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Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Opera has been in the web browser playing field for a long time at this point, but haven't been super relevant until the last couple years due to GX

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It was somewhat hyped to a degree in the mid 2000s. It had a lot of features other browsers hadn't and many things just worked better, especially using tabs worked much better with them. They also had a linux version when that was not a common thing. Was kinda sad to see them fall.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I remember the IT department at work back then (circa 2006) recommending Opera to me. It had features that are more or less mainstream now, like tab reloading on a timer, and all that while running smoothly than any other browser I've used at that time.

    Since then, I've tried a lot of browsers like Vivaldi and Maxthon, but for some reason or the other, like being bloated, or being taken over by entities I don't trust, had found a reason to move to a different browser. Currently using LibreWolf, and I hope I won't have any reason to switch browsers anytime soon.

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