Bug 242495

Summary:	The native version (or perhaps every version) of Opera needs to be removed from the FreeBSD handbook
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	ultimateninjamaster948
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	carlavilla, linimon
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description ultimateninjamaster948 2019-12-07 02:13:40 UTC

As many of you know, Opera switched from their own browser engine to Blink a while back. When they did this, support for FreeBSD ceased. The latest version of Opera that is available for FreeBSD natively is 12.16 ... which is extremely outdated. It is not wise to instruct people to use a web browser from 2013. I recommend that the native version of the Opera web browser stop being recommended in the FreeBSD handbook, and only the Linux version of Opera should be recommended going forward.

Comment 1 ultimateninjamaster948 2019-12-07 02:16:04 UTC

It appears that the linux-opera port is also very, very outdated. It might be best just to stop recommending any version of Opera in the official handbook, unfortunately.

Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2019-12-07 16:24:44 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: carlavilla
Date: Sat Dec  7 16:24:23 UTC 2019
New revision: 53664
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53664

Log:
  Remove the Opera Browser as a recommended web browser.

  PR:		242495
  Submitted by:	ultimateninjamaster948@gmail.com
  Patch by:	carlavilla@
  Approved by:	bcr@
  Differential Revision:	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242495

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-emulation/article.xml
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.xml
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/applications.xml

Comment 3 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer

2019-12-07 16:45:07 UTC

Fixed.