Opera browser sold to Chinese Consortium

I've been using opera for years and i hope this isnt going to be the death of it.
Thoughts?

I don´t want to loose my browser....

Pretty sure Vivaldi is your replacement.

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Interesting! so do you use it yourself? i see its in beta still, il check it out but i guess firefox is an ok fallback.

I've played around with it but I haven't really used it as my main browser. Not so keen on the closed source nature. It works well though.

I need to look arround again. The only two I am not going to use are Netscape and Chrome...

Edit: Okay, Vivaldi it is! Some features I would like to see are still missing but the panel-feature is great!

So what if its chinese honestly .. Its not like they are going to bork a good browser.. They just need a good browser

+1 I've been using Vivaldi in place of Opera for several months now, and I think it's great.

ive been using it as my main browser for ages and i love it i only use firefox when it glitches out a bit but what do you expect since its a beta

China + Software = Backdoors for dayyyyyyyyyzzzzzz.

Although you could probably replace China in the equation with any Western nation and get the same result.

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Yea well now that I think about it more opera seems like it had been kind of stagnating. Back when I first started using it, it was different and now it doesn't seem much different than chrome. I looked into Vivaldi and it reminded me of what opera used to be like. Il follow it's development and use it occasionally but I've decided to make Firefox my main browser now.

Vivaldi is made by the first CEO of Opera. That's why. Old opera was good up to version 12.17 then they replaced the presto engine with google's blink. And that's what killed it.

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Well...it's been nice knowing you, Opera.

Helloooo, Vivaldi!

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Same here! TekSyndicate Forum just turned into a panel and is now with me through the internet.

I wonder if this topic is worth paging Wendell or Logan to discuss on the next tek episode?

meh, I use chrome and firefox