This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Maemo.Įverybody uses the Web differently, so why should your browser be exactly like the next person’s? Firefox has more than 6,000 add-ons to help you customize it to your exact needs, plus thousands of Personas to instantly change the way it looks. I didn’t like it one bit back then, but years later I can understand they couldn’t have continued otherwise.Be sure to upgrade to the latest Firefox, featuring improved security, stability, personalization and more.įirefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users. 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. Blink is not such a bad engine overall, and Presto was becoming hugely outdated without the necessary resources to maintain it.

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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