Wikipedia says Opera 15 with the Blink engine came out on 28 May 2013 [0]. So, it's still chugging along after 5 years of the switch. Which in the web world is an eternity I suppose.
The tab navigation, the mouse gestures, the keyboard based navigation on the page, the keyboard shortcuts, tab stacks, customized searches with keywords, just too many features to count. And all without a single add-on.
Vivaldi does a lot of these things right as well.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#History
oh, its ok, we have sandboxes
Plus, we just incentivised the bad guys to try harder. Up to now, the risk has been "steal my CPU to do DDoS or mine" but now the risk is steal my money
https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/18/opera-browser-sold-to-a-...
Another browser that has a wallet built in is Brave [1]. But afaik this does not support access to wallets on other devices.
After this, Opera is struggling a lot to set themselves apart of the pack, and in my opinion, they are failing at it. They lost the focus, and past recent "innovations" were simply smashing things with the browser.
- VPN integration built in. - Ad Blocker built in - Torrent client built in - Crypto currency wallet built in
All these features, but they still have to make money too. Running ads (as suggested sites or whatever) doesn't bode well in a land where we have more popular open source browsers not running ads, and having all these features as add-ons, web apps, or one way or the other.
Regarding the crypto wallet that is built in, who honestly believes in the crypto future these days? The fad is over and nobody is interested in the fake bitcoins. Bitcoin dominance is on the rise and the other 'coins' only persist due to people 'HODLing', i.e. holding on to the 'coins' they have out of the hope that one day some greater fool will come along and be interested in what they have 'invested in'.
Alt coins and their apparent value reminds me of those holiday homes people built but did not complete in Spain, Ireland and elsewhere prior to the 2008 crash. If you go to Spain you can still see these properties and notionally these useless buildings have got 'value'. Eventually someone will come along and find use for the properties, even if it is to use them for keeping cattle in. The owners are not selling as they have negative equity. That residual value does fluctuate with movements in the currency markets much as the values in fake bitcoins does move up and down. But there is no income, the capital is not employed to generate a profit and the assets are worthless yet worth something at the same time.
On this analogy it is like Opera think the good old days of 2008 will come back. Or in alt-coins, the good old days of December 2017.
The 'good old days' of crypto are not coming back. There are no greater fools foolish enough to want to buy in. The 'dApps' never arrived, much like the tourists that never arrived in the pre-2008 speculator Potemkin villages of Spain, Ireland etc. Mainstream people just do not want to have anything to do with it, crypto is just not cool. Opera must be very desperate to want to tie their fortunes to 'crypto wallets'.
