Not that im having any problems with firefox, but opera feels nicer, looks really nice, more abilities and the built in AI is cool, but would any one recommend this switch? is Opera heavier than firefox cpu wise? CPU matters a lot for me, so hows Opera browser?

I've been using opera for years now but I dislike it more and more as time goes on due to changes, ads, and other stuff

The problem is, I've grown terribly accustomed to opera's quality-of-life features
Most of its stuff I don't care about, especially the AI, but the built-in messenger apps, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and especially the workspaces!!!, those I can't live without.

Any other browser that has similar features, either native or with add-ons? I already use the Brave browser for youtube btw

To preface this, I love opera and have been using it (or various iterations on it) everywhere. The interface is so modern and slick, and I especially love the tab stacking feature. I have Opera on windows desktop, mobile, and everything in between. But now... let me get to the bad part.

The browser on my Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH6 has been non-functional since last week.

Almost every time i open it, it loads for a couple of seconds, then freezes completely. No spinning tab bars, and I can't click on anything (it doesn't even highlight). The windows is just frozen. Strangest of all, windows itself doesn't register that the app has stopped working and there's no error dialog box that pops up. It freezes every time i try to access settings, update, or search something. Some windows buffer fine, but certain things seem to trigger the stoppage.

I have gotten it to run for a maximum of 5 minutes before it freezes. It's clearly not a computer issue since other browsers work fine and I have 32 GB RAM and a 2021 Ryzen 5 CPU, and 10 GB free storage. I thought at first the problem was too many tabs, but now it recurs with none.

And it can't be closed as well. I have to open task manager to get it to close and even there I can see that it's using all 24 GB of my ram and a fair share of my CPU as well, which is strange since i've done a clean reinstall of the app w and w/o user data and have tried launching it with only 1 tab open. Doesn't matter. It just freezes.

It has gotten so bad that I just switched to Vivaldi in anger.

Does anyone else have this issue?