hmm, on Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Edd Barrett said that > I have bugged Opera about this before, maybe of interest. And no, NDA's > are not ideal, but could have perhaps atleast lead to a build.
yes, emulation works reliable only on i386, that's sad. but otherwise the native builds are overrated.. until there's a way to run it in either freebsd or linux emulation the opera binaries work very well for me -- better than other browsers in native builds (they are bigger and slower...) so let's suppose opera provided native builds for i386 (and maybe amd64) -- now the other archs would cry wolf how they are being left out in the cold. there is just no way to please everyone. look at how many platforms opera supports out of the box, must be a support nightmare as it is. i am not defending opera, but they are neither the first, nor the last non-open source company to drop builds for niche systems (eset's nod comes to my mind). > It just will not happen. I would reccommend putting efforts into some of > the new webkit based browsers instead. while midori looks promising, it is not a match for the emulated opera when it comes to speed (and in midori's case, even stability). nothing is perfect. but from where i sit, if life gives you a lemon, make a limonade. -f -- if rabbits feet are so lucky, what happened to the rabbit?
