin as you can get.
When you replace images it's a skin. When you write code it isn't - it's a new UI.