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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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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Opera was always hampered by not being IE or Chrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

the migration to Blink was in 2013, it helped at first it seems

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

    Opera added a user agent header "selector" pretty early so it would tell the webpage it was chrome/IE/Firefox. It was important for compatibility for a lot of websites. I'd trust that listing less for them much less than I would for the bigger/default browsers.

    The migration from their own codebase to chromium in 2012/2013 was...rough. They were the first browser to have cross-device synch and you couldn't import bookmarks for a long time, much less RSS feeds/everything else people used Opera for. Their original userbase took a sizeable hit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yes, but as a user, there was always a broken webpage somewhere or some API it didn't support.

    When they switched to blink, I immediately got Firefox and I couldn't be happier. It's a browser that cares about my privacy, my choice to use an ad blocker, etc.

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  • [–] [B] 2 points 2 years ago

    Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

    The usage share of web browsers is the portion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular web browser.

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