I have been very happy with DuckDuckGo, and it has helped me break free of routines that I did not feel safe with. Especially the small flame icon that would clear all history, cookies and cache from websites that are not “fireproofed” was great!

But today I had to do a quick example on Tinkercad (3D browser design tool) and it was so slow! I thought that my PC maybe was busy doing something (yeah its an older PC but not THAT old), but when I open the same page on my now parked Opera browser, everything went smoothly.

I am ok with using Opera, or any other browser for 3D work, as I don’t really do all that much of it, but I just feel gutted to find out that my now favorite browser sucks so bad at something, not to mention the Microsoft Edge processes when that is the last of any browser that I would choose to use

EDIT: I found out that this was due to hardware acceleration was off, on my DuckDuckGo browser. I had turned it off, because the fonts on websites looked blurry when it was on. The solution was to turn off antialising on the Nvidia control panel, and restart the PC. It is now working well!

  • LWD
    43·
    4 months ago

    The first version of Opera was shareware (i.e. paid and free)

    Edit: AtariDump is a troll, but to people who aren’t:

    The old adage “If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product” is often true.

    • AtariDump@lemmy.world
      26·
      5 months ago

      Yes, and EVERY other web browser at the time was free.

      Why would anyone choose a web browser you had to pay for in the 90’s? There was no reason.

      • LWD
        52·
        5 months ago

        You serious?

        NCSA Mosaic, free only for personal use. Dominated the market.

        Netscape Navigator, cost money for personal use. Dominated the market even longer.

        Netscape Navigator costing money -- $60 worth originally

        And if we look past you being wrong, I don’t even know what point you’re trying to make. Microsoft Internet Explorer was free in the '90s, and it was due to Microsoft trying to wipe out the competition through monopoly.

        • AtariDump@lemmy.world
          56·
          5 months ago

          Netscape navigator was free in the 90’s.

          My point is that no one wanted to pay for a browser in the 90’s which forced opera into obscurity compared to IE and Netscape Navigator.

          Edit: From your own article “ Netscape announced in its first press release (13 October 1994) that it would make Navigator available without charge to all non-commercial users”

          No one cares about commercial licensing.

          • LWD
            63·
            4 months ago

            Couldn’t be bothered to read a couple more sentences?

            However, two months later, the company announced that only educational and non-profit institutions could use version 1.0 at no charge.

            Or if you’re more of a visual learner…

            Update: and then AtariDump dishonestly changes the timeline and the goalposts. Glad I wasted my time on the troll

            • AtariDump@lemmy.world
              26·
              5 months ago

              Nope.

              By the time people came around to the internet it was with Netscape Navigator 3 which was free.

              Opera was not.

              • LWD
                32·
                4 months ago

                Couldn’t be bothered to read a couple more sentences?

                Nope

                Oh cool. You’re a troll.

                • AtariDump@lemmy.world
                  26·
                  4 months ago

                  Thanks!

                  Not a troll, someone who thinks web browsers (and, according to l33t Obiwan,) information wants to be free)

                  Fuck opera for charging for a web browser when every other one was free (when IE 1 came out).

                  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlM
                    2·
                    4 months ago

                    Opera is the reason we have tabbed browsing, cleaner UI and caused browser wars until 2012/13 which resulted in better performance and better web standards compatibility for all browsers. Opera used to ace the ACID test while all others lagged.