Well, just adding my grain of salt to this news. I personally have switched to Microsoft Edge as my web browser. After a big heartache computer loss 2 years ago, I had to resigne to use an older computer someone gave me. So system resources is very important. I was a fervant Firefox user until it became slow. I am totally against Google Chrome as it is useless to me. So I did try some of the main ones, such as Opera and Opera GX. Still, on the memory side of things, Firefox and Opera gave me no differences in speed and resources.
Until I fell on Edge (chromium based). I cannot say that the resource is half less, but it's not just a few mb less in memory. I gained in speed and efficiency using the new Microsoft Edge. I do however hate the very rigid GUI with big lacks of customizations of any chromium based browsers (which is why I was a Firfox user). For example, my bookmarks button was always positioned on the far left before my address bar and before the back and forward buttons. I am using NO user accounts so having a constant user button is useless to me in the toolbar. I had also arraanged my address bar to be on the left side of my tabs giving me one single space at the very top of my browser for everything, buttons, tabs and address bar. Now, I have to support this rigid GUI with wasted space, to my humble opinion.
When running Opera GX, I was impressed by it's looks, but got easily lost in the hordes of useless addons I litterally do not need. Twitch, twitter, discord, etc. I don't care at all about these things. But, AGAIN, it's oriented for those heavy on game, gameplay, game sharing etc.... But nothing can rival, for now at least, against Microsoft Edge's ease on resources. And for many years, I have never really used opera as my browser. So again, switching to Opera is not in my futur plans even though I most love Game Maker and still am encouraging it even when they changed the entire GUI to something I cannot bear until I finish redoing a new theme that best suites me.
I AM curious into what will YoYo Games do with a browser that it cannot do by it's own because focussing in integrating it's own proprietary things into one single browser, to me, is not very logical because people will not simply switch to Opera GX because of YYG. We all have our prefered browsers. I would have possibly understood the creation of a addon or extension for chromium browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc.... But to associate with Opera GX, to me, without any real news in what will be improved or used and what pushed the decision of choosing opera over other browsers? I'm still puzzled.
That's my remarks, as usefull or useless as it can be, thanks for sharing those news with us YYG