• Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
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      It’s made by a lot of the original Opera team, including the founder. They have some nifty features that either require an addon in Firefox or are unavailable. Tab tiling is the one that I miss almost daily when I’m using Firefox.

      They are an innovative group that often pioneers features that eventually trickle down to other browsers. Although it’s based on chromium, it’s an excellent browser that offers better privacy than Chrome. They have done a great job building a browser that caters to power users but can also be configured to use a simplified UI similar to Chrome.

      If they had container tabs like Firefox it would be my favorite browser hands down. They have profiles like Chrome that work much better than Firefox profiles, but each profile is a separate window whereas container tabs can be mixed in a single window.

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        And Vivaldi for Android is also great. It has an actual tab bar with tabs you can move around, stack on each other etc. (among other things). Totally recommend.

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      If you’re like me and can remember using netscape before that you should schedule a colonoscopy.

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        I started on Lynx and remember NCSA Mosaic being the big new thing. My colon has seen better days.

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          Take care of yourself out there, friend. Gotta keep the memories of the forgotten times alive.

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    I used Opera until they bailed on Presto in 2013. I then switched back to Firefox and I’ve been using it since.

    Just use Firefox or one of its derivatives if you care about the open web. It has real ad blocking (uBlock Origin extension), is fast, and basically all the features you’d expect from a browser. Give it a whirl, you’ll probably like it.

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    As soon as Opera was acquired by the Chinese company, I told everybody to dump it ASAP.

    Reddit said I was ignorant and racist because I had “no proof” that the new company was doing something wrong

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      I mean, yeah, just leaving it at “china bad” is still xenophobia. Tech companies in the US and other countries can be just as shady.

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        lol it was obvious when a random Chinese company purchased what was going to happen.

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    The decline of Opera has prompted von Tetzchner, after a monumental anger, to create Vivaldi, to continue with the original philosophy of ancient Opera. For lovers of the old Opera, the other alternative is the Otter Browser, which also tries to recreate it.