Opera used to be a fantastic web browser, with a custom high-performance Presto rendering engine and features like tabbed windows that didn't show up in competing browsers until years later. However, the modern Opera browser is a shadow of its former self, reliant on chasing trends and meme advertising to
  • otacon239@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    I remember back in high school, this was the browser to have on your flash drive. So many built-in tools that were normally entire separate programs. It had an email client, BitTorrent, download manager, FTP client… all sorts of tools so you didn’t have to keep them all updated and portable separately.

    It was a sad day when all of that started getting stripped out just to end up like every other Chromium copy on the market.

    Been on Firefox ever since they took away my grid home screen.

    Goodbye, my once good friend.🫡

  • BB69@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    As soon as Opera was acquired by the Chinese company, I told everybody to dump it ASAP.

    Reddit said I was ignorant and racist because I had “no proof” that the new company was doing something wrong

    • corbin@infosec.pubOP
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      6 months ago

      I mean, yeah, just leaving it at “china bad” is still xenophobia. Tech companies in the US and other countries can be just as shady.

      • BB69@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        lol it was obvious when a random Chinese company purchased what was going to happen.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I used Opera until they bailed on Presto in 2013. I then switched back to Firefox and I’ve been using it since.

    Just use Firefox or one of its derivatives if you care about the open web. It has real ad blocking (uBlock Origin extension), is fast, and basically all the features you’d expect from a browser. Give it a whirl, you’ll probably like it.

    • Tak@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      If you’re like me and can remember using netscape before that you should schedule a colonoscopy.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I started on Lynx and remember NCSA Mosaic being the big new thing. My colon has seen better days.

        • Tak@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          Take care of yourself out there, friend. Gotta keep the memories of the forgotten times alive.

    • Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      It’s made by a lot of the original Opera team, including the founder. They have some nifty features that either require an addon in Firefox or are unavailable. Tab tiling is the one that I miss almost daily when I’m using Firefox.

      They are an innovative group that often pioneers features that eventually trickle down to other browsers. Although it’s based on chromium, it’s an excellent browser that offers better privacy than Chrome. They have done a great job building a browser that caters to power users but can also be configured to use a simplified UI similar to Chrome.

      If they had container tabs like Firefox it would be my favorite browser hands down. They have profiles like Chrome that work much better than Firefox profiles, but each profile is a separate window whereas container tabs can be mixed in a single window.

      • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        6 months ago

        And Vivaldi for Android is also great. It has an actual tab bar with tabs you can move around, stack on each other etc. (among other things). Totally recommend.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It still seems to be the only browser on my phone that will reflow the text after I zoom a page. To whoever is about to tell me what I should have already known about that also does that, thank you!

    • StorageB@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Opera has had this functionality for 10+ years on their mobile browser, and I would argue that it has always been their best feature by far as it has always worked beautifully. I just don’t understand how no other browser has implemented this feature.

    • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      👌👌👌 Always liked text reflow after zoom very much! !!!

      Like it was responsive before responsive was a thing. Behaviour only native to epub afaik.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    The decline of Opera has prompted von Tetzchner, after a monumental anger, to create Vivaldi, to continue with the original philosophy of ancient Opera. For lovers of the old Opera, the other alternative is the Otter Browser, which also tries to recreate it.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Why are you including Safari in this? It’s such a bad browser, doesn’t even allow you to hard reload or get debug info on iOS.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    I used it for a while but then one update it completely reset not only all my (many) open tabs, but also my history, so I couldn’t restore them. Not used it since…