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   Mike Easter to philo   
   Re: Opera browser   
   30 Jun 24 21:26:18   
   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   philo wrote:   
   > Just curious if anyone has gotten Opera working in 24.04   
      
   I haven't done that, but here's some info about Opera 111 for Ub.   
      
     - Ub is partial to snap stuff; it is available in snap store   
     - I haven't tested installing the current opera .deb from opera site in   
   Ub 24.04   
     - Alternatively you could add the opera repo to Ub and install it that   
   way w/ your synaptic   
      
   Some blog sites (itsfoss) dislike opera for:   
   > Personally, I do not use Opera. It is not open source. Its so-called   
   > free-VPN is not that good (it’s hardly even a VPN). After its   
   > acquisition by a Chinese group, transparency took another hit. It   
   > collects a vast amount of data, the same as Alibaba’s UC Browser.   
      
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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