Opera Software Changes Name To Otello Corporation (reuters.com) 55
Opera Software has changed its name to Otello Corporation, it said in a statement on Monday. From a report: Otello owns companies that develop software for advertising, telecoms, games and other online business. The name changes does not affect Opera Software AS or the Opera and Opera Mini internet browsers, all of which Otello sold in 2016, Opera Software AS said in a separate statement.
Slow news day? (Score:2)
Re:Slow news day? (Score:5, Insightful)
Opera used to be great back in the 12.x days. Then they switched rendering engines and lost all the features that made it better than Chrome.
Interestingly there are attempts to recreate the Opera 12.x UI features in other browsers, Vivaldi and Otter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#See_also [wikipedia.org]
Re:Slow news day? (Score:5, Interesting)
I tossed out Opera when they upgraded the Opera Mini with "news feeds" that cannot be disabled.
Because of the following
1. I wanted to save bandwidth having news feeds counteracted that.
2. The "News" was click bait not actual news.
3. It was slowing my browsing experience.
This change from a browser company to an add company is quite apt. Because I don't care to use a browser who counteracts all their positive features with junk. So it runs poorly overall.
Car Analogy: It is like having a Sports Car built with a non-detachable trailer.
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You always need a Car Analogy. Without one is like a Manual Transmission car without an RPM Gage, while not required, it is kinda expected, and useful.
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This change from a browser company to an add company is quite apt.
Good thing they hadn’t become a minus company.
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Bookmarks still suck in Vivaldi (well, depends on your usage), but I have moved over from Opera 12.x. Opera never recovered from their ill-advised change after 12.x, in particular because they were not up to the same feature-set for a long time. (They still may not be, I have stopped caring.) Way to waste a very good niche position.
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Opera still matters. It's a perfect example of why throwing away your own code and switching to "the big thing" destroys your identity.
In this case, it was Opera ditching Presto for Chromium. End result, no change in marketshare, shittier software and a shittier community.
It also shows how FOSS can fill the void when companies fail their users. In this case, my Opera 12 needs are almost filled by Otter Browser.
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uBlock Origin does all the things uMatrix does now
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode [github.com]
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/umatrix-help.388516/#post-2620652 [wilderssecurity.com]
That post is December 2013. The truth is that I am not using uMatrix anymore, I use uBO in medium mode. With 3rd-party cookies and all plugins blocked by default in browser, this is really what works for me.
Re:you forgot ur "h" sakespear (Score:5, Informative)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
What's in a name? (Score:2)
A similar thing happened to a friend. He opened a high-end mail order chocolate shop (one of the places he advertised was in-flight magazines) but used some name whose spelling looked nothing like its pronunciation. I warned him that woul
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I've found companies change names when they no longer want to be associated with whatever crap they tried to pull before. Just look at the Mortgage industry, I've had a house for 10 years and my company has changed names 4 times. Yes, they suck.
Opera Mini is absolutely god awful on iOS and crashes at the thought of a wordpress site, jumbled nonsense on HTML5 sites (if I'm looking at it right). What else is Opera trying to run away from?
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ITT an AC confuses the game with one of the most classic tragic operas.
As an aside, the recent (two months ago) VTO modernized version of Verdi's Otello was great to watch and be one of the behind-the-scenes people. I did grip, supertitle, and production of a custom silk-screened plot device kerchief gift handed out at the doors.
Now that's quite an unexpected ... (Score:1)
... reversi!
doesn't sound chinese enough to me... (Score:2)
Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium for $600 million...
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Which was hilarious. At that point they basically sold the Chinese a bunch of Czech developers familiar with Chromium. Any of the Norwegian devs that were left had already jumped ship to join the Vivaldi project spearheaded by Opera's ex-CEO.
Bad Idea (Score:5, Interesting)
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Check out Otter Browser: https://otter-browser.org/
It's not quite up to Opera 11/12 levels, but it is getting there. It's FOSS, and has been actively developed since the Opera switch...
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You are coming to a tech-site to brag about how you are using a browser that hasn't been updated in 6 years. Good Job.
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Well I am male. That's at least half true.
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