Overall, it’s been a smooth and enjoyable experience!

I'm migrating from, mainly, Vivaldi, which is about the only browser that would really work with Windows 7 Home. Previously, I've tried Chrome, Firefox, Palemoon, Midori (these two very briefly) and a bunch of others (pretty much everything I could find) that I can't remember or really care to list right now. And, of course, I've tried a former Opera version. None of them would work, and I had settled for a couple years now with Vivaldi. But It has its flaws, main one being kinda intensive on the CPU, and video streaming started giving errors these last weeks, etc.

And then I heard about a new Opera version and decided to try it on. I can't believe how well it works. Faster, much faster than all the rest (on this 'old' system, a Dual Core Intel with 1.5 GB, 3 GB RAM, etc.). And I gotta say, the performance is flawless so far. It actually seems to possess technology from the future when compared with its competitors.

That sums it up for me. I wanna say thank you for all the work: well done. I think this may be the best browser I've ever used.
Congratulations and keep it up.

Source: https://mspoweruser.com/fastest-browser-pc/

Thanks for clearing that up although I do wish the PC opera would with regain the capacity to not be updated.

Cheers

If you don't use any of the AI tools, both Opera One and Opera for Android will be just regular browsers.

So you're saying I'm misunderstanding or confusing the Android app (in which I know I can choose to use Aria and I don't) and can also now update and choose the fully ai-based Android app, which I don't want).

I thought that the PC version was also fully AI based already, (like the new Android app), which I do not want.!

If the PC version is not fully ai-based now, it probably will be soon. That keeps my issue relevant because I can't stop opera on PC from automatically downloading and installing the latest version currently, unless something changes, when the new version of opera ai-based comes out, I'll have to wind up abandoning uninstalling opera once again.

Have I got that right

The jury may still be out on whether an AI civilization is safe for humanity as a whole, but I for one steadfastly remain on the cautious side of that existential issue.

Moreover as one who prioritizers his privacy in a world where it is rapidly evaporating, and also being forcibly stripped in from us in both public and private places, the consumption of my personal life details, activities and interests by a machine designed to learn, aggregate and integrate all manner of information into a collective sphere in order to make itself an perfectly informed entity, is unacceptable to me. And you will not easily convince me that somehow your OS does, or will remain, sandboxed from the rest of the internet. "Oops, sorry we had a data breach and are doing everything we can to restore our integrity".

I demand of Opera developers and management that they consult with their conscience and thereby facilitate the restoration of one's privacy (at least to a degree) by avoiding assimilation with "The Borg" by using Opera's browser

You seem to be, at the moment, the one browser that has “ads” on YouTube, stating all it’s great features etc. Now I ask you, is this a case of many things with “ads” on YouTube etc, blowing a trumpet but when it comes down to the niting gritty, it’s got gremlins and not all that great.

Try to import passwords (csv)!
Try syncing!
Try saving login details!
And shall we forget using it on our iPhones!?!

I’ve been using Brave for ages and in reality, unless Opera can really sort these things out, I truly can’t see any reason to switch which is a pity.

Opera, get your act together!

Officially, custom search engines stopped being allowed for security reasons, to avoid them being hijacked by malware. Searches are also the main source of revenue of a browser.

DL to a other dir.

• Let's you limit amount of ram taken up,
  Haven't tested yet
• Let's you import bookmarks
  Not on my computer
• Let's you create profiles...
  Pretty useless and awkward

I have moved the below content to here, because I was clotting up a post on Aria disappearing.

Transferred content:
I also updated to use Opera GX, on the thought that I could transfer over my existing windows and tabs, and be able to limit the amount of RAM that they take up. My results from that:

• I tried the concept of WorkSpaces in the original Opera One - I am less than satisfied. Spent a couple of hours trying to organize all of my tabs across 5 open windows, into themed workspaces in each window, then tried to move from that to each window having a single workspace. I lost workspaces in other windows, they didn't transfer correctly. Workspaces seemed associated with the original window, and when I thought I was cleaning out, moving to other workspaces in other windows, then closing the current window, it lost everything in the subsequent workspaces, and the tabs in that window, because: other windows are open, you've modded your session..

• No luck trying to save/export the many tabs across 5 windows. No way to "save all tabs as bookmarks". The best you can do with "save all tabs as SpeedDial". I don't know what that does for tabs in separate workspaces, but I'm guessing that you have to visit each workspace in each windows, and save all tabs from that workspace into a speeddial.

• There is NO good way to move contents of a speeddial into bookmarks.

• I wound up pushing all tabs from all 5 windows into Speed Dial entries, figuring that was the way to save my window tab content.

• External recovery MAY be possible: I basically have backed up files names "Tabs" and "Sessions", but it's approaching 8 MB of data, and I don't have the patience to go through it.

• I exported all bookmarks, and speed dials, and PW info, etc. From the Bookmark TAB (vs side menu access), it says that I can export bookmarks, as well as Speed Dials, etc.

• Import into Opera GX did not work, on any level. No sessions, no bookmarks, no speeddials... no PWs. Not happy, devs.

• Opera GX is supposed to get you have "Profiles". It almost kinda sorta does, but not in any useful way. You can force separate profiles as separate Opera Links - but there's no way to go to a specific profile, or switch to another profile from w/in GX. You basically have to PIN each "profile" to your (Windows) Start Bar, to be able to access them. Basically, I have 5 pinned "O"'s taking up room on the task bar... There's not enough contrast between the icon colors,. If you hover over the icon, after a few seconds, it will have a pop=up that tells you what you named that "profile", but it's super tiny.

This is substandard design, substandard UI, and a substandard "features list" - as most of what I'm tried has failed, and I've lost work.