> Opera ended the day they deprecated their own rendering engine and became yet another Chromium wrapper, which we already have more than enough of.
The real fly in the ointment for me when Opera ditched Presto was the loss of M2. I have tens of thousands of emails it just handles with little to no overhead. Back when I was subscribed to multiple mailing lists relevant to my job, it just handled those, too. The world of mail clients seems to have thinned out to me, but I haven't seriously tried anything else in awhile. I've been holding out for Vivaldi's M3, but given that they've taken so long to get it done, I'll be surprised if it's ever released.
Opera rolled out a weird always-on VPN and acceleration service built in to the browser so every page was partially rendered on Opera servers. This gave them access to the plain text of pages as sites were rapidly moving to HTTPS. Effectively moving in on the ad targeting business where ISPs used to live.
Building a rendering engine didn't really fit in to that business model.
Fortunately the China sale spooked a ton of longtime Opera users who all jumped ship. Now apparently the husk of the company has been used to grow a lending company.
The real fly in the ointment for me when Opera ditched Presto was the loss of M2. I have tens of thousands of emails it just handles with little to no overhead. Back when I was subscribed to multiple mailing lists relevant to my job, it just handled those, too. The world of mail clients seems to have thinned out to me, but I haven't seriously tried anything else in awhile. I've been holding out for Vivaldi's M3, but given that they've taken so long to get it done, I'll be surprised if it's ever released.