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Opera GX – Gaming Browser

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42 pointsJaruzel44 comments

I like how it's in "early access"…

Warning: scrolling through this page will pollute your browser's navigation stack.

Wow you weren’t kidding, it completely exhausted mobile safari’s history stack on the very first scroll with dozens of entries to the same headers. Super broken web experience, and it’s advertising a browser!

My mobile browser actually froze up and crashed :(

Maybe it's intentional, to make you feel like your current browser is slow.

tl;dr: There's the software equivalent of RGB lighting and some trivial/redundant integration with Twitch and the like, but the most useful feature for gamers is the ability to throttle the browser's CPU, network, and RAM usage while you're gaming.

Sadly, we're at a point where that would probably be a useful feature for other browsers as well.

I honestly find it quite humorous when companies add "gaming" to a product name:

>Gaming Browser >Gaming OS >Gaming Optimizer >Gaming Antivirus

It's usually just a cheap gimmick.

And just like Gaming PC, Gaming Laptop, and Gaming Keyboard and Mouse, they double the cost.

I don't know that gaming laptops necessary cost more than comparable high-end laptops. I had found it a way to get high-performance hardware somewhat cheaper if anything. The gaming segment is probably more price-conscious than the whales who splurge on the typical high RAM/SSD/i7 versions of laptops.

Calling it a "gaming laptop" does make it a bit harder to get the purchase approved at work though.

I was also recently in the market for a new laptop and by far a "gaming" one ended up being the best price/quality ratio. My 900$ gaming laptop is hugely more powerful than my 3000$ mbp which can barely run a VM.

Looking at reviews of those, I get the impression that although you get the performance, you lose the size / battery life / cooling. Yes, the gaming laptop is more powerful, but you probably want a laptop to sometimes work in public. With the gaming variant you end up with extra space for heat exhaust, lose the efficiency, and your hardware sounds like jet engine once you go over 50% CPU.

I just wish "gaming" laptops didn't look like left over props from Blade Runner, though. The only "normal" looking ones I've manage to find are the Razer Blade series, and they're much more expensive for it.

Why does nobody make a powerful laptop with a discrete GPU, without rainbow LEDs, bizarre chunky chassis, and shiny red/blue/green plastic stripes or pictures of skeletons all over it?

Same goes for gaming mice.

They're high quality, but generally with a silly appearance, so you can't use one in an office environment.

Most high quality gaming mice actually look very innocuous. Check out Zowie mice or the G Pro Wireless.

The p series thinkpad might fit the bill. The discrete GPUs are generally lower end quadros, but it'll be a big step up from UHD620.

Ditto for gaming desktops. All I want is a really nice, subtle tower that doesn’t look like it belongs in a 13 year old’s bedroom. The Xbox Series X design looks exactly like what I’m after, just in PC form.

If you can build your own PC, there is the NZXT H1 case that looks almost exactly like the xbox series x.

There are also businesses that will build customised PCs for you where you can choose the case you want.

For my office I bought two "gaming" monitors because they were cheaper than the equivalent "professional" monitor. The panels were exactly the same. However my accountant raised it when I put it on expenses it just because it had the word "gaming" in the title.

Isn't a panel just a (not-so-big) part of quality? I think for professional monitors (Eizo and NEC comes to my mind) there is a lots of electronics that provides consistency and wide-range adjustments.

For a developer, not sure an actual pro grade monitor is a worthwhile investment. The actual non-gaming competition here is something more like the Dell Ultrasharp line.

'Pro-grade' like something desired for people working with image/video? Not really IMO.

On the other hand both Eizo and NEC have usually good entry-level models as well. They won't have all the bells-and-whistles though that you may find elsewhere like FreeSync/G-Sync, 4K etc. resolutions or 144k refresh rates... :/

Still prefer it over 'ai' prefix

Honestly, I'd be tempted to use this as my daily driver web browser, for the throttling capabilities alone.

Yes, I think the same

I'm going to wait until those features get added to firefox.

Linus Sebastian from Linus Tech Tips reviewed it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWmQbbIFjc

Very informative. Thanks!

- It's not as useful.

- CPU/Memory/Bandwidth limiter kind of works. But who needs that?

- You can move video overlays anywhere and they stay always on top.

- Opera, the company, was sold to a chinese company, doing shady stuff.

- You can't trust the free VPN, which reduces network performance considerably.

After Opera was bought out by some Chinese company I wont ever install it on my machine unless they fully open source and I can install from said source.

why? i don't know where you live but i bet a whole lot of things you use and trust daily are made by "some chinese company"

Sure, I use Xiaomi stuff, but it's stuff I can isolate on its own vlan, block traffic from, etc.

I don't intentionally let it run rampant and hand it 100% of the data.

Beyond Xiaomi many of the products you use were manufactured or assembled in China.

I think there's a considerable difference between having a shoddy coffee machine and having an untrusted third party have access to virtually everything you do online. I don't really see the benefit in arguing otherwise, regardless of where the company is based.

Is your router or modem made in China? It most likely is. What about most of your ISPs equipment. Most likely. Some form of everything you own is from China.

Well, can't speak for OP, but for me it's less that it's just "some chinese company", but more "some chinese company with a actual bad track record of predatory loans in africa, backdoors in their Chinese browser, and falsly issuing certificates in their CA, then buying StartCom in an attempt to sneak back into that market:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360#Controversies

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/21/opera-predatory-loa...

I really wish the site didn’t hijack my back button:(

It's for gamers, so of course it looks ridiculous.

Opera always experimented with browsers and different formats, forgot the name, but they had really cool product few years ago.

I think it is good that they are experimenting.

I don't get it but maybe I am not their target market.

Opera was pretty innovative. I'm still smarting that their browser-with-server concept (Opera Unite) didn't become the web.

Does it support Flash ?

Don't forget Silverlight!!

Every Gaming product/service requirement list be like:

* RGB

* Black Background ...

* Apple tax applied to pc hardware

no linux :(

With linux you can put your normal browser in a cgroup and limit cpu and ram usage that way.

For some reason, every time a company is bought out by China, their Linux goes out the Window. I have no Idea why China wants to suppress Linux so much.

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