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According to its privacy policy, Opera collects da...

Comment by AB6hyF0
about Opera · May 2020 · Helpful Not helpful 7 Helpful Report as spam

"According to its privacy policy, Opera collects data on its users, including names, IP addresses and search terms. It also reserves the right to share that data with third-party applications but doesn’t give specifics."

But what you should fear more is the Opera VPN.

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Comment by Cyberia
about Opera · Nov 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 6 Helpful Report as spam

It used to be perfect. It was the perfect web browser before switching to chromium. But now it's just yet another random fork.

[Edited by Cyberia, November 05]

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reinardus80 · Feb 2020

Yes. I definitly agree with you, coz I use Opera since v4.xx (2003). And I surely recognize the differences before and after chomium engine.


Comment by judithmc426
about Opera · Sep 2019 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

One of the best in browsers field

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Comment by alexanderdani95213
about Opera · Aug 2019 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

When this problem will be fixed maybe I'll switch to it, but now it's a bit annoying :/

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crean23 · Apr 2020

I don't have any problem with Opera. I like to use the VPN.

[Edited by crean23, April 02]


Comment by sveinarnegroennevik
about Opera · Jul 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It is the fastest browser, safe and the best organized.

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Comment by Guest
about Opera · Apr 2017 · Report as spam

It's the fastest loading browser around with awesome built-in features such as Opera Tubo, Feed Reader, VPN, battery saver, speed dail and full-screen mode

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Why import for bookmarks is disabled?

Comment by Danilo_Venom
about Opera · Feb 2014 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

I tried Opera for a couple of days and I have to say it's very fast, but I don't know why import for bookmarks is disabled.

When this problem will be fixed maybe I'll switch to it, but now it's a bit annoying :/

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OlaMohammad · Feb 2014

Yes , it's grayed .
Maybe they will fix it in the next release , don't forget to tell Opera about this bug .

rluik · Mar 2014

This menu item is grayed out because it was built only for Opera 12.16 -> 15+ migration.

They don't have a working bookmark importer to import from other browsers at the moment, but you can use workarounds like importing to another Chromium-based browser and copy the Bookmarks file manually from the Chromium profile to Opera profile or the Small XMarks iconXMarks extension from the Chrome Web Store.

Danilo_Venom · Mar 2014

I copied the Bookmarks file manually from Chrome successfully! Thank you very much :D


Comment by Rajliv
about Opera · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Great news from Opera:

Opera 11 will support extensions/plug-ins:
http://lifehacker.com/5669530/opera-11-alpha-brings-extensions-to-the-speedy-browser

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I couldn't really figure out what made Opera so great.

Comment by OmgItsTheSmartGuy
about Opera and Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

I used Opera for about 20 minutes one time, and I couldn't really figure out what made Opera so great. It didn't feel noticeably snappier than Chrome or even FF, and I didn't find any particularly interesting features, either. Of course, 20 minutes isn't enough time to truly judge a browser, but I'm still sticking with FF for now.

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LemonJuiceInMyEye · Mar 2012

I know this is a few years late but all of the features are built into Opera:
-Mail Client
-Bit torrent client
-Opera Turbo for slow connections
-Tab stacking
-Mouse gestures
-It can read web pages to you
-Session manager (save and reuse groups of tabs)
-Tab thumbnails/Tab pull down
-Content blocking (adblock)
-Very fast download manager
-RSS reader
-Opera link (syncs bookmarks, settings history across all of you Opera installs, including mobile)
-Opera Unite ( great for sharing large files with family)
-Private browsing integrated into the main browser window, not a seperate one
-Widgets
-a basic note taking program
-IRC client

Plus it has the best RAM and CPU usage when you have a tonne of tabs open all day and all of the cool features that are considered 'standard' for a good browser were invented by Opera.
You should read their Wikipedia article, it's great!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_ (web_browser)

Let me know what you think!

xobej · Sep 2019

I think that I simply can´t trust a company based in china, according to wikipedia is owned by Beijing Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. (Zhou Yahui) (48%)
Qifei International Development Co. Limited (Qihoo 360) (27.5%)
Keeneyes Future Holdings Inc (Zhou Yahui) (19.5%).

It may be a prejudice, and I don´t know whether these companies are directly linked to the state, but I suppose you can´t be in business there without "being good" and allowing access to your servers to Chinese state institutions. Plus if I take in account China is an country, where they have the grate firewall... (and also the Opera Turbo, mentiond by LemonJuiceInMyEye, operates over their servers, where some preprocessing is done) I simply don´t trust this company. (even the fact, that they provide a free VPN seems really weird to me). But never mind, It all just may be my prejudices, although there is some probability to them. I think I´ll just stay with firefox, that is open software (and maybe I´ll read the source one day).


Comment by em4020
about Opera and Mozilla Firefox, XMarks · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Opera is not applicable for me without XMarks:

For me the Firefox Add-On Xmarks (available also for Internet Explorer) is indispensable for Bookmark administration.
The fact, that XMarks (still) is not available for Opera, is for me a reason not to use Opera.

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Opera is a good browser, but I find Firefox to be better.

Comment by Aaron
about Opera and Mozilla Firefox · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It is a good browser, but I find Firefox to be better. The thing I liked most about Opera was the quickpane that had like 9 webpages that you use a lot in, but you can get a Firefox plugin that does the same thing.

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The fastest and safest browser available for Windows today.

Comment by savemejames
about Opera · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Opera has been benchmarked to be the fastest and safest browser available for Windows today. With opera 10 coming out, it will be 35% quicker than opera 9.64.

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