I don't understand using a browser that is developed by a for-profit company which happens to be their only product. Because of current owners, I would never use Opera.
Firefox is pretty good guys. You should check it out. And also donate.
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Chrome is the other outlier here. Apple and Microsoft have no real reason to spy on you when you use Safari or Edge and Firefox is operated by a not-for-profit entity. Google and Opera's entire business model depend on surveilling their users.
> I remember when opera used to have an IMAP client built in and you could open up an IRC chat tab, it had so much cool stuff!
Don't really understand those two comments. You're saying it hasn't gone to shit yet but then you're describing the features from Opera 12, before Opera switched to the new Chrome-based browser they ship now without any of those features.
I was a long time Opera user back when it had all those cool features, and dropped it when it dropped them. Many of its long term users did the same and many of their internal devs left too. I'd say Opera very much went to shit in 2013.
> Mozilla is the single most toxic thing in software culture in the past fifteen years, imo.
Curious about this view; I've been a bit lost since the Opera exodus, looking for a decent alternative. Mozilla's got some problems, but they're the best I've found sofar. What's toxic about them?
Firefox is pretty good guys. You should check it out. And also donate.
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