Haha Vivaldi is great, too! I stopped using Opera back when they first made the leap to Chromium and when I heard Vivaldi was the original creators trying to bring back the original Opera feel, I gave it a go. I don't use it as much as I should but it's definitely a quality browser!
nightcraw1er.488: What does a “gaming browser” do then exactly? I have yet to find a game which needs a browser to play?
It just has features that appeal to gamers, such as RGB-styled theme customization, resource limiters, a gaming center sort of home page (though you don't have to use it), built-in Twitch integration, etc. There are a lot of other cool features. If you don't regularly have your browser open while gaming, it may not be quite as useful but I find it to be very helpful as you can have it take up less RAM and resources than Chrome, making it ideal to run while playing games.
Timbroski: I haven't used the new Opera, but I am using the new Edge which is Chromium based. It seems to be pretty light, not as resource heavy as Chrome, probably not as light as others though idk.
I used Firefox off and on for years, but it will randomly break something on my browser every few updates, and I got tired of it. It also has (had?) severe issues loading Twitch channels and would pixelate them very early into the stream.
Last time I used Opera I set up my emails with it, and then magically within 2 days, all my email addresses started getting spam which didn't go away till I got rid of Opera.
It might be a coincidence, but I don't get inundated with spam using the new Edge and occasionally Chrome as needed.
I stopped using Opera after they switched to Chromium, but they've really improved it in recent years. As for the spam emails, I think that had to have been a coincidence as I've had my email linked to Opera for years and never had trouble with that. I'm not saying it didn't happen to you or anything, but I definitely didn't experience that myself.
Vendor-Lazarus: Almost all modern browsers use Google/Chrome's Blink engine today.
Which includes Opera, Edge, Brave, etc.
Except for Firefox (Gecko) and Pale Moon (Goanna)..and some Chinese browsers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#Blink-based I mainly use Pale Moon, and sometimes TOR (firefox-based), and when I wanted another browser (just to have at hand) I tried Iridium (Blink), and it wouldn't even work. It just opened as some sort of new-fangled App with just a white blank ..window. Not even a proper window, with a title section (which is why I use the term App).
One of the major benefits of Firefox is how it doesn't use Chromium. However, for me, Firefox has been up and down over the years. It used to be my main browser until about 2014/2015, then I switched to Chrome as my main and used it until I decided to give Opera GX a go and, at least for now, GX will remain my primary browser on my PC. I still use Firefox on my laptop, though.
fr33kSh0w2012: It has twitch and Discord integrated right into the browser also has a tab with game deals and freebies!
I don't use Twitch or Discord as much as the average gamer but it's a cool option to have and I definitely like the GX Center tab for keeping an eye on deals and free stuff. I use it in combo with the threads here on GOG to ensure I'm always getting the best gaming deals and never missing out on free games!
Niggles: The real Opera finished after version 12.xx. Anything afterwards -- people went to using Vivaldi
Yeah, that's when I stopped using Opera back in the day. Vivaldi is great, I should use it more often, honestly. That being said, modern Opera is actually very solid and quite useful. I like the fact that even the standard Opera has a lot of built-in features that usually require some sort of addon/extension in other browsers, thus cutting down on bloat.