The User Experience on this browser has been an absolute catastrophe. This is one of the worst User Experiences ever and I can only imagine it turns people away all the time. I don't know how the Opera Marketing Team has the gall to claim that this is a superior browsing experience to literally any other browser. I'd honestly rather use Safari and, as a developer myself, that's saying a hell of a lot. No, I'll go further, I'd rather use Edge Browser.

To summarise my experience:

• The automatic import from Chrome didn't work. Didn't bring anything over except a handful of Bookmarks (not even all of them).
• Manually importing my passwords through CSV says that it worked, and tells me how many passwords it imported, but then the Password Manager remains empty.
• To get around that I set up LastPass and installed it as an extension but (you'll see this is a theme) any time that I close my browser I have to log in again completely.
• I have the browser set up to remember my last session, but not only does it not do that, it doesn't even keep me logged in. I have to log back in to the browser every time I open it.
• The Sync options will not work, I'm asked to sign in (again) to activate sync but then when I do sign in, nothing happens.
• The Tab Islands are a nice feature but they're trumped completely by Chrome's Tab Groups which allow you to customise the colours and the text in the tab, for actual organisation. Having several randomly-coloured tab islands is not at all useful for finding what you want again later. Even just changing this colour would make it a bit more useful, but of course that's not an option.
• Workspaces would be a feasible alternative but, again, whenever I close the browser, my workspaces vanish.
• I like the built-in player but, again, it forgets me when the browser closes.
• I like the idea of having AI easily accessible from the sidebar and since I pay for ChatGPT I figured I'd use the built-in ChatGPT feature. I think you know where this is going. It doesn't work. The pop-out that opens just crashes.
• I like to be able to hover a tab and see what's on there to quickly find what I'm looking for again. Chrome does this beautifully with a little pop-out tooltip. The Opera version of tab previewing is a massive ugly modal that covers the page you're currently looking at and 9/10 just says "Preview not available"

I could honestly go on but I'll leave it there. This is a shoddy poorly-built excuse for a browser and I'm just aghast at the contrast between how they market it and the actual user experience.
I do know that it's a much better experience on PC, but to just blatantly overlook the experience for everyone on Mac is mind-blowing.

How do you all cope using it on Mac? Do you just not use any Quality-of-life browser features at all? Have you all had to hack together workarounds? I'm genuinely curious to know what people love about it, especially on this iOS where support for it is clearly the lowest possible priority.

The User Experience on this browser has been an absolute catastrophe. This is one of the worst User Experiences ever and I can only imagine it turns people away all the time. I don't know how the Opera Marketing Team has the gall to claim that this is a superior browsing experience to literally any other browser. I'd honestly rather use Safari and, as a developer myself, that's saying a hell of a lot. No, I'll go further, I'd rather use Edge Browser.

To summarise my experience:

• The automatic import from Chrome didn't work. Didn't bring anything over except a handful of Bookmarks (not even all of them).
• Manually importing my passwords through CSV says that it worked, and tells me how many passwords it imported, but then the Password Manager remains empty.
• To get around that I set up LastPass and installed it as an extension but (you'll see this is a theme) any time that I close my browser I have to log in again completely.
• I have the browser set up to remember my last session, but not only does it not do that, it doesn't even keep me logged in. I have to log back in to the browser every time I open it.
• The Sync options will not work, I'm asked to sign in (again) to activate sync but then when I do sign in, nothing happens.
• The Tab Islands are a nice feature but they're trumped completely by Chrome's Tab Groups which allow you to customise the colours and the text in the tab, for actual organisation. Having several randomly-coloured tab islands is not at all useful for finding what you want again later. Even just changing this colour would make it a bit more useful, but of course that's not an option.
• Workspaces would be a feasible alternative but, again, whenever I close the browser, my workspaces vanish.
• I like the built-in player but, again, it forgets me when the browser closes.
• I like the idea of having AI easily accessible from the sidebar and since I pay for ChatGPT I figured I'd use the built-in ChatGPT feature. I think you know where this is going. It doesn't work. The pop-out that opens just crashes.
• I like to be able to hover a tab and see what's on there to quickly find what I'm looking for again. Chrome does this beautifully with a little pop-out tooltip. The Opera version of tab previewing is a massive ugly modal that covers the page you're currently looking at and 9/10 just says "Preview not available"

I could honestly go on but I'll leave it there. This is a shoddy poorly-built excuse for a browser and I'm just aghast at the contrast between how they market it and the actual user experience.
I do know that it's a much better experience on PC, but to just blatantly overlook the experience for everyone on Mac is mind-blowing.

How do you all cope using it on Mac? Do you just not use any Quality-of-life browser features at all? Have you all had to hack together workarounds? I'm genuinely curious to know what people love about it, especially on this iOS where support for it is clearly the lowest possible priority.