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Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F »

hellotomyrars wrote: post #3

I really loved Opera before it became chromium based but I do still like opera. They've integrated a lot of nice features which makes it a more compelling offering than chrome without any additional add-ons. I also think that setting resource limits for the browser is a good feature. I do not see why this needs to be broken out as a separate browser for #Gamers though. I guess it might help them gain market share bec…

Their business model is/was selling users' data. I met several sales teams at Opera back in the 2010s while I worked with one of the world biggest smartphone seller (i.e we chose which app to preinstall on zillions Android devices). They had no shame explaining in details how we and our partners data could use the data to profit against their very own users. How could one imagine using their product after such cynical presentation? I wish this was better known.

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by ngold »

wsc981 wrote: post #30
kstenerud wrote: post #23

I don't quite get what this is... Is it a gaming platform like steam? They don't list any of the games you can play on it. There are very few details on this page. The download link just grabs an .exe file, so I can't test it because I'm not running Windows.

Seems the main point of this browser is that it limits the memory and cpu cycles, so more memory and cpu cycles are available for games. I guess it can be nice. When I use Safari, it seems some sites can bring my Mac down to its knees occasionally. Especially back when my Mac still had only 8 GB RAM, though recently I upgraded to 24 GB and I don't have many of these issues anymore.

Found a workstation for a $179 with 96gb of ram and a quadro card. King of pci 2.

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by monadic2 »

wsc981 wrote: post #30
kstenerud wrote: post #23

I don't quite get what this is... Is it a gaming platform like steam? They don't list any of the games you can play on it. There are very few details on this page. The download link just grabs an .exe file, so I can't test it because I'm not running Windows.

Seems the main point of this browser is that it limits the memory and cpu cycles, so more memory and cpu cycles are available for games. I guess it can be nice. When I use Safari, it seems some sites can bring my Mac down to its knees occasionally. Especially back when my Mac still had only 8 GB RAM, though recently I upgraded to 24 GB and I don't have many of these issues anymore.

Hell, I've been asking this for years for my development machine, especially running a bunch of heavy apps (like slack) through the browser.

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by Sholmesy »

shadeslayer_ wrote: post #28

Unrelated, but it's borderline frustrating how used to I have gotten to the Chrome ecosystem by now - to the point that the mere thought of switching to any other browser makes me queasy. I tried Brave for a couple weeks but they didn't support DRM videos, so back I went to Chrome.

FYI; Brave does support DRM videos, you just need to enable it. There's a setting section for Widevine in the browser settings.

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by Sholmesy »

abc-xyz wrote: post #20

Qihoo 360, the Chinese company that brought Opera, recently showed the world why you should never trust Chinese hardware and software. On the outside a browser seem harmless, but Qihoo 360, Alibaba, Tencent and all the other Chinese companies that operate popular browsers, kindly showed the world what they’re capable of when they decided to make the 966 GitHub repo inaccessible to everyone using the Chinese browsers…

Not sure why you are being downvoted, this is interesting at least.

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

ngold wrote: post #33
wsc981 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems the main point of this browser is that it limits the memory and cpu cycles, so more memory and cpu cycles are available for games. I guess it can be nice. When I use Safari, it seems some sites can bring my Mac down to its knees occasionally. Especially back when my Mac still had only 8 GB RAM, though recently I upgraded to 24 GB and I don't have many of these issues anymore.

Found a workstation for a $179 with 96gb of ram and a quadro card. King of pci 2.

Linky?

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by ignoramous »

Klinky wrote: post #5
hellotomyrars wrote: post #3

I really loved Opera before it became chromium based but I do still like opera. They've integrated a lot of nice features which makes it a more compelling offering than chrome without any additional add-ons. I also think that setting resource limits for the browser is a good feature. I do not see why this needs to be broken out as a separate browser for #Gamers though. I guess it might help them gain market share bec…

You might check out Vivaldi, created by one of the founders of Opera Software. Has a ton of UI customization options built-in. https://vivaldi.com/

What's their business model? Got to say, the browser looks pretty slick.

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by popeathlete »

ignoramous wrote: post #38
Klinky wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might check out Vivaldi, created by one of the founders of Opera Software. Has a ton of UI customization options built-in. https://vivaldi.com/

What's their business model? Got to say, the browser looks pretty slick.

It's a great browser, as customizable as you'd expect a spiritual successor to Opera to be. Unfortunately you largely have to take their word when it comes to privacy, but they seem trustworthy enough.

Re: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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Post by Shorel »

esprehn wrote: post #19
hellotomyrars wrote: post #3

I really loved Opera before it became chromium based but I do still like opera. They've integrated a lot of nice features which makes it a more compelling offering than chrome without any additional add-ons. I also think that setting resource limits for the browser is a good feature. I do not see why this needs to be broken out as a separate browser for #Gamers though. I guess it might help them gain market share bec…

Fwiw many of the Opera engineers who worked on Presto moved over to work on Chromium and have done amazing work improving performance, standards compliance, and other cool web features. The browser itself might not live on but the expertise does.

Really?

I read somewhere they laid of a huge part of the C++ team back in the day, when they switched to Chromium.

So that "many" you mention is what, 5%, 20%, 50% of the original Presto team?

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