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On 16/07/2020 12:44, Rich Brown wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I see a lot of adverts for Opera saying it is a gaming browser, is this
> a gimmick please? It sounds wrong.
I'm pretty sure it's just marketing bumpf chief - not the sort of thing
that the Advertising Standards Agency are going to get angry about but
of a similar "truthiness" value to Microsoft advertising their new Edge
as having "more value". Whatever that means.
Funnily enough both Opera and Edge are Chrome under the covers anyway so
they're all much of a muchness regardless of platform. Support for
gaming related technology and browser hardware acceleration is
absolutely all over the place on Linux so if you're thinking of doing
some in-browser gaming of some kind you're probably going to end up
wanting to try most of them to see what works best for you.
Very recent Firefox is starting to enable WebRender and hardware
acceleration by default on some Linux systems depending on a whole raft
of other variables and is almost definitely going to be your best bet.
I sometimes fiddle with the Internet Archives' online game stuff in a
browser (Firefox) while "waiting for things to compile", there's a lot
of really cool old classics in there:
https://archive.org/details/software
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