Opera used to be a fantastic web browser, with a custom high-performance Presto rendering engine and features like tabbed windows that didn't show up in competing browsers until years later. However, the modern Opera browser is a shadow of its former self, reliant on chasing trends and meme advertising to
  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    9 months ago

    Yep. I daily drive Vivaldi on both macOS and Android.

    I love it. The sidebar is a great feature; I stash my extension icons there. The theme is highly customizable; I have mine set to something similar to the Opera dark theme.

    I don’t use the email or calendar features. The great thing about Vivaldi is that they provide a ton of power user features, but don’t shove it in your face. It’s super easy to turn off the things you don’t want and to turn on the things you do want.

    I do use UBO, but they also have a builtin ad blocker if you want to use that instead.

    The settings page is very extensive. Tons of customization. True to the Opera legacy!

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      72·
      9 months ago

      The sidebar is a great feature; I stash my extension icons there.

      That’s amazing, I didn’t know you could do that. I’ve been using Vivaldi since the alpha days and I had no clue you could drag the extensions there.