Opera GX - The Gaming Browser 👾

eishiya · September 28, 2019, 10:23pm

On a high-end desktop with lots of RAM to spare, you probably also don’t have a need for a specialised browser with a RAM and CPU usage limiter :/ So, aside from what is basically a built-in ad page (GX Corner) and Twitch integration, this doesn’t really do anything.

Enki · September 29, 2019, 1:10am

Well, at least for me who was already an Opera user, it’s an small upgrade. I get it that most people won’t change their current browser for something like this. But we never know what this could lead to, Google Stadia is coming and is possible that they could tweak their browser towards gaming as well, who knows.

And as always, you can customize what you have, if you don’t want to see news or ads, whatever on that page, you can disable it. I had disabled some stuff when I started using Opera because it was irrelevant to me.

coralinecastell · September 29, 2019, 12:46pm

Sad there seems to be no “import from Firefox” option.
Does it work on Linux? can’t find mention of it on a first glance but don’t want to assume…

Thanks for sharing, Enki!

delenn13 · September 29, 2019, 12:49pm

Gonna have to check this out. Thanks for the heads up, @Enki

Enki · September 29, 2019, 1:55pm

Since it’s beta phase, I don’t think so, but hopefully it will. Default Opera is available, why wouldn’t the GX be as well. Right?

Truly · September 29, 2019, 8:37pm

Does anyone here know if there’s a way to disable the “gx corner”? I wouldn’t browse these “news” sites willingly much less have a dedicated tab for them.

Edit: Took me a while to figure out but there is an option to only display gx corner in the sidebar, then you can disable the sidebar. But I guess you’re out of luck if you actually want the sidebar.

Enki · September 29, 2019, 11:23pm

You almost got it figured. Display the GX Corner on the sidebar then right click the sidebar, uncheck the “Gaming Corner” option, and voilà!

Truly · September 30, 2019, 12:28am

Oh excellent! I probably still won’t use the sidebar but it’s good to know.

I’m gonna try to use this as my main browser for a while and see what I think. I mean it’s just chrome so I guess it’s not that big of a change.

GDBringer · January 27, 2021, 10:31am

Resurrecting this topic.

Saw angryjoe advert this. It looks like all the promised features from OP are in and it is in early access. Even integrated discord.

But I want to know what @Enki thinks about it. Are you still using it? Is anyone else? I’m on the brave browser but I’m always on the lookout for alternatives.

Enki · January 27, 2021, 10:13pm

Yeah, I’m still using it. Did not have any problems with it and feels much more performance-friendly compared to other browsers I used before. Highly customizable, the features I use the most are GX Control (Limiters), Discord/WhatsApp integrations and Forced Dark Pages (tries to convert every webpage into dark mode, does a good job most of the time). It’s chromium based, so you can use most chrome extensions without issues.

P.S.: I’m bad doing reviews :v

Rhyagelle · January 27, 2021, 10:22pm

The limiters are a bad idea in practice. If your browser needs more power and memory, but is being commanded not to receive it, it’ll crash the browser.

Enki · January 28, 2021, 12:59am

I only have it active while I’m playing something, so I usually only have one or two tabs opened and maybe discord, never experienced any crashes. You can just turn it off when it’s not necessary.

While in the past, I couldn’t even afford to play some games with a browser opened because I don’t have much ram.

GDBringer · January 28, 2021, 1:45am

Well I’m convinced. If you’ve used it for so long, that in and of itself is proof it has some value.

Since it is early access now, I wonder what it’s final product will look like.

Fraggles · January 28, 2021, 2:08am

Personally I see integrations of various services and such a deal breaker, I really do not want to use discord or whatsApp or whatever else so why would I want a browser with these things loaded up, integrated and primed to collect data on ALL my browsing activity?

If those sites want to offer plugins to integrate themselves into your browser then their users can use those, why bundle it into the browser itself?

carvalho20ptc · January 28, 2021, 2:21am

Looks promising but I think I’ll download it once it’s finished.

Danacscott · January 28, 2021, 6:35pm

I like Opera, but stopped using it - not too potato friendly.

Enki · February 17, 2021, 7:38am

Took them long enough to add something like this. Was probably one of the first feedbacks I gave haha

Still baffles me how Spotify doesn’t listen to its consumers and bring a lite version / mini player.

dogetail · February 17, 2021, 9:04am

I saw this gx thing in the past downloaded it and deleted it again because I didn’t get what it was lol but maybe it will be better once full release

I do use opera though on one of my laptops it’s got decent free “VPN” (not really a full VPN just a web one but can still have use) and it’s clean and such

delenn13 · February 17, 2021, 2:50pm

I used to use Opera; then, I found Vivaldi. I still have Opera installed just never think to use it.

dogetail · February 17, 2021, 3:20pm

Weird enough I did the reverse aha
I used to use vivaldi it did have a lot of neat features such as tab stacking but I completely forgot about it. I moved to opera partly because my university friends were using it. But i’d say vivaldi is good too. I don’t use the web browser on my pc much anyway as im mostly mobile and at work pretty much forced to use chrome.