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
    0•1 year 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.🫡

  • merde alors
    0•1 year ago

    why are they promoting Vivaldi alongside Firefox?

    Why is Vivaldi a good browser?

    • @Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
      0•1 year 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
        0•1 year 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.

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
    0•1 year 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.

  • DessertStorms
    0•1 year 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…

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
    0•1 year ago

    I don’t trust anything but Firefox or Safari anymore. Every other browser vendor has an ulterior motive to steal your data or serve you ads.

    • JackGreenEarthEnglish
      0•1 year 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.

      • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
        0•1 year ago

        Sure it does, you just open the dev console on your computer.

        The criteria for the original comment was not “which is the best browser” but rather “which browsers aren’t adware”. As Apple doesn’t monetise user data the way Google and Microsoft do, it belongs on the short list with Firefox. Is Firefox better? Yes.

  • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    0•1 year 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.

  • @BB69@lemmy.world
    0•1 year 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
      0•1 year 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.

  • @octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0•1 year 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!

    • Joël de Bruijn
      0•1 year ago

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

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

    • Jiří Král
      0•1 year ago

      AFAIK Opera has some kind of patent for this, so other browsers cannit implement it so easily.

    • @StorageB@lemmy.oneEnglish
      0•1 year 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.