Facebook Looking to Buy Opera Software?

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Rumors from several knowledgeable sources are speculating about Facebook’s next logical acquisition. Many indicators point to the strong possibility Facebook is interested in buying Opera Software, parent company of Opera browser.

The Facebook IPO has gone less than smoothly, and there are investors to please. Mobile products are the road to revenue for the company, and an Opera acquisition just makes sense.
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Oh I hope this doesn't happen, I have been using Opera for over 5+ years now and like the browser. I can only imagine how much Facebook would screw up the browser with all their one click buttons to Facebook areas.

:mad:
 
Yeah I hope this doesnt go thru as well. I use the Opera Mobile browser on my Android phone and it is by far and away the best browser you can get for the Android phones. The desktop browser is pretty good but not quite as smooth as Firefox so I generally use it. I cant imagine how bad Facebook would screw it up.

I used to check in on Facebook a couple times a day. I never post anything but I liked seeing what others had posted. Now you cant make any sense out of anything because of all the ads that are not only around the edges but now in the status updates of my friends. Like when a 40 year old man posts "OMG! OMG! OMG! I cant believe this works! I can see who's viewing my pr0file! Click this link to see who's checking out yours. :p"

Just like anything else I suppose. Eventually ads will ruin it and itll become more commercials than content just like it has for everything else.
 
I wonder if they'll rename it Flopera in lieu of the mass exodus to other browsers or maybe Soap Opera because of all the drama the browser will convey between stupid people and their Facebook walls.
 
MacLeod said:
Yeah I hope this doesnt go thru as well. I use the Opera Mobile browser on my Android phone and it is by far and away the best browser you can get for the Android phones. The desktop browser is pretty good but not quite as smooth as Firefox so I generally use it. I cant imagine how bad Facebook would screw it up.

I used to check in on Facebook a couple times a day. I never post anything but I liked seeing what others had posted. Now you cant make any sense out of anything because of all the ads that are not only around the edges but now in the status updates of my friends. Like when a 40 year old man posts "OMG! OMG! OMG! I cant believe this works! I can see who's viewing my pr0file! Click this link to see who's checking out yours. :p"

Just like anything else I suppose. Eventually ads will ruin it and itll become more commercials than content just like it has for everything else.
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Sorry, but opera is far from being far and away the best browser for android. You might like it, I find it just as awful and useless as its desktop counterpart.
 
Imagine the great tracking that Facebook can do of non-Facebook users on the sly if they own Opera!
 
If this happens, it will literally ruin my day.

I love Opera. If Facebook buys it, I'm gonna cry.
 
Let's be honest: If you are Team Opera and Facebook comes knocking with a cubic assload of money, you would sell it to them.

In the end, money talks. If you had the opportunity to become a multi-millionaire, you would jump at the chance.
 
Zuckerberg and Face**** GTFO!

Using Opera since version 3.0. If they sell to those ***** I will switch to FF 3.6.xx. The only other browser which is usable. In the mean time have to check if Opera 6.05 still works properly. It was IMHO best version of all.
 
PLEASE NO. I've religiously used Opera for like..7-8 years now? I do NOT want Facebook smearing their shit all over my baby. I will drop a Facebook infected browser like a ton of rocks and never look back, even if it is the browser I've used for so long.
 
I really like Opera and have been using it for 8 years and counting but if Facebook buys it I'll likely stop using it.
 
Sparkyy said:
Oh I hope this doesn't happen, I have been using Opera for over 5+ years now and like the browser. I can only imagine how much Facebook would screw up the browser with all their one click buttons to Facebook areas.

:mad:
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The best thing in the world would be for Facebook to develop a reputation for killing everything it touches so it goes the way of Myspace. I am 100% sick of the social media obsession.

But no, I'd rather not sacrifice Opera. If you're trying to browse the web on a crappy connection, Opera Mini is about as good as it gets. Outside of that, I like ICS Browser+.
 
I've been using Opera since the 1990s and v3.x. The only thing older on my PC is Winamp.

I can't see a more dramatically different group of users - Opera has always been home to us geeks who like our privacy and quality products without bloat. Facebook is such an opposite monster in comparison.

And I do worry as surely this would just be so Facebook can mine the company for the phone browser and all of its data running through the proxies. I can't see Facebook having much interest in the desktop client.
 
CHAoS_NiNJA said:
PLEASE NO. I've religiously used Opera for like..7-8 years now? I do NOT want Facebook smearing their shit all over my baby. I will drop a Facebook infected browser like a ton of rocks and never look back, even if it is the browser I've used for so long.
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This is really where it'll end up going. Even on the off chance that they leave Opera mostly alone and it continues to be a good browser, the simple fact that "they" now own it will spoil the experience for quite a few people. On the other hand, I don't see them acquiring Opera and then leaving it alone. What would be the point of the purchase if there wasn't a plan to festoon it with "like" buttons and use it like Google uses Chrome, to monitor and profile the crap out of everything you do in the name of ad revenue?
 
Perhaps they'd leverage the code and make another browser tailored for their usages and keep the general purpose browser alone. Not entirely unlike chromium/rockmelt. This is probably asking too much I'm sure.

Much more likely, they just hose Opera itself, as you say with unremovable "like" buttons and such. :(
 
Meh... I haven't used opera since android 1.6, the alternatives were just so much better

But really, even if facebook does buy it, who cares? you just don't upgrade to the facebook version just like people have not upgraded to the zynga version of picture it. And that's even if they do anything to it, they could purchase the company and leave it alone like instagram.
 
i bet the 30 or so people around the world that use opera are going to be pissed when they hear this rumor.
 
rhexis said:
i bet the 30 or so people around the world that use opera are going to be pissed when they hear this rumor.
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Yes, and we are all checking in on this thread. I've been using opera so long, I paid for a license, and had to pay for the next full revision upgrade. I will have nothing to do with facebook.
 
raz-0 said:
Yes, and we are all checking in on this thread. I've been using opera so long, I paid for a license, and had to pay for the next full revision upgrade. I will have nothing to do with facebook.
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Ignore the troll as he knows not what he says. :) As another person who has used Opera since the 1990s and the days of dial-up I also paid for version 3.x. Not many other products can claim that kind of loyal user base. A loyal set of users that are likely to disappear in droves if this happens.

It is not as if Facebook will care as it is not going to buy Opera for us users. It only wants its grubby hands on Opera Mini for the browser tech and ad-network setup on the proxy.
 
I wonder if I can get a refund... I actually bought Opera back in the day lol

love opera, would be sad if fb fucked it up
 
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