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Title: Google to buy opera?
Post by: piratePenguin on 16 December 2005, 01:07: http://operawatch.blogspot.com/2005/12/rumor-google-to-buy-opera-according-to.html (http://operawatch.blogspot.com/2005/12/rumor-google-to-buy-opera-according-to.html)

Slashdot page (http://slashdot.org/articles/05/12/15/1711251.shtml?tid=217)

I thought some of you might be interested.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 16 December 2005, 01:14: Quote
An Opera official outright denied this claim, after I asked about it, saying "Rumors come and go. Google is not buying Opera."

It's just a rumor then

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Perhaps there is a bit of truth to this, maybe Google is collaborating with Opera on some project that we don't know about yet. Who knows?

Possibly, perhapps they're just planning to support Oper more.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Refalm on 16 December 2005, 16:15: I thought Google was a Firefox bitch?
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: MarathoN on 16 December 2005, 17:46: That's probably why they want to buy Opera, so they can eliminate the competition to Firefox. :D
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: piratePenguin on 16 December 2005, 18:48: I've heard people wonder when Google would release a web-browser, but I could never see why Google would want one...

If they did want a browser, Opera would probably be a good buy (and a tough one, probably). They can't buy Firefox. Because they have developers working on Firefox, maybe they'd contribute to Firefox some bits from Opera, or free Opera?

I don't fully get why Google would be so interested in web-browsers.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Commander on 16 December 2005, 20:06: opera is already free isnt it?
or do you mean make all of opera's services free?
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: piratePenguin on 16 December 2005, 20:11: Quote from: Commander
opera is already free isnt it?
Free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) ;)
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 16 December 2005, 20:14: Yeah yeah no body really cares. ;)
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: MarathoN on 16 December 2005, 21:05: I do. :D

Opera is not better than Firefox.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: piratePenguin on 16 December 2005, 21:09: Quote from: MarathoN
I do. :D
Cool, so do I.
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Opera is not better than Firefox.
IYO. Unless you want this to turn into another Firefox versus Opera thread...
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Pathos on 17 December 2005, 00:52: Why not just build your own version from the Firefox source?

Be compatible with all the extensions and not cost a cent.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: solemnwarning on 17 December 2005, 01:58: Konqueror > *

:)
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: worker201 on 17 December 2005, 02:17: I found this interesting extension for Firefox today. You right click on a page, and on of the context option is "View this Page in Opera". Supposed to make it easier to do your web design stuff.

Since we have begun that whole "Firefox vs Opera" thing, I thought I would start a new "Firefox & Opera" thing.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: solemnwarning on 17 December 2005, 02:21: Konqueror!!!
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: adiment on 17 December 2005, 03:34: is Konqueror even good as a web browser? last ime I ran Konqueror and KDE(which sucks) was in 2003 and had many problems.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: piratePenguin on 17 December 2005, 17:10: Quote from: e7ement
is Konqueror even good as a web browser?
Yep, it kicks ass (as a file manager too, and all the other stuff it can do (network folders, storge media)). I just prefer Firefox though.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Jenda on 18 December 2005, 22:16: I seriously prefer Internet Explorer. There is absolutely no risk of avoiding viri, adware, spyware and other malware with it and it even propagates popups. I never have to worry about accidentally removing it either.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 18 December 2005, 22:21: Yes, Internet Explorer - very handy. :D
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Refalm on 19 December 2005, 11:39: Quote from: Jenda
I seriously prefer Internet Explorer. There is absolutely no risk of avoiding viri, adware, spyware and other malware with it and it even propagates popups. I never have to worry about accidentally removing it either.

Try Opera if you didn't like Firefox that much.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 19 December 2005, 14:12: I think he's probably joking. ;)
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: worker201 on 20 December 2005, 00:40: Considering the fact that Jenda is a Linux devotee, I'm pretty sure he was joking too.

Konqueror is pretty good, just like Safari is pretty good. But damn, SeaMonkey is the fucking master, with Firefox being a close second.
Title: MICROSOFT to buy opera?
Post by: piratePenguin on 22 December 2005, 22:09: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BA2B011D7-DBEF-4C8D-8878-3BEF2E593FD8%7D&siteid=google&dist=
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 22 December 2005, 22:14: Same old story a company has an innovative product and Microsoft buys them out. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: worker201 on 22 December 2005, 23:30: If Microsoft did buy Opera, that would be a pretty good reason for me to remove it immediately from my computer.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 22 December 2005, 23:36: Oh no, I might need to switch back to Firefox. :(
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: piratePenguin on 22 December 2005, 23:42: Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
Oh no, I might need to switch back to Firefox. :(
You might have to buy a bigger harddrive, too ;)
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: RaZoR1394 on 24 December 2005, 13:20: I remember that there recently was an article about several companies which pushed Microsoft to buy Opera. Anyone remember it? I really hope they don't. Competition is good, hehe.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: worker201 on 26 December 2005, 02:35: How would that work, though? Opera is an early fork from the Mozilla project, right? I'm not sure how well Microsoft's EULA would mesh with the Gecko engine. They certainly couldn't release it under its own separate license, that would be just too darn legally weird for them - they'd have to combine it in with the rest of the OS.
Title: Re: Google to buy opera?
Post by: Refalm on 26 December 2005, 14:23: Quote from: worker201
Opera is an early fork from the Mozilla project, right?

Wrong ;)
Opera has been there since 1995, and Netscape began to make its products open source in 1998.