I’ve been using Opera for a few years now and I’ve been enjoying its features, UI and everything. However, I (surprisingly to me) haven’t noticed many people mentioning it. Also, when I was on Reddit and mentioned that I use it I got downvoted which left me somewhat confused haha.

So I’m wondering if there’s anything wrong with it and/or if I should give another browser a go (I noticed Firefox is mentioned a lot on here)

  • SmallAlmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    87·
    vor 1 Jahr

    Opera is just chromium with extra spyware and shit. Firefox is mentioned a lot because it is foss, and my favorite browser for that matter.

    • chrizbie@lemmy.nzEnglish
      28·
      vor 1 Jahr

      Sadly this is the truth these days, opera certainly has had it moments in the sun in the past (especially on lower spec devices) but I would personally stare clear these days

      Firefox is really the only true alternative

      Small shout-out to edge browser’s built in pdf editing functions though, this is really handy on PC at times

      • BlueFairyPainter@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        vor 1 Jahr

        And Edge’s built-in vertical tabs. They’re so clean and neat and the groups are colored and feel good to use while with most other browsers, vertical tabs feel like a hack, like you’re going against the browser’s intended usage. A year ago you’d have a hard time convincing me to use any Microsoft products but after using Edge at work for a while, I switched away from Firefox on my personal machines as well.