Faster and better browsing – Welcome Opera 41

Wow, Opera has a built-in video pop-out feature. That&#x27;s very nice. I wrote a script to do that in X11 a while ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;myfreeweb&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;32c9cfd8d5e0a3a2c42c929f10cee9edea0e42fb&#x2F;x11&#x2F;floatyoutube" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;myfreeweb&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;32c9cfd8d5e0a3a2c...</a> after I saw a Mac app that does this.

Good to know, but nothing to make a fuss about: Looking at the video, it seems that they are now simply loading the currently open tab before the others (starting by the ones adjacent to it) instead of loading all tabs at once. Other browsers have had this for a while

The only thing i want from opera now is open source, I enjoyed opera for years now, and it is my favorite one by far,<p>But i am a little concerned about it is not opensource, witch make forefox a better choice for privacity...

I wish Chrome would adopt Vivaldi&#x27;s and Opera&#x27;s feature to not close the window if you&#x27;re closing the last tab. This works nicely in Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi, and I always accidentally close Chrome. I&#x27;ve seen Chrome extensions for this, but they don&#x27;t do this properly and take up considerable memory for something that should be a core feature.

Now if only they&#x27;d deliver on the marketing talk about actually getting Opera v12 features into Chromera, or at least do the human thing of opening up the source of v12.<p>Till then, quite a few people will stick with v12 as main browser.<p>Also, beware: The browser part of the Opera company was sold to chinese malware producer Qihoo 360, after they failed to buy the entire company.

I use Chrome , Firefox , Opera all for different reason. The one that I find most appealing even though I am a big chrome fan is Opera.Opera&#x27;s inbuilt ad-blocker is pretty decent and combine that with the great usable bookmarking engine I find it very usable on 2 - 24 inch screens.<p>Firefox used to be great but rendering webpages just feels faster on Chrome&#x2F;Opera. Opera has great potential to become a great browser as long as it focuses on adblocking and security by default.

A few months ago i stumbled upon the new Opera, in search of battery saving on my Macbook Pro. My battery lasts longer than when using Chrome, because of the built in power saving. The VPN addition is nice to, for testing purposes or just surfing safely. The only problem i have with Opera for now is that i&#x27;m not able to use Chrome plugins.. Not everything is available on Opera.

I had my Ubuntu 14.04 freezing a lot when Chrome is launched. I switched to Opera and no more freezes.<p>Beside, living in a sub-African nation, Opera VPN helps me access some restricted shows.<p>I use Firefox for downloading stuffs over the net : the DownthemAll extension is what makes me use Firefox. Nothing else.

I really wish I could use Opera, but without Tab Overflow, having more then 15 tabs means the tabs are so small, and you cant read the title of the Tab. This is espeically important when i have multiple Tabs open on the same site, and therefore same site icon showing.<p>Mouse Traveling to Tab List and select is just annoying. When you know the Tab you want is somewhere in here right next to it.<p>I really want to use Opera, it is so much faster, but for power ( many Tabs ) users It seems the only choice right now, ( and for the past years ) is only Firefox.

...and mouse gestures still aren&#x27;t customizable again (they already had this long, long ago).

I haven&#x27;t used Opera for a long, long time.<p>How does it stack up currently against Chrome?<p>Anyone here using it as their main browser?

Just installed it! Visibly faster for me, they seem to have done good work in this release.

Not bothering to read - is it still a reskin of Chrome and thus not Opera? Or are they moving back to an updated Presto engine? Because if not, SeaMonkey remains my primary browser; since Opera 12 is &quot;unsafe&quot;.

I&#x27;m happy with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seamonkey-project.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seamonkey-project.org&#x2F;</a>

I can&#x27;t find the VPN option in Settings, even when I search... but the help page says it should be available under Privacy and Security..

I really miss the tab stacking feature, but also the integrated email and rss readers. :&#x27;(

Is Opera still running webkit, or did they switch to something else in the past few years?

Cold start Opera 40 - 63 seconds<p>Cold start Opera 41 - 8 seconds<p>Both values are so much slower than anything recent by Firefox or Chrome..? Who waits over a minute for their browser to start?

I hate to sound mean, but Opera feels somewhere between the Moller Skycar and a Dyson Hairdryer.<p>To be fair:<p>Chrome is fast and adopts tech fairly quickly but kills your battery and your privacy.<p>Firefox is private and supports new things, but wastes your time.<p>Safari is battery-efficient, but waste your time and tech lags.<p>(IE is shit.)<p>---<p>Conclusion: Pick your poison for the appropriate task and time.

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They finally got rid of the 1px space above tabs. They also logged me in on Reddit instantly upon new install, which is, at least, kinda odd as I never gave &#x27;em permission to harvest my Firefox data.<p>So uninstalling.

62 seconds to start my browser if I had too many tabs opened before previously? Why is that even saved between launches by default then? It takes less than that amount of time to switch to chrome

86% faster when starting up with 42 tabs open. I&#x27;d guarantee 99% of those people with 42 tabs open after startup immediately Close 41 of them.