Is Facebook Going To Buy Opera? 226
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New submitter x0d writes with this excerpt from the L.A. Times: "The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software. Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street investors, Facebook is trying to solve its mobile monetizing problems and has been gobbling up various companies in recent months to increase its presence in the world of smartphones."
Re:Nice one (Score:3, Insightful)
And that will be the day I will stop using Opera, Desktop and mobile.
Idem. These kinds of occasions underline why it is so important going open source for long term survival.
I love Opera, have being used it since version 7. Its a full featured browser, infintely configurable and really multiplatform.
The day Facebook buys Opera is the last day I use Opera, on smartphones and the desktop. And I will go reluctently to Firefox. But it will be a big regression in terms of configurability and stability.
Re:Nice one (Score:3, Insightful)
Opera Mobile Mini has this option turned on by default, with no option in the GUI to turn it off. I guess if you knew where to look through the files you could turn it off via a configuration file.
Re:Rockmelt (Score:5, Insightful)
I hope not. I actually like Opera.
Re:Rockmelt (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed. This is a Merger / Acquisition that, from a quality of life standpoint, I do not prefer to see.
Opera Mobile is...a very nice browser on my Droid. A very, very nice browser. I'd like to keep it that way (the thought of Facebook posting to my wall with updates based off of my latest webpage viewings is more than a little disturbing; "lightknight said he would be at Ken's BBQ by 5:00PM, but we can see that he accessed Google Maps 21 minutes ago, and his GPS / location shows him at least 47 minutes away. -> 5:01 PM").
Re:Nice one (Score:2, Insightful)
Why? Google is already doing it with Android and Chrome.
Re:Rockmelt (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:Rockmelt (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Rockmelt (Score:5, Insightful)
You like Opera? I love Opera. I've been using Opera since way back at version 2.0. Remember the browser that would fit on a floppy? I even paid for it. Sure, it's not perfect but it's pretty darn good. Now it's endanger of being taken over by a company I personally don't use and can't stand. I would have rather seen it die back in the 90s than to me such an ignominious fate.
Re:No! (Score:5, Insightful)
My, the spammers have mod points as well.
Best to just reset the password on those accounts.
Re:I hope not (Score:3, Insightful)
Since you don't have the source code to Opera, what makes you think Opera isn't also reporting browsing data, just like Chrome allegedly does?
Just off the top of my head, one reason would be because Opera isn't built and owned by one of the world's largest data collection and mining companies.