On 28 May 2013, a beta release of Opera 15 was made available,[49] the first version based on the Chromium project.[50][51] Many distinctive Opera features of the previous versions were dropped, and Opera Mail was separated into a standalone application derived from Opera 12.[52]
Opera sold its soul some years ago. It is also chromium based.
I keep hearing this but can’t find any basis for this
Yeah, since 2013. It's in the wikipedia entry
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
I looked it up and corrected my post. Had to change Vivaldi also as it is opera fork.
I honestly thought you were talking about the “opera is owned by china” fud