I really really really liked Opera and used it from 2000~2013 IIRC but all that nonsense made me migrate to Chrome. An excellent browser it was that turned to something that really had no point existing... one could as well go to chrome and call it a day.
I'll check Vivaldi but it must be really good to win me over again

Yeah I was a diehard ... have been using Opera almost exclusively since version 2 or 3. I skipped 15-2x and clung to 12.16 for as long as I could. I don't know what the hell they were thinking in there.

Honestly the recent ones (now running 34 on my Macbook) go pretty well for what they are, but what's been killing me is the lack of ability to organize bookmarks. I mean you can't even sort them by name... You can import a file with sub-sub-folders but Opera itself can't use them or let you edit them in any way. And it's not possible to move one folder into another or even "select all" and move/delete a bunch at once.

There are pretty basic browser features , how the hell did they screw this up??

One of the best "features" of newer Opera builds was a guy named Ruarí who worked on the Linux port and was *super* helpful responding to bug reports, comments, UI issues, etc. Guess what? He works for Vivaldi now!

keropi wrote:

I really really really liked Opera and used it from 2000~2013 IIRC but all that nonsense made me migrate to Chrome. An excellent browser it was that turned to something that really had no point existing... one could as well go to chrome and call it a day.
I'll check Vivaldi but it must be really good to win me over again

I actually made the same move, except that it turned out I liked Chrome even less, so went back to Opera (which is very similar to Chrome under the hood, but at least it's GUI isn't so nasty at times. Mostly use Chrome for Google drive these days and not even regularly).

I've been a regular Opera user for many years, having gone there from Firefox, which was becoming dreadfully resource-hungry. I don't use just 1 browser though, it's more like I use em for different tasks.

Sure interested in giving Vivaldi a try, it kinda slipped my mind after I had thought about it some months ago.

still using opera 12.15
I also use cyberfox because its portable