Rumor: Opera 14 Desktop Coming Next Month
No version 13.
Now here is something that should be taken with a huge amounts of salt, in fact, so much salt that you can get kidney stones.
Recently, we have received an anonymous tip that the very first public build of Opera 14 (with WebKit rendering engine) will be revealed next month, April that is.
On a side note, it looks like at least one of the Opera employees is already playing with the latest build as he recently tweeted:
Mucking around with Opera 14 desktop, seeing if I can select link text (much required, it seems
And one more thing, it looks like Opera is yet to decide on what to implement and what to leave behind:
The feature set for unreleased products is still undecided.
And now we wait.
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Surely it is huge task to replace engine, and keep all the features. I just hope Dev succeed in keeping the features that defines Opera.
As long as they don’t implement Chrome like speed dial, I will be happy.
Right, Google sniffing replaced by Opera’s sniffing. As Opera is transitioning to being an ad-company make no mistake they’ll mine your data as much as they can.
Firefox is the only truly free alternative today.
As it has always been the only truly free alternative…
Firefox as free alternative? Are you sure? Firefox send data to Mozilla for safebrowsing feature by Google.
Firefox start page run on Google services.
I’d like you to point to references for your claims
As long as they don’t implement Chrome like speed dial, I will be happy.
Bear in mind Opera basically invented the modern web as we now know it (HTML5, CSS all came from Opera house), I have upmost faith in them doing the right things.
Opera is full of smart people, and they know what makes Opera unique amongst browsers.
Not anymore :p
No they kept the smart ones, cleared out all the chaff. You must know how that feels.
Not really no.
AFAIK, CSS was first introduced in IE3.
Finally a good Chromium without Google sniffing is going to be released!! Awwsome. Hopefully this get a respectful market share.
FYI, there are zillion alternatives out there:
Comodo Dragon
SRWare Iron
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“Hopefully this get a respectful market share.”
Yes, because main reason of switching of browser engine is in mobile market. Mobile Opera is 4-5 times more popular as desktop Opera and they can not expand on mobile with Presto because popular mobile platforms have strict restrictions for browsers.
sweet, can’t wait to leave chrome behind and go back to opera
They better dont ditch RSS/Mail Client.
i cant wait to test it out
I still wonder if there would be much difference with Yandex Browser which was Chrome-fork with a subset of intergrated Opera features for a year now, and to some extent may by looked upon as a field-test of early OperaWebkit integration
“Recently, we have received an anonymous tip that the very first public build of Opera 14 (with WebKit rendering engine) will be revealed next month, April that is.”
Awesome news source!!!!!