Opera Browser with build-in ad-blocker

[Frands]

Hi,

The Norwegian Browser Opera is out in a new version with build-in ad-blocker:

http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/03/native-ad-blocking-feature-opera-for-computers/

[bitbyter]

Browser maker Opera in line for $1.2bn acquisition by Chinese consortium

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/11/browser-maker-opera-acquisition-chinese

[v_v]

All that I can say is wow!  That seems like a lot for an upstart browser that always placed a distant third behind Internet Explorer and Firefox in the old days, and now a distant fourth after the emergence of Chrome.

The old Opera was always my workhorse browser up through the now terminal version 12.17.  When opera went chromium too much was lost and so I began using and rotating a series of browsers with SeaMonkey set as my default.  I still use Opera 12.17 a bit but it is beginning to not work properly on some of the more up to date and modern web sites.

The new chromium (or blink) Opera series also seems to work well for me.  Of the chromium related browsers that I have and use---the others being Epic, Iron, Maxthon, and Slimjet---Opera and Iron seem to work the best as both perform very well and are very fast and smooth.  Yet all the chromium related browsers seem to use a lot of resources when compared to the gecko related browsers, which is why I prefer SeaMonkey as my default.  (All of this usage is primarily on a Windows XP computer.)

When Opera discontinued its native Pronto browser engine there was speculation that they were making such moves for financial reasons, as in they wanted to make more money.  I do not know if this was true or not, but it does seem that the switch to the chromium/blink engine is about to pay off handsomely!

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