Best posts made by redwolftrash

i made the horrific mistake of closing my computer because i was going to sleep. then i remembered i needed to finish doing something, and opened my computer to see it shut down and restarted itself without me asking it to...and now this monstrosity of a browser is on my computer, when i had something that worked perfectly well and wasn't an eyesore like opera GX is (i'm a gamer, but i can't stand how stupid opera GX looks. it reeks of wannabe hacker...and don't get me started on that annoying typing sound).

to say the homogenous, "sleek" (in the company's attempt to look futuristic they instead look cheap and unoriginal like the countless companies that have tried to rebrand from "design everyone was fine with" to "disgusting clunky mess with boxes and curved corners around everything"), soulless corporatization of all website UI into godawful spacing, unused empty space because "why not", and unnecessary sectioning and boxes around literally everything is a plague on the internet is the understatement of the century.

also, that startup window and noise is so corny. i thought we left that concept behind with windows XP? i never close the browser anyway, so it seems useless to add something a majority of users won't see unless they decide "hey, let me give my poor computer a break".

nobody asked for this UI redesign. in general, there seems to be this misconception at companies that people somehow appreciate having a website or browser or app they have no issues using (and by extension, no issues with the appearance of) being altered with no warning or requests for feedback or alterations beforehand, especially when this change doesn't appear to be reversible for people who -- shocker -- don't like this repulsive design.

if you want to roll out new features, it's infinitely easier to make them experimental and then add them as fully fledged options once they've been finalized (see: all the financial things i disabled because i'd never trust a browser with my financial information and all the crypto things i disabled because it's crypto).

i also love how they finally added tab grouping, but only for tabs that are opened from one another (and of course the browser was too stupid to determine whether i had any tabs that would fit this criteria). i don't use the workspace feature because to be frank i forget it exists 9 times out of 10. the forgettability of this feature once led me to believing i had accidentally wiped out all of my pinned and open tabs in a session, so i started anew, only to find my original workspace later on.

i'm going to hope someone releases some sort of extension on tampermonkey or the extensions market to rectify the multiple awful, desultory looking design choices like people did when tumblr tried to twittify their dashboard.

unfortunately, i don't know if i can ever find another browser that'll satisfy my requirements for one other than opera (i only switched to opera in the first place because its coding is based off of chrome's, so i knew i'd be familiar with it, and chrome was so ridiculously laggy i couldn't even play music and play a video game at the same time with the youtube tab playing music being the only tab open).

@jcmlny after the initial post i made under this thread, i downloaded and set up vivaldi. i've been using it for roughly 2 weeks, and i had no complaints (in fact, it has a lot of features opera doesn't have that i like, like an easy zoom in + zoom out bar and tab stacking that isn't a massive headache to use)...until a few hours ago.

i don't know how much the opera streamlining stuff for gaming is supposed to help (or if it helps at all) since my computer's so awful i always get lag spikes regardless of what i'm playing, but the difference on vivaldi in regards to playing on roblox has been horrific.

250 ping, can't seem to be on call and play without lag every 5 seconds, and as a result i'm miserable during what should've been a fun play session with a friend. i'm trying to ask for help while my game's running smoothly and my mic ended up not working properly for god knows what reason (one of our mics always stops working during our calls), and once it got fixed and i could hear my friend, my game was so noticeably laggy that i had to turn on the profiler stats option in settings.

the lag made it so i couldn't run from any threats in the game, and i proceeded to lose hundreds of in-game dollars' worth of items to both antagonistic players and NPCs i was outrunning just fine beforehand.

at this point, i just want whatever will give me the least amount of headaches. i think i'm going to figure out how to get a version of pre-opera one opera with none of the stupid AI or bloatware features these newer versions have and the ability to update itself removed. vivaldi's nice, but i switched to opera in the first place solely because i couldn't play music and play a roblox game without the browser crashing, while i could on opera.