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What's your opinion on Opera browser? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MelancholikhPatata@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Opera for a few years now and I've been enjoying its features, UI and everything. However, I (surprisingly to me) haven't noticed many people mentioning it. Also, when I was on Reddit and mentioned that I use it I got downvoted which left me somewhat confused haha.

So I'm wondering if there's anything wrong with it and/or if I should give another browser a go (I noticed Firefox is mentioned a lot on here)

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[–] SmallAlmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opera is just chromium with extra spyware and shit. Firefox is mentioned a lot because it is foss, and my favorite browser for that matter.

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sadly this is the truth these days, opera certainly has had it moments in the sun in the past (especially on lower spec devices) but I would personally stare clear these days

Firefox is really the only true alternative

Small shout-out to edge browser's built in pdf editing functions though, this is really handy on PC at times

[–] BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And Edge's built-in vertical tabs. They're so clean and neat and the groups are colored and feel good to use while with most other browsers, vertical tabs feel like a hack, like you're going against the browser's intended usage. A year ago you'd have a hard time convincing me to use any Microsoft products but after using Edge at work for a while, I switched away from Firefox on my personal machines as well.