[tsuujin]

TIL that Opera was rewritten to be based on chromium. That makes me kind of sad.

Not super sad, because I haven’t used Opera in a decade, but still a little sad.

[pndy]

You can head to Wikipedia to quickly check what happen to the company beside browser abandoning Presto and moving to Chromium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)

Personally, I consider this switch to Chromium solidified Chrome and derivatives dominance - with Presto-based Opera there was always a choice. It's also a shame they didn't released the code of this engine.