![]() I didn’t like it one bit back then, but years later I can understand they couldn’t have continued otherwise. It’s no longer viable otherwise, and I believe that Opera made the right choice to transition. In today’s internet, only the world’s largest tech companies have the capacity to develop and maintain a browser engine. If you need to run 32-bit Firefox or manually install 64-bit Firefox, you can simply download and re-run the Windows (32-bit or 64-bit) Firefox installer from the Firefox platforms and languages download page. Blink is not such a bad engine overall, and Presto was becoming hugely outdated without the necessary resources to maintain it. Download flash player for firefox for free. You can still manually install 64-bit Firefox, if you choose. Whether anything shady is happening in secret I don’t know, but I would hope that the non-Chinese devs would sound the alarm if it did.Īs for “Google’s rendering engine” – well duh, that’s old news. I don’t know why the Chinese bought Opera (though conspiracy theories abound), but as far as I can tell their entire dev team is based in Norway and Poland, and the company is still registered in Norway and subject to Norwegian laws. ![]() Very much aware of their Chinese ownership, though the company is not ‘dead and gone’ but simply a subsidiary of that opaque Chinese consortium. ![]()
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