Opera Reborn 3: No modern browser is perfect, but this may be as close as it gets

'When Opera Software unveiled a new look and feel for its browser
earlier this year, the company made a big deal of the impending
changes. "We put Web content at center stage," the Opera team declared
on its blog. And early previews of the design appeared to be quite
pared down, allowing users to browse "unhindered by unnecessary
distractions" as the Opera team put it.

Well Opera recently released what the company refers to as Reborn 3,
the latest version of its flagship desktop browser, and it's tempting
to dismiss the name as little more than marketing hype. But given the
relentless and utterly unspectacular updates that the Chromium project
releases every six weeks, it can also be hard to denote actual big
releases of browsers based on Chromium—hence the "Reborn"  moniker.
After spending some time with Reborn 3, however, the name seems
accurate. For Opera, this is a significant update that goes far beyond
what arrived with the move to Chromium 60.

Opera Reborn 3—or Opera 60 if you want to stick with version
numbers—transitions a slew of features that recently debuted in
Opera's mobile browsers to the desktop. The big three in this release
are support for blockchain-secured transactions, a crypto wallet to go
with the mobile version, and a new overall look with light and dark
themes available. So if you haven't checked out Opera lately, it's
worth revisiting, especially for those older Opera fans still smarting
about the switch from Opera's Presto rendering engine to Google's
Blink rendering engine.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/review-opera-once-led-web-browser-innovation-it-has-new-ideas-again-with-reborn-3/

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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