Positively Preferring oPera over the Pretenders!
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newworldman last edited by
@treego I actually preferred its original implementation. I was only really interested in incremental tab search on the titles of tabs, which I customised to F2. Now it returns too much information. For example I almost never want to search for content inside tabs other than the one I'm in.
In the original implementation I could spot the tab I was interested in very quickly. Now it can take several seconds or I have to type more characters to narrow it down. So it's a speed bump.
I don't mind when software vendors add new features. What's annoying is when they remove old ones - unless the new features offer more or more usable functionality. Often they don't.
Opera and Vivaldi are supposed to be about customisability - more so than the other Chromium browsers, so it's even worse when they remove behaviour.
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treego last edited by
Easy Files is the latest innovation from Opera that for me is another winner!
I can now more easily and quickly than ever attach files to my emails or Twitter and Facebook posts.
One can attach files to virtually anything so elegantly now!
Thank you, Opera!
You can read more about it here: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2020/09/attach-files-with-wild-abandon-presenting-easy-files/
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shintoplasm01 last edited by
@treego You refer to Vivaldi and Brave as browsers which "also" respect users' privacy like Opera. Sadly, Opera's erstwhile reputation around privacy is not borne by various tests - these highlight Opera's multifold connections to tracking servers at practically every keystroke.
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shintoplasm01 last edited by
@treego I think you misunderstand me. The connections come from Opera's core browser, not from the user's browsing activities (which can indeed be protected through ad-blocking). I'm talking about Opera's built-in telemetry and connections which are in addition to your own browsing. Vivaldi and Brave don't have this issue, to my knowledge.
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treego last edited by
@shintoplasm01 said in Positively Preferring oPera over the Pretenders!:
@treego I think you misunderstand me. The connections come from Opera's core browser, not from the user's browsing activities (which can indeed be protected through ad-blocking). I'm talking about Opera's built-in telemetry and connections which are in addition to your own browsing. Vivaldi and Brave don't have this issue, to my knowledge.
Do you have a link to this? I see no speed decline in Opera. It seems Opera is more swift than these other browsers.
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treego last edited by treego
Opera has pinboards now, too! opera://pinboards
Another great feature that is similar to Edge's "collections" feature.
"Here you can collect websites, images, links & notes, and share them with others - no matter what device they're using.
Pinboards are integrated into Opera Browser, so you don't need any account or login."
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treego last edited by
@treego As of Opera 84, Opera now has something I don't see in any other browser -- Paste Protection.
Here is how Opera describes this cool new feature to protect us:
Paste protection
Opera 84 has just made browsing and online payments even safer with our new Paste Protection feature. Whenever you copy-paste any sensitive data, like a credit card number or crypto wallet identifier, you run the risk of it being hijacked and modified by some bad actors who want your money to land in their accounts instead.Paste Protection protects you from this. When you copy sensitive data in Opera Browser, the data is monitored for changes for some time or until you paste the data. If the data is changed by an external application, a warning is displayed.
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treego last edited by
Opera 89 is humming very nicely here ... still my favorite over worthy contenders in Vivaldi, Brave, etc.
Optional website panels via opera://flags is another seeming to be upcoming built-in feature that operates quite nicely here!
Flow is saving me a lot of headaches lately with going back and forth from Desktop to Phone ... love it!
I am loving the instant weather lookups in the address bar, too, now.
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