i quit with FF long ago. Plug-ins are nice, but take a long time to load and constant updating.

I use Opera, Chrome and IE. (I'm on opera right now! v 22.0.1471.50 -- I think that's latest)

And it's not a redone Chrome. When you type in the opening google text box in Chrome, it auto-opens google.com and autocompletes what you're typing. It's terribly annoying.

Opera is nice, smooth sailing.

Well it depends on what plug-ins are you using. PaleMoon takes about 250 MB for me when runing with few tabs opened. Plus if you have plug-ins like NoScript, AdblockEdge, Ghostery etc. most of the pages will load faster since you block a lot of useless stuff.

Sadly, as mentioned above, Opera dropped their own browser engine and switched over to Chromium for the current iterations dropping much of the specific and unique features Opera had in the process. The Linux version you installed is still the old opera - the last presto version released - and, sadly, hasn't seen any updates since that switch to Chromium in May 2013. Up to now Linux hasn't seen a release of the 'new' Opera, a year and three months into development. It's supposed to come, but that promise has been made ages ago with little process.

I.e. you are running a way out of date browser, with all the disadvantages that brings, if you use the Linux version of Opera. Because all of that (and that they spliced of and dropped development of Opera's internal mail client) I've switched over to Firefox / Thunderbird after sticking with (and loving) Opera since the mid 90s ... it definitely was a great alternative, but it's unclear where the journey will go (though I fear it'll never be quite the same innovative, different and highly customizable browser it used to be).

mozillaZine has evolved into a minefield, best to stay clear these days. ;-P

i use Firefox and vanilla PaleMoon, IceDragon, and they work for me for years,
opensource \m/

Welcome to the club OP. I did that move months ago and am more than satisfied. Dropped fifox years ago (just before the the major-release-fever), might look into PaleMoon one of those days.

It quite literally is. It's basically a fork of the Chromium project but with Opera's own skin (e.g. the UI has been modified).

Opera for desktop: http://dev.opera.com/blog/introducing-opera-15-for-desktop-and-a-fast-release-cycle/
> Opera 15 is based on Chromium 28 — which means that it comes with Blink on board

Yeah, Opera 15 and up were never released for Linux, and the last build of 12.16 (1860) was apparently released on July 4, 2013.

12.17 was released for Windows though, on April 23, 2014, due to a Heartbleed-related bug in the installer, the browser itself wasn't affected (according to Wikipedia). So perhaps it does still receive patches when neccesary.

A shame it is, they were very much leading the race on standards compliance, implementing more of the then-current web standards (and not-yet-final standards) than any other web engine. Now they're just piggybacking on Google's work. How the mighty have fallen.

Welcome to the jungle!

The only thing I miss in Opera is the Xmarks extension.

Unfortunately the last real version of opera was 12.16 ...anything after that is just a reskinned chrome.... gone is the customization, gone is low footprint, gone is the speed (the new version is definitely laggier run side by side with old version on my PC)...long time opera fan really quite sad....:/

Hmmm...well I don't want to use an outdated browser...I'll look into Pale Moon. Are there any other alternatives?

You can also try Seamonkey. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

I have Chrome, Firefox, and IE on my computer. I rely on Chrome mostly because there are certain add ons I use for my work daily. I am just mad that Google decided to discontinue their stand alone chat application and reintroduce it as hang outs. I guess if I want a pure basic experience I could download Trillian but then again..........

I used Opera for years and years, up until 12.16, but switched to Seamonkey recently. I think it's the closest thing to the 'classic' Opera.

I just can't stand the minimalist design of software these days. It's like they hide or remove useful features just because the end user is most likely stupid and doesn't want or know how to use those features.

Fortunately there will always be geeks who make free alternative software that actually have some features in it.