Positively Preferring oPera over the Pretenders!
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treego last edited by treego
Opera's "click on a tab" to move to the top of the page is nice ... very few other browsers have such a thing.
I also like the fact I can middle-click on the empty space on the tab bar to quickly open a new tab/Speed Dial/Start Page. Do other browsers do this? It doesn't seem to happen in Chrome, Brave, or Vivaldi anyway.
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treego last edited by
How many other browsers besides Opera have a context menu item (upon right clicking a link) to "add link to bookmarks" and "remove link from bookmarks?"
Very handy!
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treego last edited by
AI News option in StartPage with various category customizations options (i.e., News, Sports, Technology, Health, etc.) is nicely done without a big hit on browser performance at all.
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treego last edited by
Twitter in Sidebar!
With crystal-clear font!
Memory is released automatically when Twitter view in sidebar is closed!
Brilliant!
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treego last edited by
Moving tabs to other workspaces comes with an indicator in the sidebar for the workspace acquiring the new tab. Excellent!
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treego last edited by treego
The aesthetics of Opera's browser is the best I have come across ... other browsers just have a clunkier look to me. Combine that with Opera's snappy UI (compared to other browsers), and Opera is my winner!
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treego last edited by leocg
Opera's ability to search not only tab title and tab url but also tab/page content in Quick Search (Search in Tabs) for both open tabs and recently closed tabs is awesome! I see no other browser doing this.
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treego last edited by treego
" Ctrl-` " keyboard shortcut to go back and forth between two tabs. It works flawlessly and quickly. Most other browsers have to rely on some bloated extension for similar capability, albeit not as well-performing, though.
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treego last edited by
The multiple options presented for speed dial button images is very nice in Opera!
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treego last edited by
Now, Opera affords me keyboard shortcuts for my social sidebar options ... I use ALT-SHIFT-T for Twitter and ALT-SHIFT-F for Facebook Messenger ... this matches Vivaldi's ability to do this. Thank you, Opera!
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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.
