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Is Facebook Going To Buy Opera?

New submitter x0d writes with this excerpt from the L.A. Times: "The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software. Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street investors, Facebook is trying to solve its mobile monetizing problems and has been gobbling up various companies in recent months to increase its presence in the world of smartphones."

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  1. Re:Nice one by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Informative

    You got it back asswards friend, Opera MINI does the whole "go through Opera servers" thing whereas opera MOBILE only does so if you activate turbo.

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  2. Re:Nice one by Lennie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually you can't turn it off, because Opera Mini isn't a real browser, that is the whole point of Opera Mini. It is just a client which displays what the Opera server prerendered.

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  3. Re:I hope not by cparker15 · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Preferences, on the General tab, check the box to prevent tabs from loading until they're activated. Almost makes Firefox feel like a lightweight browser.

    Also, this add-on helps mitigate Firefox's chronic memory leak problem: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/memory-restart/

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  4. Re:Rockmelt by moronoxyd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera browsers already have a filtering mechanism build in. What they are missing is a list of stuff to filter.

    Just search the web for an urlfilter.ini, download that, put it on your Android device and point Opera Mobile to it.

  5. Re:Nice one by moronoxyd · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no 'Opera Mobile Mini'.
    Opera Mobile and Opera Mini are two distinctive products.

  6. Re:Nice one by del_diablo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which is also why its allowed into Apples App Store, because it does under no circumstances execute any script by itself, its just streaming it.