> 2. It’s just a shit browser
Fallen from grace...
I used Opera like 20(?) years ago. At the time it seemed better and had tabs.
Do I remember it wrong? Was it way better at some point?
Fallen from grace...
I used Opera like 20(?) years ago. At the time it seemed better and had tabs.
Do I remember it wrong? Was it way better at some point?
I still miss and lament the loss. We lose something beautiful!
Now I follow ladybird browser, I have very high hopes for a true fresh take on a browser.
Never cared about it being chinese. It sending anything suspicious^ will be discovered instantly and kill the product. It’s delulu for an average joe to consider this as a personal attack vector. Journalists and politicians - maybe. But not the tinfoil club.
^ above the usual info that all browsing regimes collect either way and lose in breaches
But their problem was in quality. Partially it was MS with IE dominance to blame, but anyway, html rendering by Opera was inconsistent. So as a paid browser they failed as soon as 33600 modems turned history and Firefox introduced most of Opera features for free with much more consistent page rendering.
Opera mini was also great for pre-touchscreen Nokia sybian phones in the mid 2000's as it made browsing the internet somewhat bearable.
Around 2013 this all disappeared - they switched to Chromium's engine, and dropping all of their special features. Opera 15 was super-generic chromium fork. This was when I've stopped using it.