[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.

[thunderbong]

I'm still using Opera 12! I use it with Javascript disabled and it works flawlessly as it always did. Just to reply here I decided to count the number of tabs I've got opened. I counted 60! I should just put them in the 'Read Later' list I guess!

Wikipedia says Opera 15 with the Blink engine came out on 28 May 2013 [0]. So, it's still chugging along after 5 years of the switch. Which in the web world is an eternity I suppose.

The tab navigation, the mouse gestures, the keyboard based navigation on the page, the keyboard shortcuts, tab stacks, customized searches with keywords, just too many features to count. And all without a single add-on.

Vivaldi does a lot of these things right as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#History

[elandrum]

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.

[petre]

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.

[primedteam]

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.