Do you still use Opera?

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Do you still use Opera?

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Do you guys still use Opera? An opinion, but also some damming facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedU3mNm-3Y    

It's kind of sad actually, Opera was a browser that kind of made me switch to Linux back in the days, my logic was "I do 99% of what I need in Opera, if Xandros comes with that that it means I can use Linux for 99% of what I need" Back in the days when Xandros was released with Opera, then I moved to MEPIS... but Opera used to be the first thing I would install.
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Xandros was one of my first Linux distros. So I used Opera and it was quite good. Also used it on Mepis for a while. I have not used it for several years.
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Just gave Vivaldi a try based on the video Adrian posted. It is very good in my opinion.
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#5 Post by junoluna »

thanks rich

based on the video and your comment, i am giving it a go myself

it is rather nice and could well stick

thought netflix would be a hiccup but got that working too with a few settings changes ... seems it has widevine support
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I don't use Opera. I always found it difficult and haven't tried in many years. I use Vivaldi as my backup browser and find it very satisfactory.
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I've used it and really liked it, but I'm sticking with Firefox for now. I'm pretty sure Opera has a proprietary license, which I'm not a fan of for web browsers. But it does have some great features, especially the built in VPN.
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But it does have some great features, especially the built in VPN.
That was one of the main things attacked in video...
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used to .. not so recently, though.
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Adrian wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2020 8:45 pm Do you guys still use Opera? An opinion, but also some damming facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedU3mNm-3Y    

It's kind of sad actually, Opera was a browser that kind of made me switch to Linux back in the days, my logic was "I do 99% of what I need in Opera, if Xandros comes with that that it means I can use Linux for 99% of what I need" Back in the days when Xandros was released with Opera, then I moved to MEPIS... but Opera used to be the first thing I would install.
I actually switched to Opera back in the day because of you, I loved it.

Been using Google Chrome for a long time now, especially the synching with the phone and such contributed to that.
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