[al_borland]

Opera has leaned into this for decades. They have a long history of innovating in the browser space. I suppose that doesn’t happen without some bloat along the way. Not every idea is going to be a winner.

20 years ago, Opera had an email client built into the browser, for example.

I used Opera for quite a while back then, but eventually it became too much bloat, and I ended up switching to Phoenix (now Firefox) when it came out. I remember having a really hard time losing the mouse actions from Opera after the switch.

[asadotzler]

Opera copied Netscape which had email three years earlier (June '97 compared to Opera's June 2000) when groupware was still a thing in the 90s. Everyone except Opera realized the bundling of email and calendar and chat and more was wrong for most folks by around 2003 and pared back following Firefox and Safari to streamlined interfaces with only the most important features and leaving everything else to extensions. Opera (and MyIE/Maxthon) doubled down on bundling features until it was an unsustainable monstrosity and when that became clear the board kicked out the founder and not long after the CTO and inventor of CSS left and the Chinese now own it so it's just another Chromium skin.