this era of the internet was such a fun time.
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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 week agoI beg to differ, when Opera had its own engine and wasn’t Chinese owned - back in the early '00s.
kobra@lemm.ee 1 week ago
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 week ago
I suspect that we may be looking back with rose tinted glasses, but the main stream internet is pretty crap atm
Damage@feddit.it 1 week ago
Opera was so good. Disable images, force custom CSS, gestures! Stuff no one else had at the time.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 week ago
And the ability to switch browser engines on the fly. That was a great feature.
philpo@feddit.org 1 week 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)
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I remember that! Standards mode vs compatibility mode. That was a great feature, too. Opera was unique.
Damage@feddit.it 1 week ago
User agent spoofing, tabs back when nobody had them, sidebar…
wfh@lemm.ee 1 week 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).
tomjuggler@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Opera Corp. is Norvegian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)
Chefdano3@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The browser was sold to Chinese investors though.
kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Opera also was a good alternative on Symbian phones right or whatever OS Nokia used before they switched to Windows Phone, I think.
Rinox@feddit.it 1 week 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
kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week 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.