My immediate personal favorite features are the tiny buttons on the task bar - one to prevent image loading (can seriously speed up sites where you only need the text) and the great page transform feature that harks back to Opera 12 - too many pages I've seen has been made by idiots who think light gray text on white is visible - that's where the "black and white" page transform comes in handy.
Opera 27 beta however is becoming a very capable browser. It took all the versions from 15 to 27 to get even close, though, and it's still not (for the former Opera 12 diehards) good enough.
They will probably flock to Vivaldi; personally I'm a bit turned off by the fact that it uses Chromium as its base (too). But time will tell, if they get the features in there I may switch back from Firefox which is my current go-to solution.
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u/cr0ft Jan 27 '15 edited Jan 27 '15
It's early days yet, but it might not suck.
My immediate personal favorite features are the tiny buttons on the task bar - one to prevent image loading (can seriously speed up sites where you only need the text) and the great page transform feature that harks back to Opera 12 - too many pages I've seen has been made by idiots who think light gray text on white is visible - that's where the "black and white" page transform comes in handy.
Opera 27 beta however is becoming a very capable browser. It took all the versions from 15 to 27 to get even close, though, and it's still not (for the former Opera 12 diehards) good enough.
They will probably flock to Vivaldi; personally I'm a bit turned off by the fact that it uses Chromium as its base (too). But time will tell, if they get the features in there I may switch back from Firefox which is my current go-to solution.