Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

• tomjuggler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I was 100% Opera on desktop and mobile until they switched to chromium and broke everything from before. Still pissed about that, lost all my bookmarks and notes at one point.

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Opera was so good. Disable images, force custom CSS, gestures! Stuff no one else had at the time.

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  • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And the ability to switch browser engines on the fly. That was a great feature.

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    • philpo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And it has some options to interpret data following strict W3C standards. Which was incredibly helpful when learning, as it encouraged me (and a lot of others) to don’t go down the IE/Netscape and later Chrome “specialities” road. (Yes,I am that old…I still remember MS fucking FrontPage)

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      • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I remember that! Standards mode vs compatibility mode. That was a great feature, too. Opera was unique.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      User agent spoofing, tabs back when nobody had them, sidebar…

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  • wfh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    gestures!

    Still the reason that 20+ years later the second thing I install on any browser is a gestures extension (the first one is always uBlock Origin, obviously).

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Opera Corp. is Norvegian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)

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  • Chefdano3@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The browser was sold to Chinese investors though.

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• kobra@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this era of the internet was such a fun time.

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  • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suspect that we may be looking back with rose tinted glasses, but the main stream internet is pretty crap atm

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• kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Opera also was a good alternative on Symbian phones right or whatever OS Nokia used before they switched to Windows Phone, I think.

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  • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Opera mini was also great when I had very little MBs of internet traffic in my plan. Nowadays I have pretty much infinite traffic, so I haven’t used it in ages

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    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think I remember Opera Mini’s layout though I didn’t much use it. It was a great alternative especially on mobile more than a decade back.

      But yes especially after changing ownership, switching browser engines and years down the line; things have changed.

      I think I have their desktop variant a try sometime ago but didn’t find it compelling enough. I haven’t even used their Android fork. I keep using a Firefox fork only :p.

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