Why Opera Needs WebKit, or Opium for the People

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Opera switches its rendering engine from Presto to Blink/V8 (Chromium) to stop constant CSS quirks workarounds and regain default site compatibility, reducing weekly patching. The team also ships a native Android browser, splits mail into a standalone client, and performs a native rewrite of the desktop UI to take advantage of Blink’s instant compatibility and faster feature adoption.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:02Web history context
3. 17:33Presto engine problems
4. 26:27Switching to WebKit
5. 30:20What WebKit is
6. 35:43Opera uses Blink
7. 37:58Future and open source
8. 39:22Q&A

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