Is Opera 12 standard portable or not ?

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

I think that Opera + Facebook article isn't correctly researched.

I'm guessing it would be more like how Nintendo and Opera reached an agreement to use a modified Opera browser in Wii.
Facebook would use Opera's rendering engine, Presto, and build out from there. I'm just making assumptions!

the_watcher · **Joined:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:30 am **Posts:** 140

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/facebook-could-be-looking-to-buy-opera/
Certainly, they've gathered lots of attention (200 comments!!!)

tproli · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 11:25 pm

The newest snapshots constantly freeze/crash here if a flash object is on a page. The flash doesn't need to be clicked on (launched), a banner somewhere on the page can make Opera hang. Very irritating. This rush for the final v12 is similar to v11 back then, which was also very buggy. Very bad practice.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 1:46 am

Especially on youtube... It sucks, yeah...

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3727

tproli wrote:

The newest snapshots constantly freeze/crash here if a flash object is on a page. The flash doesn't need to be clicked on (launched), a banner somewhere on the page can make Opera hang. Very irritating. This rush for the final v12 is similar to v11 back then, which was also very buggy. Very bad practice.

I wouldn't say they are rushing when you compare to the likes of Firefox, where they have to release a stable version every quarter. At least with Opera they don't have a strict deadline and secondly they are just snapshots after all, so don't expect them to be working 100% correctly.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 9:50 am

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/05/28/yas

Aaaaaaaand the first fix of the day iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis:

Quote:

Changelog
Core
CORE-44712 All Facebook API don't work - do not fire onload for IFRAME with about:blank document if navigation elsewhere was started

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3727

Why the long face(book)?

joby_toss · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 7:57 pm

They started fixing facebook issues now, exactly after the rumor got out...it means they're thinking about selling...

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3727

Ah, I didn't put two and two together. Maybe it's Opera's way of being humorous and keeping everyone on their toes.

the_watcher · **Joined:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:30 am **Posts:** 140

guinness wrote:

Ah, I didn't put two and two together. Maybe it's Opera's way of being humorous and keeping everyone on their toes.

I'd like to think that , too

On the other side,
http://blog.gsmarena.com/opera-to-cost-facebook-north-of-a-billion-dollars-analysts-say/

Quote:

Because of various rumors on the matter, Google and other competition have also claimed interest in the Oslo-based company. This led to a 26 percent jump in Opera’s shares today, making the company worth a bit over $1 billion.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 10:22 am

Google? That's a good joke!

But going up 26%? Damn', those Opera folks are clever!

On topic: it's portable but not stealth. :lol:

tproli · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 5:20 am

http://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser

Chrome is out of the game... there can be only one!

joby_toss · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 10:23 am

Do you want to see how that page looks in my Opera 12? :lol:

They have much work to do!

http://i.imgur.com/eYpQk.jpg

P.S. Sorry, no [img] tags, the screenshot is very big... click the link instead...

tproli · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 11:06 am

That's weird, I have v12 too but without the extra additions

webfork · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:29 am

I noticed that Songbird is pushing its business model into the social networking space (left I guess by the gap of Apple's closing Ping service) and it occurred to me they might be looking to get purchased by Facebook. Similarly, Opera is rumored to be for sale to Facebook. That would get them into a variety of mobile areas (past just iOS and Android) where they've caught quite a bit of flack for not having a coherent option.

Assuming I'm doing the math right here and this is a real possibility, I was wondering if you'd keep using if Facebook bought it? If not, what's your 2nd choice?

Is Opera 12 standard portable or not ?

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