Opera Browser and Opera GX are bloated web browsers, and the company behind them has tried to cover up its controversies.
  • Lutra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    late to the party, but I had OperaGX do a clever evil thing recently - I have an old machine running MacOS 10.14 (for reasons), I had GX up, and I alt-tab’d and noticed there was the “don’t symbol” (ghostbusters) over the OperaGX Icon. I thought, “that can’t be right”. I’m running GX right now. I double checked, and I was using GX with several windows open. But the symbol was right - they had Updated OperaGX that I WAS running, WHILE I was running it, to a version that WOULDN’T work on the computer I was on. I eventually restarted GX, and got a 'You can’t use OperaGX with this version of MacOS". Jerks.

    I dug around, and very roughly, the .app file is not the App. They use a folder off in Library to store the actual pieces of the app, and it there is a few different pieces, and the .app file points to the actual executables.

    Anyway it was fun while it lasted. Never again.

  • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Switched to Vivaldi last year and haven’t looked back. Did some side by side with FireFox for a month or two on my phone. I have a cheap 2022 Moto G something or other, running whatever Android it shipped with.

    I guess that like a lot of people, I don’t like having apps tracking stuff, but my work requires me to have access to Facebook, Insta, Threads, and the like… so, I just use browser shortcut widgets for them instead (I should quit my job, I know, I know… working on it). Both Firefox and Vivaldi immediately figured out that I wanted to run them in containers so that was great. However, Vivaldi runs all of them so smooth where as Firefox just kind of stumbles around. Some of them would refuse to work some days, just bringing up the web browser container and then crash. Facebook dot com was the worst… there were issues with the UI not showing me the text input bubbles and latency with button presses was terrible… like needing a refresh to show a “like” or even that a notification was read. It was almost unusable. Bizarrely, Outlook was also bad on FireFox… like that’s a fairly bog standard email client and “productivity” site, but on FireFox it would crash more than it worked. Vivaldi handles all of the sites/platforms I need like I’m running the apps.

    Maybe it’s something with my cheap ass phone and Motorola’s bloatware, but Firefox crashed and burned more than it worked. I cannot recommend Vivaldi enough.

  • 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.

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Mozilla has bad resource management, that’s a fact.

      However turning into a loan shark app business? I really don’t think so. Unless another browser enters the market and takes off (which is extremely difficult given the tons of features browsers are built to support for all sorts of websites) Mozilla never has to worry that much about money since Google is their top funder; and Google’s main reason to fund them is to not deal with all sorts of legal issues and fines they’ll recieve for creating a monopoly.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Oh come now. Who would have predicted Opera would have ended up like this? Even with hindsight this dark path is hard to predict bit the overall trend is not.

        Mozilla has created something of value and it has amassed a growing audience. If you are willing to invest in your confidence, I would happily short you in 10years or less, it’s nearly ripe for corruption and not at all immune from something similar to what has become of Opera. Trusting that Google will doing anything consistent is another lesson in ignoring trends.

        • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          The moment Opera was sold to China it was obvious that it’s time to jump ship.