Does anyone know if the Opera GX browser no longer gets major version upgrades?

As my member title indicates, I am a web browser enthusiast and use many Mozilla Firefox and Chromium-based web browsers. All of these browsers work well and I try my best to keep them continuously updated and upgraded with minor and major versions.

 

I have even created a text file where I list the various browsers' version numbers to maintain an overview of the updates and upgrades. With as many as 15-16 browsers, there are necessarily some differences between the various Chromium-based browsers' versions.

 

Most of these browsers are currently on major version 126, which is the same as Google Chrome, which is the most frequently updated. Whenever I update and upgrade Google Chrome, I successively and gradually do the same with the other Chromium-based browsers.

 

Doing the above usually works well, but recently, I have noticed that Opera GX still is being updated, but only with MINOR updates. It appears that the MAJOR version upgrades of Opera GX no longer are happening and the browser is consequently still on version 123.

 

I already know that the Opera company, which created the Opera browser and the Opera GX browser, also created other Opera browsers. However, at least once, the Opera company has discontinued one of its browsers because it was dubbed a "concept browser".

 

One such browser was Opera Neon, and hence, my resulting question is as follows: Does anyone know if the Opera GX browser no longer gets major version upgrades?

 

Thank you very much in advance!

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/opera_gx.html

Thank you, Porthos!

However, I decided to do some research myself on Opera GX, and found an article on Opera GX - Update Released! | Opera forums, which shows that the last time it got upgraded to a major new version was on April 23, 2024.

And that was an upgrade with TWO major new versions at once, so the fact that it currently is THREE major versions behind Google Chrome is disconcerting, but I guess only time will tell.

Edited by iMacg3, 24 June 2024 - 09:41 PM.
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Starting today, there are minor updates to several Chromium-based web browsers, and I am gradually updating them as the updates become available.

 

I realize that I need to be patient while waiting for the opportunity to update and upgrade my Mozilla Firefox and Chromium-based browsers, but I am also eager.

 

I understand that there are NOT many other BC members and Staff members who also use as many as 15-16 browsers, but some members do this, which is nice.

 

There seems to be a consensus that only advanced users, such as programmers and web designers, can benefit from using many browsers, but even I want to do that.

 

I am NOT a programmer or a web designer, but I once met another man who worked as a graphical designer in a newspaper who shared an essential computer philosophy.

 

He said that there is NOTHING within computers that one cannot be enthusiastic about, and he supported the fact that I am a security and web browser enthusiast.

 

I am considering registering a new user account on the Opera forums to see if I can start subscribing to Opera GX - Update Released! | Opera forums, but I am unsure.

 

However, because I check for updates and upgrades to my Chromium-based browsers several times daily, maybe doing the above is essentially redundant, even though it would be nice.

 

I discovered that the Opera forums have their server in Germany, with Flagfox in Mozilla Firefox. However, I know a Chinese consortium owns Opera, so I have a reason for being reluctant.

 

As such, I would like to ask if you think it is well worth registering a new user account on the Opera forums for this purpose or if that is just a waste of time and NOT recommendable.

 

Thank you!

There seems to be a consensus that only advanced users, such as programmers and web designers, can benefit from using many browsers, but even I want to do that.

With Internet Explorer and Edge (not chromium based) are gone the above statement is untrue. Programmers and Web Developers can use Firefox and Chrome to make webpages and web browser extensions.

I know of no programmers that use 15 to 16 different web browsers.

As a Cyber Security Expert, I will mainly use 2 maybe 3 browsers at the most to perform my duties with open-source intelligence collection and analysis.

Thank you, cryptodan!

Okay, at least that statement used to be true, but it is nice to hear from you as a Cyber Security Expert that it nowadays is untrue because I as a security and web browser enthusiast try to prove that also enthusiasts can use many web browsers.

However, most, if not all, of my 15-16 Mozilla Firefox and Chromium-based web browsers are official desktop editions and their respective unofficial portable editions, except Chromium Stable and Microsoft Edge Chromium.

The main difference between these two editions is that the unofficial portable editions have several specific functions disabled for the purpose of improving the portability, but the respective browser editions' graphical user interface is intact.

Disabling features would detour me as a security expert.

Thank you, cryptodan!

I use them when I suspect a malware infection on a pc I'm working on.

Okay, but if I may ask, in your quoted statement above from my topic on These many modern Desktop and Portable Web Browsers are the most popular to use, Post #4, I suppose it was portable browsers that you were referring to?

Thank you, cryptodan!
 

I use them when I suspect a malware infection on a pc I'm working on.

Okay, but if I may ask, in your quoted statement above from my topic on These many modern Desktop and Portable Web Browsers are the most popular to use, Post #4, I suppose it was portable browsers that you were referring to?

Yes that is what I was referring to. As a security expert I prefer using tools with all options available, because those options could disallow me from performing vital tasks such as reconstruction of websites and ssl certificates from firewall captures and IDS/IPS to be as safe as possible.

Thank you, cryptodan!

I changed my mind and registered a new user account on the Opera forums, which went well. I created a solid password with 22 random complex characters, uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
 
I changed the Opera forums settings and now subscribe to Opera GX - Update Released! | Opera forums, which means I will get an E-mail notification whenever that topic is EDITED because THAT is what the OP does.
 
Interestingly, during the registration process, the Opera forum's password generator recommends creating a password with 8-255 characters, and this is the very first occasion wherein I got a maximum password character number limit listed.
 
I checked my new password on Password Monster, which reported that it is Very Strong and that it would take 403 trillion trillion years to crack it. And the website even said: "Review: Fantastic, using that password makes you as secure as Fort Knox."
 
However, I could have created an even stronger password when the maximum limit is a whopping 255 characters, but if I were to do that, that would make all my other 22-character passwords pale in comparison. I would likely even have to create many new stronger passwords too.
 
Because I currently have a total of thirteen 22-character passwords and one 15-character password, that would imply changing a lot of passwords for no particular reason other than to match my new password, but I always have the opportunity to strengthen them in the future.
 
Thank you!

Edited by midimusicman79, 26 June 2024 - 08:35 PM.