Opera used to be a fantastic web browser, with a custom high-performance Presto rendering engine and features like tabbed windows that didn't show up in competing browsers until years later. However, the modern Opera browser is a shadow of its former self, reliant on chasing trends and meme advertising to
    • Defaced@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Tried using Vivaldi at one point and I really liked it but it was noticeably slower than both Firefox and chrome even though it’s just another chromium fork. I’ve since switched back to Firefox and haven’t looked back.

      • ptrknvk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        It is very features-heavy, but the downside of that is that it takes more resources.

      • Fushi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        5 months ago

        firefox is slower for me lmao, still use it but compared to vivaldi, it uses more cpu and ram somehow

    • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Actually after Opera switched engine from Presto to Blink and become another Chromium-based browser I was a bit lost, and switched between different browsers while never really had that “good connection” I had with Opera, but I eventually switched to Firefox and I don’t really see any other alternative right now. It just works, and supports free and open web.