Opera browser tries to make sweet music for the ears of Chromebook users Norwegian web developer Opera has created a version of its software optimised for Google’s ChromeOS. The company claims the release is “the world’s first alternative browser optimized for Chromebooks”. The announcement of the browser doesn’t really elaborate on that claim, other than to say the application “… was built based …
Switched back to Opera a year (or maybe two, how time flies) ago.
Then discovered Opera GX, which is geared at gaming but even if you're not a gamer is an even smoother and more pleasurable browsing experience than regular opera.
I find it hard to pinpoint why this is the case ...
But opera certainly has stolen my desktop
Now maybe I should look into this synch-ing of opera settings across all my browsers and desktops :)
... thinking back to the late 90s/early 2000s - Microsoft got in a lot of trouble for bundling IE with Windows, ending up with them having to (among other things) offer users a choice of which browser to install upon first run.
So how is it that Chromebooks do not have the same requirement? Is it just that there are no other browsers out there until now, is it "one rule for them"... or has the internet simply forgotten (or is still too busy ranting about Microsoft)?
I'll admit, I've never used a Chromebook, so I'm in the dark here - genuine ignorance on my part. Deliberate too, as even if they were the best machines on the planet, no amazing functionality or user experience on the part of the hardware/software can overcome Google's reputation in my eyes. Only reason I'm stil on Windows is that I've yet to successfully get a Linux install on a machine...
I think I agree entirely with everything you say.
Including (and I realise this is inflammatory on this site) the frustration with getting (your particular flavour of) Linux to install and the frankly disappointing and borderline hostile experience when it does.
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Really? There's a brilliant idea, storing your money in the same piece of software that is connected to the internet all day long. Which we must then assume has zero vulnerabilities and will remain vuln free forever, because one single missed edge case in the code resulting in your wallet being nabbed is a small risk not worth worrying about?
And such a feature will not in any way make this an attractive target for the ne'er-do-wells? I suppose the only upside is the fact that hardly anyone will use it, but that's just a forlorn hope of security by obscurity.
The only exist in the optional sidebar. I have a few distant friends who use Facebook and having the messenger in the sidebar is really useful. Opera GX has Twitch in the sidebar and i'm seriously considering giving GX a go just for that. I've used Opera for about 15 years now and having a built in adblocker and VPN is really quite useful, the VPN is about as basic as it gets but it works for most of what I need one for (watching region locked Youtube videos posted to Reddit mostly) I'm sure people who actually need a VPN would find it lacking in features though.
I was recently troubleshooting some obscure bug in a web interface and that involved trying different browsers. At the end of the Opera's installation process I saw the mouse cursor move by itself, launch Windows Settings and navigate them to set Opera as the default browser. I kid you not. Luckily that was a VM so l just nuked the snapshot from the orbit. After seeing this crap Opera is now firmly on my shit list till I kick the bucket.
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