Today my mobile Opera updated and so I found out about Aria. The experience was overall fun and I even found an answer to questions that intrigue me but so far Duck or Google searches haven't been able to give me answers. And for a person like me who left all "social" media, Aria was a nice replacement to waste time on, while waiting on a long line in front of my doctor's office.

The only recommendation I have is that you make Aria open in a new tab, instead of the current setting. The current setting completely takes over the browser window, so if you wanna use the browser at the same time as chatting with the AI, you can't do that. You have to close the conversation with the AI, which IMO is lame. It would be a lot better if the AI had a tab of its own.

@john2003cpht That depends on the window manager, which if I'm not mistaken was named muffin. Since I'm using Cinnamon too (altough an older version, bc anything since 5.4.0 is not what I signed up for), I'm guessing there's something in your current version of muffin that prevents Opera from being maximized every time you start it. I downgraded Cinnamon to 5.2.7 (I'm using Arch, btw) and with it - muffin which is now version 5.2.1. And Opera is maximized every time I start it. You can try downgrading muffin (if you know how) to an older version of better yet - to the same version 5.2.1 I'm using.

I was thinking about writing this feedback somewhere. Until today I didn't even know there was a forum about Opera - Aria told me about it.
I really can't understand how you can make such a great browser for smartphones and yet the desktop edition can be such a... what's the opposite of "great"? There are some good features on the desktop edition but as I said in the title, OFD will never be my default browser. Mostly bc of that limitation that doesn't allow to change the home page. There's a browser extension for Firefox which I love and can't live without (GroupSpeedDial) but I can't use it on Opera bc of the said limitation and that's not the only extension that doesn't work on OFD.
Also, the latest update adds rounded corners and there's no option to disable them. These rounded corners remind me too much of the pure GNOME3 (gross!).

I can only hope that some day you - the developers of Opera - will remember to give the users back the choices of customization and stop behaving like Microsoft who impose their views on the users. If I wanted someone to dictate what my browser will look like and behave, I'd use Internet Explorer or whatever it's called nowadays. Whereas Firefox, even with the web extensions (as opposed to the legacy addons) still offers the best customization level that no other browser on the market offers. Mine is so heavily customized that if I don't tell you it's Firefox, you'd never guess it.
Nearly half of the extensions I use on Firefox (and on Chromium) don't work on Opera and their developers say the reason for that are the constant limitations that you impose into the browser.

Opera used to be a great browser before it adopted the Chrome engine and before it became bloatware.

It really doesn't matter whether you'll approve this topic or not - the important thing is that you would have read it.

@john2003cpht That depends on the window manager, which if I'm not mistaken was named muffin. Since I'm using Cinnamon too (altough an older version, bc anything since 5.4.0 is not what I signed up for), I'm guessing there's something in your current version of muffin that prevents Opera from being maximized every time you start it. I downgraded Cinnamon to 5.2.7 (I'm using Arch, btw) and with it - muffin which is now version 5.2.1. And Opera is maximized every time I start it. You can try downgrading muffin (if you know how) to an older version of better yet - to the same version 5.2.1 I'm using.

Today my mobile Opera updated and so I found out about Aria. The experience was overall fun and I even found an answer to questions that intrigue me but so far Duck or Google searches haven't been able to give me answers. And for a person like me who left all "social" media, Aria was a nice replacement to waste time on, while waiting on a long line in front of my doctor's office.

The only recommendation I have is that you make Aria open in a new tab, instead of the current setting. The current setting completely takes over the browser window, so if you wanna use the browser at the same time as chatting with the AI, you can't do that. You have to close the conversation with the AI, which IMO is lame. It would be a lot better if the AI had a tab of its own.