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Browser maker Opera has filed to go public
Norway-based company Opera Ltd. has filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. According to its F-1 document, the company plans to raise up to $115 million.
In 2017, Opera generated $128.9 million in operating revenue, which led to a net income of $6.1 million.
While many people are already familiar with the web browser Opera, the company itself has had a tumultuous history. Opera shareholders separated the company into two different entities — the browser maker and the adtech operations.
The advertising company is now called Otello. And a consortium of Chinese companies acquired the web browser, the consumer products and the Opera brand. That second part is the one that is going public in the U.S.
They offer an innovative, WebKit/Blink-based product.
Also at Android Police.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:46PM (4 children)
Last time I used Opera was version 12. It was a long time ago but I seem to recall that Opera with the integrated well working feeds and the lack of bloat being great. Naturally with anything good it has to kill itself, but I recall my time on Opera as some of my best times on the internet.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:57PM (3 children)
I don't know if I can agree with lack of bloat. It came with an email client and torrent downloader (although the torrent downloader was minimalistic).
By feeds you mean RSS? I like the way Firefox handles it as "Live Bookmarks". Chrome on the other hand just shows the raw XML. That and Google killing Reader [wikipedia.org] leads me to believe they are malicious towards RSS.
Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to Opera 12, but nobody here is gonna use it since it's closed source.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:58PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser) [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:12PM
I use Vivaldi at work, because I really like the task manager that lets me view and reload or kill the tabs that start sucking too much RAM. Firefox just grows until it's time to restart it.
It's pretty fast and has adblockers and noscript-like addons. I can live with closed source at work.
Opera has always been about adding useful features (like gestures) and standards compliance.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:02AM
Google Reader was shutdown to raise Google+ popularity. Along with YouTube account hooked to Google+ account. Those were some shortsighted decisions. I'm glad Google+ doesn't pan out as expected.
Google own feedburner/feedproxy, and Google News still offers RSS/atom, so I don't think they are malicious toward RSS.