I used to love Opera, until they dropped the Presto Engine for Chromium's and sold off the company. These days, Vivaldi is more like Opera than current Opera since the founder is the former co-founder of Opera.
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It’s a reason why I have very little interest in alternative browsers, mostly they subtract value instead of adding it, I mean if you are just a skin around Chrome what can you do?
what browser do you use? and why?
Firefox. It’s a competitive browser that isn’t Chrome. By developing software for it I keep the web free.
Safari. What I got on iOS.
Edge. Chrome-based but works better with Microsoft Narrator for screen reader testing.
Chrome. I do slum, I wrote a heart rate monitor web app that needs the Chrome-only BTLE API. What am I going to do? Learn how to write a native app for Windows and MacOS and Android and iOS or use Chrome?
BluFy. Alternative web browser for iOS probably a Chrome fork, it supports BTLE so I can do biofeedback on my iPad.
Re: Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike the Opera browser?
#13It used to be excellent but is now just Chrome à la Chinese consortium.
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#14It used to be excellent but is now just Chrome à la Chinese consortium.
can you ellaborate on "Chrome à la Chinese consortium"?
Re: Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike the Opera browser?
#15I used to love Opera, until they dropped the Presto Engine for Chromium's and sold off the company. These days, Vivaldi is more like Opera than current Opera since the founder is the former co-founder of Opera.
why do you think they dropped the Presto Engine?