Opera used to be a fantastic web browser, with a custom high-performance Presto rendering engine and features like tabbed windows that didn't show up in competing browsers until years later. However, the modern Opera browser is a shadow of its former self, reliant on chasing trends and meme advertising to
  • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    PSA: The old Opera guys have a new browser, Vivaldi.

    It’s quite nice and I use it daily.

    • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yep. I daily drive Vivaldi on both macOS and Android.

      I love it. The sidebar is a great feature; I stash my extension icons there. The theme is highly customizable; I have mine set to something similar to the Opera dark theme.

      I don’t use the email or calendar features. The great thing about Vivaldi is that they provide a ton of power user features, but don’t shove it in your face. It’s super easy to turn off the things you don’t want and to turn on the things you do want.

      I do use UBO, but they also have a builtin ad blocker if you want to use that instead.

      The settings page is very extensive. Tons of customization. True to the Opera legacy!

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The sidebar is a great feature; I stash my extension icons there.

        That’s amazing, I didn’t know you could do that. I’ve been using Vivaldi since the alpha days and I had no clue you could drag the extensions there.

      • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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        10 months ago

        That’s what I thought until I installed Firefox with Sidebery and oh man, that’s another level. It required quite a bit of configuration make it really fit my needs, but when you configure it, it’s incredible.

    • milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.devEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I keep revisiting Vivaldi once every few months, and get reminded of why I uninstall it within minutes. They remove the option of changing DNS servers from the configuration UI and moved it into flags. I have absolutely no idea why they do that, and its a philosophy I vehemently disagree with.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s a rebranded chromium with some extra bloat. Just like his older brother Chinese Chromium, Opera, and their edgy cousin, Microsoft Chromium. All following the example of Papa Chrome.