What exactly makes "chess" baked in?

It sounds like they struck a deal with chess.com to put a bookmark that opens a regular web page. It's no more "baked in" than accessing the same website via Chrome or Safari.

By the way, check out lichess.org. Free, open source, no ads, interesting architecture, servers that don't crash, feature parity with chess.com.

It's a shame how far Opera has fallen. From industry leaders with a lightweight web browser with arguably the fastest rendering engine, and one of the earliest implementation of tabs, novel web experiences with Opera Unite, most compatible and fastest mobile web browser in the pre-smartphone era, to... a Chinese owned Chrome copycat with gimmicky features and practical irrelevance.

I'm surprised it's still alive, but I guess the advertising business model and these marketing deals are lucrative enough to keep it running.

Between this and Opera GX's twitter, I guess they are going 200% in on memes. Maybe it's a valid strategy to give up on seriousness if you can't tackle mainstream competition head on...

I am not saying this to throw shade, it might legitimately be a good idea. Of course, attack surface, spyware, blah blah, but users don't care about that, sadly. Someone might install it just because it's le funny browser.

I'm expecting Opera's logo to change to doge any day now.

Given the fact that Opera is Malware that sends all your data directly to China, I really don't care about there goodies built in to trap people.

Nice to see that the browser toolbars of early 2000s are making a comeback. Just as useless, and they steal even more of your data.

/s

I guess you have to gimmicks when you have literally nothing to offer for the problem space

Am I reading it right that there's a custom build of the browser that only adds a shortcut to the sidebar?

Good to see companies like this concentrating on the important things.

Old Opera was something else entirely - the fastest browser available, with features which still don't entirely exist in modern browsers even with extensions, like mouse gestures. Then it switched engines and got sold to some Chinese company.

The modern reincarnation isn't called Opera, it's Vivaldi. I didn't use it because it was too slow (implementing the old Opera features on Chrome must have been difficult).

Ah yes, in the browser wars where everything is getting absorbed by Chromium, the end users really want reads notes fucking chess.

Awesome! They can finally track and sell my ingenious chess strategies to the highest bidder.

Hmm. Let's add some fringe functionality to extend our browser's attack surface. Will surely make 0.01% of our customers happy, while demonstrating our devs are committed and have their eye on the ball.

Meh, give me a Firefox extension connecting to lichess anyday.

Really? As if that is something I want a browser for.

Makes it easier to have an engine open behind :(

This is just a desperate move to gain some users because nobody is using Opera. I stick to Brave/Firefox

I wish they focus more on gaining parity with other browsers in caniuse.com

Someone thought this was a good idea...

Funny they've struck a deal to put ads in the browser and they tell you as if they were doing you a favour.