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  "Opera ceased selling a web browser to consumer years ago."

  "The move to the Chromium Content API and WebKit and later Blink beneath it was not driven out of lack of resources to develop Presto; it was driven out of an unwillingness to do so."

  "This was all not helped by Presto falling further and further behind the competition; a number of engineers were let go during the black quarters in '09/'10, the "Core" department (i.e., that which worked on Presto) let go about as many as any other at the time ...The real hurt was that when the company started posting profits again, Core never began hiring again (only a very few hires were made before everyone was let go or moved to other departments with the end of Presto), and certainly not enough to keep up with the rate that MS, Mozilla, Google, and Apple were hiring people to work on their respective browser engines; there simply weren't the resources to keep up, yet alone catch up the slight gap we had in 2010. As a result, Presto ended up fairing worse and worse to what more and more of our customers wanted. By 2011 it was inevitable Presto was dead (I know others who'd put that date back as far as 2009!); the gap had become too large to really be viable to catch up, even if the resources were forthcoming. That we were heading towards its inevitable death had been obvious for years; nothing was done about it."

  "The state of testing was... diabolical, at best. This was really driven by a view of testing as nothing but a cost (and there are plenty of terrible releases of Opera!) and something that can be avoided by proper development process so bugs aren't introduced in the first place (which of course is nonsense). Regressions were aplenty, typically caught months after the code was changed (many were only found once the Presto release found its way into a public Desktop build), by which time nobody knew quite what was going on. Bugs would often languish for years, eventually get fixed, just to be reintroduced a year down the line. "

  "Ultimately, Presto died not because of a lack of money, but because the leadership was weak (it was obvious Presto was going to die if investment didn't increase in 2009, and yet nothing was done; had the investment been made in Presto we might not be talking here today, had the decision to move to WebKit been made in 2010 the two could've been developed in parallel for a while until the new product was in a far better state than the panicked, rushed Opera 14/15 was when it shipped). "

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