Usually software companies have the luxury of picking their own deadlines, and typically — especially in the case of open source or free programs — those deadlines are allowed to slip or even lapse. But the European Commission gave Opera a solid opportunity to get back in the game, to be discussed once again in the same company as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari. Version 10.2 wasn’t going to do it. We saw that back in December, with performance scores that were falling below those from the stable Opera 10.1.
