[Request]Opera GX on Linux
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Vioar last edited by
Is for Opera really so hard to make one single .appimage or flatpak file for linux, when they already made opera gx for android, which is linux distro, and for mac, what is unix like linux? If they will do it, they get really much of new users. There are around 30 milions of linux user and I think at least half of them want to use opera GX.
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Bati last edited by
@vioar
OperaGX. As far as I know, it is only available on Windows, the Iphone and Android versions are very different, they only share the name and design.
I think the biggest drawback to make OperaGX on another OS is the resource limiter, they must have built all the code based on how windows handles system resources. -
linuxrocks2000 last edited by
@Bati it's trivial enough to port resource code to a Unix environment, if they're using C or C++ it would just mean some preprocessor definitions and well-written interfaces. If they don't already have the code structured properly, that's a whole 'nother problem entirely...
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linuxrocks2000 last edited by
@gmgarciam Ooo, can we get a link to this GitHub? Open-source competition for Opera GX time!
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drrootkit last edited by
@linuxrocks2000 Not Chromium, but we have Firefox GX (https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx). Doesn't have the RAM limiters or GX mods, but just the Skin. For sound themes and music, you can use the GX Mods Firefox Addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gx-mods/). It doesn't have themes or wallpapers however.
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CaptainLian last edited by
Just finished migrating to Linux mint. Sadly since Opera GX isn't supported. I'll just be using Firefox, or Brave from now on.
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xanaddams last edited by
@captainlian I'm currently using regular Opera. It works well enough. But doesn't match the aesthetics I was going for that were very much GX inspired. Also, the GPU and RAM controls are pretty much the only thing missing.
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xanaddams last edited by
@gmgarciam thorium browser is a chromium one that has every tweak available to boost it and it runs on a fraction of the power of even chromium. I use it as a alternate to chrome when I don't use regular Opera. If we could tweak up this to start looking like, and then eventually running equal to Opera gx, we'd have something.
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CaptainLian last edited by
@xanaddams The dark mode, theming, sounds, and especially the memory limiters is what got me into Opera GX. Sadly all of those doesn't exists in the normal opera.
And there's only a handful of Chromium-based browsers I would be willing to use, so I went back to firefox.
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DrakEmono last edited by
I just got the steam deck, but in addition to play with games, I want to be able to use it for work as well when I'm moving, as I really can use it as a mini laptop for Linux. And yeah, one of the first web browsers I looked for was Opera GX... So +1 for Opera GX here!!!
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VidimusWolf last edited by
No support for Linux... Disappointing, but I hope they are working on it! Will keep using Chrome for now. Thing is, my personal PC runs on Windows, but unless I can migrate to a single browser for all my devices, my work laptop included (running Linux), then I just can't justify migrating to Opera GX.
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MyTricker0 last edited by
someone made a fork from firefox to look exactelly like opera gx
your welcome:https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx
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gmgarciam last edited by
@linuxrocks2000 when it comes to performance, I feel that it comes down to whether the browser supports hardware acceleration and if the pages you're browsing have a lot of ads.
So on Linux, chrome/chromium hardware acceleration isn't always a given. Or at least it wasn't, I haven't checked if things have changed but before you would have to build Chromium with hardware acceleration enabled.
As to the ads, the browser would require to have an ad blocker automatically built in.
But yeah, I've been pretty busy with work. I haven't checked out Firefox GX, but those Firefox-gx guys should add my suggestions if they haven't already.
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illogicalfallacy last edited by
yea its safe to say its not happening! if they were working on it, they would say something!
