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Natalia Asteria • Edited

Alright, the first question. I use Vivaldi on mobile (for the cleaness) and sometimes Kiwi (for the extension-support). On desktop I use Opera GX 'cuz it's more RAM-friendly than most Chromium-based apps.

The second question, yeah:

  • Something as fast as Opera GX, it works well on my 4GB RAM laptop. And I can now run quite a lot of tabs with it.
  • Firefox's devtools and Chrome's devtools combined, somehow. Firefox basically covers a lot of things but it doesn't have Lighthouse.
  • If it's a mobile browser it has to have the same experience as desktop browsers. Extensions, themes, and dev tools. Eruda sucks a lot, would prefer use an actual devtool like in desktop instead of that. And for extensions, we already got extesion support in Yandex and Kiwi Browser lol.
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Thalita G.

Aw yeah, Opera GX is a great Chromium-based browser for low-end devices! It's most definitely very underrated due to advertising itself as a browser for gamers.

Also yeah, Firefox has incredible devtools and I don't feel it's that much to ask from Chrome to have the same features. Hopefully they do something about it one day.