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A few months ago i stumbled upon the new Opera, in search of battery saving on my Macbook Pro. My battery lasts longer than when using Chrome, because of the bu
by tiku 10y ago
A few months ago i stumbled upon the new Opera, in search of battery saving on my Macbook Pro. My battery lasts longer than when using Chrome, because of the built in power saving.
The VPN addition is nice to, for testing purposes or just surfing safely.
The only problem i have with Opera for now is that i'm not able to use Chrome plugins.. Not everything is available on Opera.
- vezycash 10y agoThey would should have made it easy to sideload chrome extensions. Try this app "Download chrome extensions." It'll allow you to download extensions straight from the Chrome store. https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/app_id/kipjbhgniklcnglfaldilecjomjaddfi https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/app_id/kipjbhgni...
- jwr 10y agoOn a Mac, I just use Safari. It is very power efficient, fast, pages scroll smoothly, it's basically the best browser for the platform. I switch to Chrome for web development because of the better developer tools, but my battery life suffers badly when I do that.
- dictum 10y agoOn a desktop Mac with a lot of RAM, would you pick Safari over Chrome for general browsing? I've been using Chrome for a while but I'm thinking of switching back to Safari. I no longer have a big need for extensions that are not available for Safari (I miss uBlock, but I think I can make do with a Safari Content Blocker list and dnsmasq) I don't have a Macbook but I might start using it soon, so it'd nice to use the same browser in both devices.
- jwr 10y agoYes, definitely. Safari is more responsive, scrolls better and is overall faster.
- Sylos 10y agoFirefox is the second best browser on OSX in terms of battery efficiency (at least from what I've gathered from benchmarks) and has good developer tools, too, so you might be able to compromise with that.