Opera GX Lands on Linux

[Felixgamer27]

Felixgamer27 last edited by

peak update, hope to see full compatibility soon

[Asshole-Sniffer]

Asshole-Sniffer last edited by Asshole-Sniffer

I plan on getting a USB stick to flash a Linux distro and have my laptop dual boot Windows 10 and likely Linux mint due to the age of the hardware. Though, I've been looking into what Linux users tend to say, and many have security and privacy concerns surrounding the Opera browser.

On Windows 10, I used this cover your tracks website by Electronic Frontier Foundation to test how private this browser is, and the results say: "Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking".

In the following section:
"Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a unique fingerprint"
To me, it's equivalent to any other Chromium based web browser.

Unsure if results would differ on Linux systems, however.

[4n0n1m0-117]

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does it have suport on ARCH linux?

[Zpeaxirious]

Zpeaxirious @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426: $ paru -S opera-gx-stable ----- if I remember correctly

[uniturtlegamer]

uniturtlegamer @jediknight36 last edited by

@jediknight36: just use flathub on bazzite, rpm -ostree or distroshelf. I use bazzite.

[saykotolga]

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“In the Brave browser, we can enable the use of the mouse middle button through chrome://flags. However, this feature is not available in Opera. Could you please add this feature?

[Chip-Arg]

Chip-Arg last edited by

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 with KDE over Wayland and I still can't play live streams from YouTube. A shame.