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I fondly remember the old opera days, up until the latest presto version, 12.18. If you knew what you were doing, you were able to fully customize the entire browser, all of it's toolbars and context menus, it was incredible.
Once they switched over to the Blink engine, all of that was lost. It's entire USP gone, just like that.
I've tried Opera 2 or 3 years back, just to see what it is like, and it's just another pointless chromium based browser, offering nothing to keep me using it, and the more i see posts and ads from this company, the more I feel like I made the right choice.
I've also tried the "spiritual successor" to Opera 12, Vivaldi, but it too couldn't win me back over from Firefox.
If Firefox adopted some Vivaldi features it would be the perfect browser, as it stands Vivaldi is unusable for development, but the Tiling and stacking tabs are awesome, wish Firefox borrowed those.
Alternatively Vivaldi switching to Firefox's engine and giving us a better dev experience would be nice
vivaldi using gecko would be great! it probably would take a lot of work tho