Opera browsers in 2020, what’s next?
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A Former User last edited by
@artexjay Yes, I'm not using Opera anymore since I became aware of the Hindenburg Research report. I'm not supporting a company so it sends money to the CEO's other business (Qihoo 360) and put it as "paying for advertising services" in the financial report when it isn't even an advertising company, I don't endorse Qihoo 360, I don't endorse Opera using the money they gained from browsers to become a fintech acting as a loan shark with hideous annual interest rates in developed countries. I can't endorse the company that once acted as a defender of open web standards and internet innovation bowing and becoming a tool so that shareholders can make some money above any ethics. And when they're called upon on it, they give a blank meaningless default PR statement to the public lying about their practices and declaring themselves innocent. For the misfortune of its employees as brilliant as they may be, if it can't be separated from the parent company/owners, Opera should die...
I migrated all my data to Vivaldi and cleared the data from Opera sync. I'm grateful I won't even have to cope with Opera removing the full list of closed tabs and choosing for me what I'm supposed to have in my panels in the next version (put Instagram but doesn't let the user add his own web panels which is basically the same frigging tech), because for who knows why they decided to mess with that sh!t. I recommend Vivaldi to everyone who have ethics and loves what Opera used to be, because Opera is no more. I can also recommend Firefox for people that need lees features and can cope with its UI (I hate that scrollable tab bar with passion haha, same for the mobile version lack of good UI and features) because now it's the only player able to maintain Chromium's advances towards the open web standards in check, and as Vivaldi it's a company that doesn't have "make money for the shareholders" as their sole purpose. I'm still using Yandex browser in Android because of the full bottom UI and features (text wrap, ad-blocking/extensions support) but I'm not sure if I can recommend it because it's a big company present in the stock market and it's present on a lot of morally gray business I don't support like late capitalism gig economy and who knows what else, I can't really find good contextualized/historical information on this big Russian company in the languages I understand, so I should be looking for an alternative.
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wyz23x2 last edited by
I used Opera regular before, and wanted to change to Opera Beta. So I installed it. But all extensions and bookmarks weren't there. The old one was still on my computer, so I removed Beta and continued to use the regular. That shouldn't seem right!
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@wyz23x2 said in Opera browsers in 2020, what’s next?:
I used Opera regular before, and wanted to change to Opera Beta. So I installed it. But all extensions and bookmarks weren't there.
That's expected. Opera Stable, Opera Beta, Opera Developer, and Opera GX all use separate profiles. You'd need to export import or copy things over from one profile to another or use Opera Sync to get things from one profile to another.
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A Former User last edited by
@rafaelluik Good read, I agree with everything you said.
I use Yandex on PC since I think it offers pretty much the same stuff as Opera but in a more refined and polished manner. I also use Vivaldi as well as the new Chromium Edge.
