Am I crazy for using Opera? I switched from chrome 3 years ago and have enjoyed everything about Opera even their "gamer" browser OperaGX is just a great experience.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The company's history is not that great, they've done some shady shit before. Vivaldi is where the original opera folks are at now.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, as a long standing fan of Opera - fuck Opera of today and their Chinese overlords.

[–] ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Well shit...

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven't used Opera in a long time, but I used it heavily 20 years ago. Back then you had to pay for it or there was a big ad banner on the toolbar.

It certainly wasn't always Chromium based, Chrome didn't come along until 2009 or something. Not sure when that change happened.

If I had to go back to that job I was doing (Internet Help desk) again, I'd consider Opera again. It was fast at navigating an intranet site where all the images were cached locally, but the killer feature for me was the back/forward. If you went back, all the stuff you typed in the form was still there. So you could resubmit it if the session had timed out or there was an issue.

I still use mouse gestures (an Opera thing) via extensions with whatever browser I have used since.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It went downhill when Opera was sold to China and original devs created Vivaldi instead.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yea Opera used to be dope but that was a looong time ago

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Opera is worse than Chrome for privacy.

[–] o_oli@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You should try Vivaldi. It was made by the founder of Opera and is actually really very good.