@flaviu2 Thank you very much. Do you think there is some special reason for you or even one or two more, that doesn't let you give up on Opera?

As of late I'm getting the impression that Opera is adding more and more flashy and funky features to the browser like Sonic theme in One or cats into Air.
This may appeal to some audience of course. But for me, a browser is mainly a gate to the internet and I do some heavy work with it.
So, I'd wished there were mere features to streamline productivity like the sidebar, easy files or split screen. I guess, they're maybe not that sexy to promote but actually more useful.

@SkibidiRizzlerFromOhio You're welcome. I remember from my iPhone times how desperate I felt with this issue.

@andrew84 Oh, yes I see. It probably creeped into the stable much later then.

@Opera-QA-Team

I'm sorry, but still this inconsistency in customized themes as in the former version:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/86771/opera-123/4
Not solved yet, unfortunately.

Referred to by you as (RNA-1072)
https://forums.opera.com/topic/86771/opera-123/10

@SkibidiRizzlerFromOhio You can look here for a workaround: https://forums.opera.com/topic/85312/flow-doesn-t-connect/9

@flaviu2 Thank you very much for your extensive answer. I'm not in a position already to give a thumps up, unfortunately.
I can agree to almost every point you're saying. That's what keeping me with Opera for almost 3 and a half years now. Especially when considering that every other major browser has flaws of its own.
With the Chinese ownership you nail it, actually. But as I also see China with lots of distrust, I don't think there's so much to worry about with Opera. But anyway, who asks himself who owns Alphabet or Microsoft? And at least you can check who owns Opera as they are traded publicly.
In self declared privacy circles there's a lot of fuss about Brave. But in this case you don't know who owns it and where their earnings really come from.
So, thank you very much for your detailed answer again.

@flaviu2 Thank you very much. Do you think there is some special reason for you or even one or two more, that doesn't let you give up on Opera?

I'm using Opera for almost three and a half years, but I'm always tempted to change to another browser. Only to see that each of them has some flaw.

But if you compare Opera to its competitors, you'll likely see that,

Brave and Firefox have more privacy

Edge has almost every feature that Opera has and some others more

Vivaldi is way more customizable

Edge's Copilot seems to be better integrated than Aria and often delivers better results

Brave's and Chrome's interface is cleaner

Opera's background isn't without some issues, doesn't make it the more David against Goliath type of company it once was

If it were not for Chrome's extensive data collection, Edge's nagging into the MS eco-system, Vivaldi's sluggishness, Brave's shady bitcoin and right-wing libertarian background and Firefox's dwindling market share and compatibility issues, I'd easily choose one of those.

If you were to convince me to stay with Opera for reasons that makes it stand out, what would you point to?

@burnout426 Oh, thank you, that makes sense of course.

@DerSchlingel What probably hast happened here:

• My actual setting is shown as being: "allow all third party cookies"

• Factually the setting seems to be" "don't allow third party cookies" as retrieved from my synched preferences.

• There's no option to change the setting