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Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Re: Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Post by dikkechill »

What I find interesting is that it supports access to an external wallet on your phone. This reduces the attack surface.

Another browser that has a wallet built in is Brave [1]. But afaik this does not support access to wallets on other devices.

[1] https://brave.com/funding-your-brave-wallet/

Re: Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Post by jeena »

Back in the days I was a big Opera fan, I even bought myself free from the ads it came with in the top right. But since they abandoned their own rendering engine I literary haven't even downloaded it a single time to even test it. It's so uninteresting to see a closed source browser which just uses the open source blink engine.

Re: Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Post by elandrum »

jeena wrote: post #3

Back in the days I was a big Opera fan, I even bought myself free from the ads it came with in the top right. But since they abandoned their own rendering engine I literary haven't even downloaded it a single time to even test it. It's so uninteresting to see a closed source browser which just uses the open source blink engine.

I can understand your dissatisfaction with their choice of closed on top of open, but I’d encourage you to give it a whirl. I switched early last year because I was growing wary of Google and wanted to see if Opera was faster. Sure enough, it’s impressively fast and has all the built in things that I want. I’m quite impressed with their latest improvements and really enjoy using it. I’d be hard pressed to switch to anything else right now.

Re: Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Post by petre »

elandrum wrote: post #4
jeena wrote: post #3

Back in the days I was a big Opera fan, I even bought myself free from the ads it came with in the top right. But since they abandoned their own rendering engine I literary haven't even downloaded it a single time to even test it. It's so uninteresting to see a closed source browser which just uses the open source blink engine.

I can understand your dissatisfaction with their choice of closed on top of open, but I’d encourage you to give it a whirl. I switched early last year because I was growing wary of Google and wanted to see if Opera was faster. Sure enough, it’s impressively fast and has all the built in things that I want. I’m quite impressed with their latest improvements and really enjoy using it. I’d be hard pressed to switch to a…

I use it on mobile. It's quite nice, has an okayish ad blocker and a nice text wrap zoom feature that I enjoy and no other mobile browser has. It's fast enough but Brave is faster. Also used it on the Windows desktop before FF quantum.

Re: Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Post by primedteam »

elandrum wrote: post #4
jeena wrote: post #3

Back in the days I was a big Opera fan, I even bought myself free from the ads it came with in the top right. But since they abandoned their own rendering engine I literary haven't even downloaded it a single time to even test it. It's so uninteresting to see a closed source browser which just uses the open source blink engine.

I can understand your dissatisfaction with their choice of closed on top of open, but I’d encourage you to give it a whirl. I switched early last year because I was growing wary of Google and wanted to see if Opera was faster. Sure enough, it’s impressively fast and has all the built in things that I want. I’m quite impressed with their latest improvements and really enjoy using it. I’d be hard pressed to switch to a…

I've tried it recently. I lasted < 10 minutes. The spinner in the tabs while things load are very distracting. cnn.com causes it to start spinning every 8 seconds for about 3 seconds.

Re: Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Post by bufferoverflow »

ggm wrote: post #5

what could possibly go wrong integrating an engine capable of running arbitrary web downloaded javascript, with a wallet capable of being drained of real-world affecting value... oh, its ok, we have sandboxes

Not just sandboxes, passwords too, and 2FA.

Re: Opera delivers desktop browser with crypto wallet integration

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Post by xrd »

ggm wrote: post #5

what could possibly go wrong integrating an engine capable of running arbitrary web downloaded javascript, with a wallet capable of being drained of real-world affecting value... oh, its ok, we have sandboxes

It's really simple to take any crypto currency holdings you have and split them into multiple accounts. One of your accounts, that you enable on your mobile device, could have a small amount of currency and even if there were a JavaScript exploit that hijacked your private key, you've only lost that bit in the small account. And, you don't have to wait for the bank transfer to occur, or even create an account with a bank bureaucracy. It seems much better than the alternative, no?
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