2026-09-30 11:06 UTC
Opera 12 started to do this. China owns it now and it is based on Chromium.
A couple of Open Source browsers did it for the same reason later and lost users like their was orbital bombardment hitting their project.
Grab a brain… it is not the design language that makes Chrome so successful and if you look and act like them, well users are just going to use them.
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@ebu@awful.systems 2026-09-30 16:46
i, too, dislike it when things are owned by the evil scary China instead of good and righteous Norway
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@daemonspudguy@awful.systems 2026-10-01 20:22
Your chain of causality is comically nonsensical. First of all, Opera isn’t owned “by China,” it’s a publicly traded company whose largest shareholder happens to be Chinese. The company’s still Norwegian. Second of all, that didn’t happen until 2016. Opera Software ASA (now Otello ASA) are the ones who switched to Chromium 3 years before that because they had decided that Presto couldn’t compete with WebKit anymore. I disagree with that decision but that’s what happened.