General Opera Feedback Topic
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operafan17 last edited by
The Opera VPN was one of the few things keeping me with Opera but earlier this week it got me banned from my email account and I can't get back in.
The Opera VPN is a bit of a joke when comes to privacy because the IP's are registered to Opera, so it is obvious you are using a VPN and it is easy to add the Opera VPN's to a blacklist.
I was just replying to an email and suddenly got locked out,
So I decided to test the paltry 4 choices we get
Optimum
Europe
Americas
Asia3 of the 4 were actually Opera Servers in Pakistan, the 4th could not be determined. No wonder I got banned, and it seems that the Opera servers are not doing enough to stop unsolicited mail or hacking because the reason for the block was alleged breach of terms and conditions.
I only write a handful of emails a day and do not participate in scams or hacking, I would not know how.
To be honest I think Opera lost it's USP when it sold it's soul and used Google Chrome as a base code. There is no way we can know what is lurking inside that code, certainly YouTube techs who monitor the traffic of all the browsers suggest they do not protect privacy adequately.
Opera does not have it's own add-on library, instead it used Google so Google determine if an app can be developed. The number of apps available for Firefox has always been their strength but they moved to a new platform which left many developers in the lurch. Firefox also became bloatware (as did Opera), so Opera had a chance to grab the old Firefox and fork it.
Those forks exist and run their own library but they do not have the resources of Opera, it is not too late to have an Opera lite.
The amount of memory and CPU that Opera takes up is absurd and there is very little in settings to reduce this. Even the first Microsoft Explorer had ways to use less memory (for example not loading images.
On an iPad or iPhone using Safari I can have hundreds of tabs open with no performance degradation on the device. Yet with opera, more than 6 and it gets flakey, also I am not convinced I get the memory back if I close those tabs.
So I guess I am going to have to find a fork of the old Firefox or use one of the more esoteric browsers.
For now Opera is no longer my default and I have disabled the VPN, I still do not have my email back and was also blocked from other sites that do two factor authentication, their emails are sitting in the inbox of the now defunk email account. All this because of Opera VPN.
I have had to turn off hardware acceleration as that appears to be using nearly 500mb of ram, so you see bit by bit Opera has less going for it. This makes me sad because the one thing we need is strong competition to Google, such a mistake to use their code.
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redapple001 last edited by
Many sites have different ad-promoting methods, like opening an ad in a new tab and many sites able detect that I'm using ad blocker. At the time, GX ad blocker wasn't able to do anything. But I saw a browser, they were able to fix this trick (Brave)
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Redenegue last edited by
I have never been able to completely save and restore settings with Opera.
I have never been able to completely transfer my settings to another computer.
Recently I had to transfer settings and passwords to my wife's computer.
She uses Firefox. It was simple and easy.
I used to use Firefox, but honestly I prefer Opera.
It is no longer an issue. I am tired of putting up with Opera's issues with back up and restore.
I am moving back to Firefox.
I also do not appreciate the need to agree to receive emails, just to log into this forum.
I will be immediately blocking all Opera emails and will shortly delete this account if possible.
I am not alone with this issue, but Opera seems to not care.
Too bad for you. Goodbye and good riddance! -
LeaAmancay last edited by
I love opera, but if I can't have ecosia as my browser, I won't use it.... I find it quite absurd that many people have been asking the same question for years on this forum, but yet, you have taken no notice apparently.
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A Former User last edited by
@redenegue you did realise you can cancel that opera forum start-up message and you're still logged in?
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dripyanim last edited by
i dunno why the programmers are adding stuff noone cares about and messing with things that ppl like. it doesnt make sense. if something works leave it alone. noone cares about a loud splash screen where you have to run and turn your volume down.. get rid of it..this is rediculous
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kman198 last edited by leocg
Started the whole "i'm only going to serach the first 2 letter when you type in search from the speed dial" junk again. man I am so sick, of this browser. Going back to firefox this week. You had this b.s. fixed for how long?
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damnyou last edited by
@kman198
I don't know if it's true that the contributors to the Opera forum are really the most ignorant, vulgar and low-class of any browser forum contributors, but I've seen enough. Opera is my preferred browser, but I've had enough of these low-life jackasses. Generally, I'm against censorship, but the Opera forum is what happens when no one takes any account of what is posted here.Goodbye forum. I've seen enough--too much--of you, and I am happily closing this unpleasant chapter of my viewing experience.
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te5la last edited by
I just decided to revive a Dell Optiplex I had laying around. I upgraded it to 8GB and added an SSD. Brand new install of Windows 7 Ultimate fulled updated, decided to go with Opera as browser.
I was very disappointed to find that, when playing YouTube videos, even at 480 and standard viewing size, the video was very choppy. It looked like a slide show. There are no extensions whatsoever, no virus programs, etc.
I immediately installed Chrome and the same videos play perfectly at 1080, even full screen. So the claim about the performance advantage over Chrome just isn't true.
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Seeboxs last edited by
Hi I didn't know you had to pay for an add-on to left click and translate a web page. Maybe I didn't use the right app. Opera is perfect, but if there is no native web page translation.... it won't go far. You offer AI from everywhere, and how sad was I when I had to use ggole to translate a web page.... It's a shame everything else is perfect. Is it me who's wrong, or is it like that?
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zatroskany last edited by
It's sad to admit but opera is just... bad
Why? you may ask, well I switched to opera around 3 years ago, I saw a few advertisements and decided I should try it. Before opera I used avast secure browser.
I noticed that one of the most important functions that opera didn't have was: (even with the avast security extension) was blocking popping up tabs. Some websites open a tabs with viruses when you click anything, it's not about the viruses beacouse antiviruses will deal with them quickly, you just have to close a tab every second
After 2 years of usage something started happening
Opera started crashing, not just crashing but displaying a black screen that you can't interact with. I was closed out of my browser for days, sometimes even weeks. At this point Im just tired of it, that is why I'm leaving opera, won't come back propably
