Opera
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
4warn against
Jan 22, 2026first mention
Sep 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I was a big Opera fan back in the day, and it was amazing to see how well their engine scaled to all kinds of systems.”
Caveats and dissent
“The last time I liked Opera was before they switched to Chromium”
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“I used to love Opera, until they dropped the Presto Engine for Chromium's and sold off the company.”
former Opera fanon “Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike the Opera brow…”
“remove these shithole browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera etc.) from your machines”
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Who recommends it in their own words
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All comments 7
“not the Opera browser you get today, which is crap”
“The only browser I use other than Safari (which requires Tahoe for WebGPU) is Opera”
“I was a big Opera fan back in the day, and it was amazing to see how well their engine scaled to all kinds of systems.”
“The last time I liked Opera was before they switched to Chromium”
“I used to love Opera, until they dropped the Presto Engine for Chromium's and sold off the company.”
“No IE, for instance. I used Opera.”
“remove these shithole browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera etc.) from your machines”