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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by A Former User

      Let me add a couple more...

      - Keeping up with chromium releases
      As of today (March 22nd, 2019), opera stable is still based on chromium 71, which means it lags 2 major versions behind,
      That delay became visible, again, yesterday that ubuntu upgraded chromium and chromium ffmpeg codecs to 73 and there are already THREE threads with the usual "vids are not playing today, but they did play yesterday" complaint. And all of them are from ubuntu (or ubuntu-based distro) users.
      Its more than obvious that opera's 3 channels of development (stable, beta and developer) just can't keep up with chromium's 3 (stable, beta and dev). So why don't wou just drop one and keep stable and beta for instance, like you do on the for mobile opera and opera mini?
      I hate to say it, but I assume you know which chromium based browser, and a good opera alternative (as considered by many people but not me) does that: vivaldi. (stable and snapshot versions).

      - Stable releases tied to ubuntu's releases of chromium (?)
      I am pretty sure the opera team is waiting for ubuntu to package the next version of chromium before releasing the next version in line for stable.
      Of course this does not apply for the last 2 versions of chromium, because of the above reason.
      So, although I can not recall the exact version or opera and chromium, I can recall at least one time that the slow pokes of ubuntu packaged chromium 3-4 WEEKS after its official release. And opera followed, relaasing the next version on stable channel a couple of days later. Needless to say that almost ALL distros had packaged chromium in the first 10 days or so.
      Why should someone, regardless of distro, wait for ubuntu's maintainers in order to see an update for his/her main browser?

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

        Each version of Opera is based on a version of Chromium. So when a new stable version is released, a newer version of Chromium will be there.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          You are totally wrong on that, and here is the proof. Opera 58 is based on chromium 71 and that chromium version was released 3 months ago

          https://help.opera.com/en/opera-version-history/

          Opera 59 (chromium 72 based) is not in beta anymore, while opera 60 (chromium 73 based) is on both beta and developer channels. In fact, given the existing mess, I would not be suprised if opera stable skipped 59 completely and went straight to 60. That would be the best solution imho.

          On top of that, let me make an example of how chromium's versioning works in relation to time, and compare it to how opera's versioning does.

          • Today, chromium 73 is in stable, 74 is in beta and 75 is in dev. The day that 74 reaches stable, 75 will become beta and 76 will become dev. On the very same day, without any delay.
            The same happens in firefox too, but firefox is a different story, not related to ours.
          • In opera though, things are different. I will use a different set of version numbers because today's is messed up with opera stable being on 58 and both beta and developer being at 60, Let's say opera stable is at 58, opera beta is at 59 and opera developer is at 60 today, so that the number "match".
            If opera 59 becomes stable tomorrow, opera beta will stay at 59 and developer will stay at 60 for some time When will they be updated? Sometime in the following days and not on the same day again, because there is no real schedule about it!

          And that is what bugs me above when I say that 3 branches are too much for the devs to handle.

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

            And what it has to do with what I said?

            Opera 58 is based on Chromium 71, Opera 59 would be based on 72 and 60 is based on 73, that's what I said.

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

              I guess that because of Reborn 3 there was a delay in Opera releases and that's why they are so behind in what regards to Chromium versions.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                The schedule example? It has nothing to do with what you said.
                I was just pointing out that today's opera stable is not based on today's (or even the previous) version of chromium but on an even older one. You said that there is one stable version of opera for each stable version of chromium and I proved you wrong.

                And you are probably right about the delay due to reborn 3, but try explaining that to a simple user like the ones that started the 3 threads yesterday. All with a different subject/issue yet all pointing to the same problem.
                For most of us, regular functionality is more important than a redesign.

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by leocg

                  You didn't prove anything. What I said was that each version of Opera is based on a version of Chromium and that's correct.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    Since my other thread about csd was locked without any notification or explanation, even with a pm, I add the bad csd as another annoyance.

                    - Ugly csd that can not be removed
                    https://forums.opera.com/topic/28146/opera-55-getting-rid-of-that-ugly-csd/

                    p.s. If there is any mod that knows the reason it was locked, please pm me.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Lets add one more.

                      - Removal of opera and opera-next from the deb repo
                      They both are on v12.16, the last one using presto as the rendering engine, and they must have been there since 2014 or so.
                      Today, they are not even installable, due to the prehistoric dependencies they want

                      $ sudo apt-get install opera
                      Reading package lists... Done
                      Building dependency tree       
                      Reading state information... Done
                      Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
                      requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
                      distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
                      or been moved out of Incoming.
                      The following information may help to resolve the situation:
                      
                      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
                       opera : Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.16) but it is not installable
                               Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.15) but it is not installable
                               Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not installable
                      E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
                      
                      $ sudo apt-get install opera-next 
                      Reading package lists... Done
                      Building dependency tree       
                      Reading state information... Done
                      Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
                      requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
                      distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
                      or been moved out of Incoming.
                      The following information may help to resolve the situation:
                      
                      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
                       opera-next : Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.16) but it is not installable
                                    Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.15) but it is not installable
                                    Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not installable
                      E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
                      

                      So please remove them 🙂

                      Luckily, the yum (rpm) side of the repo contains only the latest packages.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by A Former User

                        There is a chromium based browser that I refused to use because it was based on electron, or actually a fork of it. When I discovered that it is no longer based on it, I installed it so as to check how it compares to opera, especially on the issues I mention on this thread.
                        So, after a month of usage, here it goes.

                        Codecs
                        It is built so as to the system's ffmpeg libraries, so its h264 (and other html5 codec) support is on par with the other browsers on the system.
                        In fact, I wanted to confirm it that much, that I asked the devs themselves on the project's page on github and they provided all the info.
                        I learned that the build flag
                        USE_SYSTEM_FFMPEG=true or false
                        that I had mentioned months ago no longer exists and now the same thing is done via 2 build flags
                        proprietary_codecs = true
                        and
                        ffmpeg_branding = "Chrome"
                        I checked them on chromium's build options on debian and arch and they are the same.

                        Search engines
                        Although there is no way to select the search engine when you right click on some highlighted text, because it defaults to google (or the one you select as default in options), you can delete the search engines you do not use.

                        Keeping up with chromium releases
                        I have to admit that its devs are doing a great work on that. There is a new release every time a new chromium release comes out from upstream.
                        Not even the chromium maintainers from my distro are that fast!
                        And for that reason, their releases are not tied to ubuntu's releases

                        Csd
                        Although the browser does come with its own csd, it can be disabled through its options menu.

                        These are my findings so far. There are also some other, less important (to me at least), e.g. the compatibility with extensions from the chrome store.
                        I won't be leaving opera anytime soon, but I think that if the devs of a lesser known browser can do all that, I am sure that the opera ones can too.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          Asking for a friend: what is the name of the browser?

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by A Former User

                            Let me add one more.

                            - Removal of the 32bit packages of chromium-based opera.
                            Since opera has dropped support for 32bit 2+years ago, please remove the 32bit packages from both the deb and the rpm repo.
                            Assuming that someone is advanced enough to first install opera's repo and then the browser from it, he can install opera's 32 bit version because the packages are still there! And this leads to more issues, like the one described here
                            https://forums.opera.com/topic/30291/www-lloydsbank-com-crashes-opera/

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                            • Lv44EnderShaman
                              Lv44EnderShaman last edited by

                              What bugs me about Opera in Linux, in particular, is the strict adherence to a theme engine that does not support ricing the browser using the native GTK+ and DE themes. Honestly, I've never been fond of the sudden, massive push as of a few years ago to adopt a 'Metro/Material' design aesthetic on desktop or laptop Operating Systems. I want my desktop to look unified, clear, and distinct to use agnostic of any operating system, and I find the best way to do so is to use applications that adopt OS-agnostic theme engines.

                              I've had this problem on Windows for years now, and I'm aiming to properly switch to Linux completely. And Opera looks, well, honestly very janky with flat windows and icons when compared to my desktop applications on Ubuntu MATE. I don't see how people tolerate it, honestly.

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                              • minho
                                minho last edited by minho

                                Horrible pixelated icon in alt+tab menu of KDE Plasma desktop environment.
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