[HN Gopher] Stop Using Opera Browser and Opera GX
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Stop Using Opera Browser and Opera GX
Author : cdme
Score : 19 points
Date : 2024-01-24 22:31 UTC (31 minutes ago)
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| parl_match wrote:
| Use Firefox or Safari. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
|
| Don't use Chrome or Chrome-based (Blink) browsers.
|
| I have a lot of thoughts on how Firefox fumbled the bag, by the
| way. They desperately need new leadership.
| denoyse wrote:
| I feel using Chrome is just as, if not more problematic.
| ktpsns wrote:
| I used opera between 1999 ~ 2008. It was great and tons of
| features ahead anything else. It was also super fast - it was my
| favourite browser for older and underpowered systems. It is such
| a shame they did not open source the browser. I bet many features
| would be much more present in nowadays browser life. Just to name
| one, visual tab previews (currently only widespread in MS Edge)
| or the semantic relationship toolbar (reading <meta rel> tags)
| would still be amazing today.
| voytec wrote:
| Can't agree more, but my opinion is sentiment-biased. I was a
| paying customer back when Opera had ads-infested free version
| (and these were some huge banners on low-resolution screens) and
| an ads-free paid version. Browser tabs were a truly magnificent
| invention and made Opera stand out.
|
| Shame that the company wasn't able to keep up. They had some
| really fresh ideas on improving web browsing and it didn't seem
| like throwing money at walls to check where it sticks. At the
| time.
| overstay8930 wrote:
| Honestly have never found a reason to switch from Safari, I trust
| Apple to make reasonable decisions about my data so I've never
| had to worry about it outside of normal cybersecurity hygiene
| (randomized passwords, enabling advanced data protection, etc).
|
| I have no idea what people are smoking if they think any company
| that gives you a free product and makes money on your data would
| have your privacy as their best interest. I'm not saying they're
| straight up committing fraud, I'm talking about stuff like Opera
| collecting this to use for a future business endeavor. It's why
| I'll never buy an Android phone, Apple is expensive but at the
| end of the day Apple is already profitable without data
| collection, but most other companies can't say that, so they can
| never truly have your best interests in mind when it's a matter
| of survival.
| lovelyviking wrote:
| >Firefox, Safari, and Vivaldi are all better alternatives, and
| Vivaldi is built by some former Opera employees, including former
| Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner.
| gunapologist99 wrote:
| Obviously everyone has their favorite and browser discussions
| inevitably turn into flamewars, but TFA is true: at least _don
| 't_ choose Opera. That's really sad considering its history.
|
| My favorite is currently Brave, once I turn off the
| cryptocurrency stuff. I used to prefer Firefox, but it isn't
| stable for me under significant load; perhaps leaky JS in one of
| my hundred(s) of open tabs makes things slow to a crawl. I wish
| that vanilla de-googled chromium like ungoogled or similar would
| adopt the same upgraded sync functionality that's built into
| Brave, but for now Brave works fine and I can use all my regular
| open-source Chrome plugins.
| haunter wrote:
| Wish Apple never killed the Windows version of Safari in 2012.
| The last 10 years might have played out differently
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