Chrome randomly copying Opera for the heck of it?
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A week or so ago, not sure when, but Opera updated. Nothing was really different, except the autosuggest / autofill items were now bold. I didn't think much of it, until Chrome updated, suddenly theirs were bold too. What the...? I've tried to find out if there's any discussion from either company regarding this, but I sure can't find it, though I'm not the only person who has noticed.
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Opera is now using the chromium core.
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@thegillion said in Chrome randomly copying Opera for the heck of it?:
Opera
is nowalways has been using the chromium core.FTFY
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I thought that Opera predated Chrome?
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It was until Opera 15 that they change to be based on the Chromium layout engine, Opera used to use it own layout engine before.
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Presto was the layout engine of the Opera web browser for a decade. It was released on 28 January 2003 in Opera 7, and later used to power the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers. As of Opera 15, the desktop browser uses a Chromium backend, replacing Presto with the Blink layout engine. Presto is a dynamic engine.
Presto (layout engine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
@Romo said in Chrome randomly copying Opera for the heck of it?:
It was until Opera 15 that they change to be based on the Chromium layout engine, Opera used to use it own layout engine before.
That's what I thought. I was using Opera a LONG time before Chrome was around.
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I was on it long before even Presto.
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I don't think it really matters that they use Chromium core, it doesn't explain such an odd GUI change that went in the opposite direction, and I wasn't the only person who noticed either. If two sites use WordPress and one makes a change to the style of an element, then another does a week later, the fact they both use WordPress really doesn't matter.
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@tonyshowoff said in Chrome randomly copying Opera for the heck of it?:
I don't think it really matters that they use Chromium core, it doesn't explain such an odd GUI change that went in the opposite direction, and I wasn't the only person who noticed either. If two sites use WordPress and one makes a change to the style of an element, then another does a week later, the fact they both use WordPress really doesn't matter.
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