![]() Image used with permission by copyright holderĪll of this can be customized within the Easy Setup menu which is just a click away in the top-right corner. Those icons also have their own new mouse-over animations which Kocemba particularly enjoyed. ![]() The speed dial icons fade out to make reading search suggestions easier. The home screen features the same speed dial icons as the standard Opera browser, with a slightly modified search bar There’s a neat visual flare when you begin typing in it which fires a red bar across its base. In our brief hands on time with the browser we quite enjoyed the change of pace, although the sound effects on icon interaction – reminiscent of console operating systems – did take some getting used to. It’s an intriguing difference to most browsers’ default themes. The dark theme mirrors both typical gamer style choices and the increasingly common “dark modes” offered by apps and websites for easier viewing late at night. The artists have previously won awards for their work on the game Gris. The audio component of which, as well as a number of other interaction sounds within GX, were created in conjunction with sound designer Rubén Rincón and the band Berlinis. Kocemba was happy to announce that Opera GX is the first browser to enjoy a fully animated boot logo too. There’s an animated startup logo with a little auditory note like the logos before a game loads. ![]() The browser is immediately visually distinct from its contemporaries with a murky and brooding color palette that gives it the look and feel of gaming keyboards, mice, and laptops, which are far more dark and colorful than the beige computers of decades past. Image used with permission by copyright holder What began as a joke project for that subset of the Opera team to enjoy among themselves became something far more real before long, and today, we have Opera GX to show for it. That’s where the gamers within Opera’s developer team came up with the idea of a browser for gamers. If you want a hammer, it has to be a hammer and not also a screwdriver.” “If something is good for everybody, then sometimes you say it is good for nobody. They should be as accessible, as fast, as beautiful, for anybody,” Opera’s product manager, Maciej Kocemba told Digital Trends. That's how good this browser is.“All browsers at the moment are meant to be general purpose tools. ![]() Until then, however, I'll keep using the early access version and deal with the bugs as they come. I cannot wait for the first stable release of Opera One. Not only does it include the exciting features already found in Opera's flagship browser, it adds the multithreaded compositor for outstanding animation effects, and some new tab features that make it easy to keep a plethora of tabs organized in ways no other browser can touch. Other than the inclusion of AI and the instability of the early release version of Opera One, this browser is like no other you've ever seen. You can open a new Opera window and then open tabs in that window, but there's no (current) method of pulling a tab from a window or moving a tab from one window to another. One other issue I've run into with Opera One tabs is that you can't detach them from their current window. Just don't follow my lead and make it your default, otherwise, you will experience problems.Īlso: How to use Opera VPN (and why you should) And if you're feeling lucky, you should also give the advanced preview release of Opera One a go. If you're a tab power user, you owe it to yourself to try the Opera Browser. If not, I will go back to Firefox and be done with it. Hopefully, the browser will retain the ability to disable AI. With a simple flip of a switch, you can disable AI prompts. Fortunately, the Opera developers made it possible to do just that in Opera One. But, sadly, it's very clear Opera is placing its emphasis on AI, which is one feature I will go out of my way to disable. I don't write about AI because I don't want to give it any more agency than it already has. I've given this considerable thought and have concluded that while AI platforms such as ChatGPT and OpenAI could have meaningful applications, they are primed to wreak havoc on society and take jobs away from good people.Īlso: What is AI? Everything to know about artificial intelligence Yes, I think this is the coolest browser on the market right now, but that comes with a major caveat. First off, I have to make one disclaimer that has me slightly reticent about keeping Opera One as my default.
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