A sad goodbye

OperaUser42

OperaUser42

A sad goodbye to Opera.

First Lastpass stopped working on Opera, it works fine on Chrome, Firefox and Brave, two of which use the same core as Opera so it seems the issue is with Opera. Lastpass do not offer any support unless you pay them so that is a dead end.

Next we have memory and CPU, if I use Opera with only a few tabs it starts to make my laptop go slow until I terminate the application. There as so many Opera processes that it makes we wonder if memory and processes are being released when tabs are closed.

As if these were not enough there is a problem with the Opera VPN. Basically too many sites won't work with it, yet they will work with some of the free VPN extensions and those extensions are accurate about the country they are from. I think it was a big mistake for Opera to register the IP pool it uses as belonging to Opera VPN, it just makes it easy for organisations to blacklist the lot.

Things like Google Captcha do not work, sometimes I can't even get to the login screen of a site.

Hotmail also does not work with Opera VPN, I uses hotmail email mostly for updates from online sites and have fallen behind on some important ones because of Opera.

I might have put up with these errors for several months. I am on Win7 but that is required because of other software I need that does not work with Win10 for security reasons (the whole platform is a browser taking personal data). So I had a choice stay with Win7 or move to Linux, the latter is complex but may be the way I go in the long term.

I really liked Opera but I can't put up with this when if I just export the bookmarks and add same extensions I can be up and running with Brave in an hour.

If only Lastpass and Hotmail worked I might have tolerated the rest. I also noted that if I terminated Opera from the Task Manager Lastpass remained logged in despite my settings to the contrary. So I was logged in to the vault but could not use the toolbar, that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

I think it was a big mistake for Opera to move away from it's own platform to Google Chrome codebase.

Thanks to the devs for work done so far, I hope you resolve these issues. Maybe assign 50% of your Devs to Chrome version and 50% to a new thinner, smarter and lighter Opera Browser.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @OperaUser42

@OperaUser42 said in A sad goodbye:

I am on Win7

The last version of Opera that supported Win7 is old, obsolete and not supported. It was only a matter of time before things started breaking in it. And, of course, you get no fixes or improvements that way. Definitely unfortunate.

Firefox ESR is probably your best bet for Windows 7.