Opera browser

“I started using it specifically because IE6 would crash and lose everything I had open.”

“Brave, Opera, Edge, etc are all Chromium and will all deprecate Manifest V2 eventually”

“Cloudflare verification never works. It just says "failed, please try again" forever.”

“Opera had Multiple Document Interface (MDI) which was actually (back then) far more flexible than tabs”

“Opera collects the prompts and specific active page context you submit when you use the AI button”

“You click History - literally a first class menu item they are bragging about a feature that doesn't even work.”

“Opera might technically be worse, but I don't see tech people pushing that one so much.”

“It supports text reflow on zoom, and also I can choose the download folder for each file.”

“On Android, opera browser has text-wrap which fits text into screen on any zooom level.”

“the Brave as block engine and Operas power saving modes are non-trivial”

“it was also the only browser that ran well in the era of 3g mobile phones”

“I loved gestures, built in IRC client, RSS reader, notes and the experimental website hosting from the browser.”

“Switching tabs doesn't work like you would expect in Opera for example. The order of tabs gets shuffled randomly.”

“it's literally the only mobile browser which UX isn't completely botched”

“Opera 12 was so good, so fast, on ANY hardware, so innovative, so quirky.”

“sending every visited domain to the browser vendor under the guise of "safe browsing"”

“Opera was by far the best browser for a while for sure. Sad they couldn't keep up”

“Opera had this feature where it knew what the next page for stuff was, and other things.”

“fulltext history search feature I've also never seen in a browser since”

“I used Opera so much around 2000. Small things like the X-Z shortcuts and the sheer speed blew me away.”

“it performed incredibly well compared to IE and Netscape on my hardware”

“A better way to celebrate 30 years of their browser would be to just open source it.”

“nobody ever made a better browser in my opinion then they did with those last versions of Opera”

“I never got the same feeling of easy of use and control over a browser.”

“Everything else after opera dropped Presto and became a chrome clone felt like a downgrade to me.”

“Feels as soulless as the Opera that's been bought by a Chinese company to sell predatory lending”

“Remember you just took Google software, changed skin, added more telemetry and spying eyes”

“Note that Opera (and now Vivaldi) never got close despite being appreciated by many.”

“opera includes several built-in native features that chrome does not offer by default”

“it allows word wrap automatically. My mobile experience is almost never broken”

“Eventually it just felt too bloated, and sadly now they are essentially another Chromium fork.”

“having best in class stability and performance, and building out features that their core user base loves and swears by”

“It was far superior for several years, until all of its innovations were copied by other vendors.”

“Opera was also essential at this point, not in terms of market share, but of innovation in the browser space”

“sold the company to overseas investors, shared user data with ad brokers and develop based on Chromium”

“simply didn't work and led to the insolvency of the browser and having to sell it off to someone harvesting its users as data”

“It feels like when Opera dropped its own web engine, Presto, to become just another Chrome clone.”

“For opera it was the custom, fast rendering engine and the email client.”

“the peak of Opera before it went to Chromium, I considered it to push truly mind-blowing user beneficial innovation”

“I liked the original Opera—it's been a while, but I think I actually paid for it on Windows”