Opera offers an interesting alternative to the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers, but its recent Linux release leaves some room for improvement. Opera previously enjoyed a reputation as the go-to browser of choice for mobile environments. However, Opera Software, the developer, ignored Linux users for quite a long while until now. Opera’s Version 12.16 is a very usable release — but it is not without drawbacks.
Perhaps its biggest accomplishment is creating a library of Firefox-like extensions.
Yes, the lack of a functional Xmarks plugin kept me from switching to (or even making much use of) Opera. Granted, Xmarks became so unreliable (trashing and corrupting bookmarks, then syncing the trashed entries across the rest of my browsers), so I could have in theory gone to Opera once the Firefox developers became obsessed with making FF flashy and making it less functional, and became less concerned with making it usable and *stable*. However, Opera seemed even less stable than FF, so I'm stuck with the likes of Google Chrome.
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Opera Sings for Linux Users, With Just a Few Sour Notes
Posted by: Jack M. Germain September 18, 2014 07:05 PMOpera offers an interesting alternative to the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers, but its recent Linux release leaves some room for improvement. Opera previously enjoyed a reputation as the go-to browser of choice for mobile environments. However, Opera Software, the developer, ignored Linux users for quite a long while until now. Opera’s Version 12.16 is a very usable release — but it is not without drawbacks.
Perhaps its biggest accomplishment is creating a library of Firefox-like extensions.