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Opera Launches Opera GX, the 'World's First Gaming Browser' for macOS

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Opera today released Opera GX, a special version of its Opera browser that it says has been built to "complement gaming" on Mac.

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Opera GX features several features designed to help users get the most out of gaming and browsing, the most prominent being GX Control, which lets users set limits on the browser's system resource usage.

Opera says a survey it conducted revealed that lack of memory and network limitations are the two main issues for gamers, which is why it came up with the idea of limiter controls for CPU, RAM, and network bandwidth.
Opera GX offers a unique set of features that provides solutions to these problems. The set of browser limiters, which includes a Network Bandwidth Limiter, as well as CPU and RAM Limiters, prevents the browser from becoming resource-hungry. What this means in practice is that everyone's machines are left with more resources for running games.
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The browser includes other features aimed at making gamers happy, including Twitch accessible from the sidebar, picture in picture for watching streams, integrated messenger services, an ad blocker, free VPN, and several custom theme options.


The macOS version of Opera's gaming browser is now available for download in early access mode. Interested users can grab it now from Opera's website.

Article Link: Opera Launches Opera GX, the 'World's First Gaming Browser' for macOS
 
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I already use Opera GX on my PC. I like the browser, has a nice UI and integrated FB Messenger / WhatsApp Support. I just don't think it helps with managing RAM.
 
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Pepe4life said:
I don’t want my browser data accessed by the Chinese government.
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On the assumption that you are not a Chinese national: they don’t (1) care at all about your browser data and (2) have time to monitor your online activity.

Chinese authorities care about one thing: their continued political hegemony. If you cannot pose a threat then you are of no interest to them. And monitoring those who can pose a threat, namely 1.3 billion Chinese nationals, leaves little manpower free for frolics and detours like spying on what the random laowai (foreigner; being a show off, I tried to put in Chinese characters but they didn’t work...) might be browsing.
 
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Mike Haas said:
Why do you buy equipment that is made by Chinese who make poverty wages while the parent company and it's CEO make millions? It's better if the company is US-owned?
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You have a point; however, what phone ISN’T made in China? Also, there’s a big difference between using a hardware product designed and quality controlled by a pro-privacy company in a democratic country versus using software from a company subsidized by a totalitarian regime notorious for having no respect for the privacy of its citizens or anyone else (among other worse things).

Can anyone cite a source showing that Golden Brick Capital Private Equity is state-backed? I’m looking.

And yes, Apple ought to ensure that the people who assemble its products are treated fairly. Apple should also pay its damn taxes!!
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Steve121178 said:
Why is American based software any more trustworthy?

Answer: It's not. Especially when GCHQ & NSA are intercepting literally everything that passes across the internet.
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Is America harvesting organs from a minority group it has imprisoned for “re-education” through labor?
 
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star-affinity said:
Another solution is to simply quit the browser while gaming? 🤔

I see it has some other game related features too, fair enough I guess…
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I never quit my browser. I might reduce the number of tabs open to 25 to 50, but I wouldn’t quit my browser just to play a game.
 
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Codpeace said:
On the assumption that you are not a Chinese national: they don’t (1) care at all about your browser data and (2) have time to monitor your online activity.

Chinese authorities care about one thing: their continued political hegemony. If you cannot pose a threat then you are of no interest to them. And monitoring those who can pose a threat, namely 1.3 billion Chinese nationals, leaves little manpower free for frolics and detours like spying on what the random laowai (foreigner; being a show off, I tried to put in Chinese characters but they didn’t work...) might be browsing.
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I honestly tend to agree with this view. That being said, if I was a person who had any type of concern about the possibility of my browsing data being seen by someone in China, I would think twice, but that's not the case.
 
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Browsing while gaming on Mac????
I barely get sub 40 frames per second running low end games like LoL on my $3000 2018 MBP without running anything in the background.
 
Codpeace said:
Chinese authorities care about one thing: their continued political hegemony. If you cannot pose a threat then you are of no interest to them.
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Completely incorrect. The Chinese actively engage in economic and industrial espionage. You must have missed the Apple Car data theft posts on this site. They target American interests at all levels, even down to hacking college students to gain access to research data.
 
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Eww that UI is so cringe. That's a real 14 year-old aesthetic.

My question is: why not just add these things to your regular browser? PiP and memory limiters are things that more than just gamers care about. The whole idea of targeting people with a special "gamer-edition" browser is itself pretty cringe.
 
Ironic that the browser is for Mac where its not a good platform for gaming.
 
Mike Haas said:
Why do you buy equipment that is made by Chinese who make poverty wages while the parent company and it's CEO make millions? It's better if the company is US-owned?
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I'm not using my computer for military secrets so I don't care where the hardware or software was made or what the workers were paid. What I care about is how the product works.
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tharitm said:
Ironic that the browser is for Mac where its not a good platform for gaming.
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You realize this is a Mac forum.... Maybe you were looking for Windowsrumors?
 
How does Opera stay in business other than using the oppressive EU regime to shut down non-European competitors and live on Chinese subsidies?
 
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