Native M1 ARM Version of Opera?

[gik-team]

gik-team @leocg last edited by

@leocg, the problem is that for M1 users, the current version of the Opera browser is very slow. Yes, it works in general but very slow) Without adding support, this cannot be fixed.
Let's wait and hope ...

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[iro]

iro last edited by leocg

Opera 74.0.3911.160 (latest)
macOS 11.2.2

Just migrated all my stuff from my "old" Intel i9 to Apple M1 (using macOS built-in Migration Assistant).
Ref. Opera:
Most Settings gone, all entries in Quick-Start gone - this can be fixed quickly w. little effort.
Luckily it kept the stored passwords.

But. ... Opera is basically Unusable in its current release on M1. Sooooo sloooooow!

I even reset Opera and deleted all settings and everything - same story

Switched to Brave Browser for now, as Safari (which I used and loved since its existence), doesn't feature Plugins and I am Saturated of those idiotic cookie messages and Guugle asking me like 100x per day if I care to accept their silly terms, YuuTuube asking the same and wether I care to log in (No ! I don't :D) showing useless ads. Those were the 1st reasons to leave Safari and join Opera.

Opera is still the best Browser on Intel, not only for the unmatched feature of saving webpages 1:1 as PDF!
The best, except maybe the lack of the standard macOS key-Combo to cycle through windows
(i.e. Command and the 1st key next to the left SHIFT-key mostly the "<"-key :°)

Looking forward to the Devs solving this soon.

Cheers!

[nintendork07]

nintendork07 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Opera feels significantly slower than brave, edge and chrome on the M1 macs. everything takes longer to load and it's just not a good experience. in speedometer 2.0 (web browsing test) it gets less than half the score (200 vs 100).

i've switched to brave (for the time being) and absolutely love it. I recommend anyone with an m1 mac to switch to it until Opera releases a native M1 version. it's too big of a real world difference to ignore.

[gik-team]

gik-team last edited by gik-team

76.0.3989.0 developer update This happened!
Holy smokes! ARM build is so fast!

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[iro]

iro @gik-team last edited by

@gik-team
Nice! Much better, much faster.

Yet still behind Brave and Safari - at least performance-wise.

But the Devs are on the right path.

[gik-team]

gik-team last edited by

https://get.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/75.0.3969.93/mac/Opera_75.0.3969.93_Autoupdate_arm64.tar.xz stable

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[mhoobag1]

mhoobag1 @gik-team last edited by

@gik-team Same. I have now nearly fully transitioned over to Mac Safari and I did not want to do that!

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mhoobag1 last edited by

I have 98% switched over to safari and I didn't want that. The only thing I use Opera for now it the naughty sites I cant remember the passwords for. It is such a shame because I now do not bother to launch Opera on my mobile either. I always loved using flow to send pages between my devices.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @mhoobag1 last edited by

@mhoobag1 So why haven't you tried the latest version?

[kyu3]

kyu3 last edited by

Opera Stable supported M1!

• Opera just got even faster with M1 support for Mac fans and custom shortcuts - Blog | Opera Desktop

[iro]

iro last edited by

Opera on M1 runs great now! Many thanks to the devs!

...as for shortcuts, unfortunately still no shortcut to cycle through open windows (should be "command <" as that is macOS standard key-combo afaik :°)