Maybe apple will re-launch safari on windows, now that google is being a dickhead.
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It was a sad day when Opera dropped presto.
We wanted HTML as complex as Adobe Flash. When we got it, the standard became so complex no way smaller players that didn't dedicate massive resources to keeping up could possibly keep up.
There was just no way to keep presto up to date with the ever evolving web without a massive new source of income for Opera.
And yet it is missing tons of electron apps.
There’s also Arc for Mac. Nice but still too chromeish for me. Thank god there’s Safari
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Am I crazy for using Opera? I switched from chrome 3 years ago and have enjoyed everything about Opera even their "gamer" browser OperaGX is just a great experience.
The company's history is not that great, they've done some shady shit before. Vivaldi is where the original opera folks are at now.
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I haven't used Opera in a long time, but I used it heavily 20 years ago. Back then you had to pay for it or there was a big ad banner on the toolbar.
It certainly wasn't always Chromium based, Chrome didn't come along until 2009 or something. Not sure when that change happened.
If I had to go back to that job I was doing (Internet Help desk) again, I'd consider Opera again. It was fast at navigating an intranet site where all the images were cached locally, but the killer feature for me was the back/forward. If you went back, all the stuff you typed in the form was still there. So you could resubmit it if the session had timed out or there was an issue.
I still use mouse gestures (an Opera thing) via extensions with whatever browser I have used since.
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