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Opera Debuts New 'Opera Neon' Concept Browser

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Opera today showcased its first ever concept browser, codenamed Opera Neon. Built on the same browser engine as the standard Opera browser, Neon is designed to focus primarily on content.

Opera Neon includes a new user interface that consists of a start page using the user's current desktop background image, a sidebar with a video player, image gallery, and download manager, and a visual tab bar that makes it easier to switch between tabs and tell which tab is active.


There's also a built-in "intelligent system" that manages tabs, with frequently used tabs listed at the top and the less used tabs being relegated to the bottom.

A pop-out video option lets users watch videos while viewing other web pages, and a snap to gallery feature lets users take a screenshot and crop any part of a webpage, saving it for later use. With an included split screen mode, it's also possible to view two web pages simultaneously, side by side.

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Opera Neon won't replace the current Opera browser, but some of its features will eventually be added to Opera. Both Mac and Windows users can download a free version of Opera Neon to test.

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They should concentrate making their main product work properly. Small things like fully loading pages and finishing its syncing code that's been promised for years. However now it has been taken over by the Chinese I've lost interest in it so don't really care.
 
Ritsuka said:
Let's reimplement every operating system feature inside an application, yeah right…
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I wholeheartedly agree here. Why are all browsers trying to get you to operate within them as much as possible? It's not very useful if the features aren't comprehensive, i.e., cropping a picture out of a webpage. That's great for the advertisement's girl who is just messaging, but if I want that screen grab to be saved locally, I have another step, if it's even possible.

Compare this to using CMD+Shift+4 (may not be the proper combo) on a Mac, which auto-saves the screen grab to my desktop. Better and simpler functionality within the OS, and not tied to any browser.
 
The smile at the end of the Ad made me cringe.

I agree with everyone else, keep the focus on being a good browser and not making these bloated apps.
 
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A really nicely designed browser, but it seems to be missing their built in ad blocking feature. First thing I did when I opened it was look for this, didn't see it so thought it might be built in. Navigated to The Verge (one of their built in suggestions) and a ****ing massive ad opened up for a movie, which was bigger than the content itself. Nope. Nope nope nope all day long. Will give this a go when it can block ads.

To think an ad is acceptable that is larger than your primary website content, and plays TWO videos inside it, is beyond ludicrous.
 
lifeisepic said:
I agree with everyone else, keep the focus on being a good browser and not making these bloated apps.
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I'm afraid this type of thing is the result of the constant "we want more" attitude among tech consumers right now. It's never enough to simply update a software or product so that it runs great. If that happens people complain there is nothing new and there is no innovation. People want everything new and running great from the start which just isn't realistic. It has to be one before it can be the other.
 
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Neon is designed to focus primarily on content.
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Funny because I've never seen a browser with that much chrome, seems to take the focus away from the content
 
Normally I like almost anything these guys come up with, but that looks absolutely horrible!

More whitespace, less features or more nested ones, redundant features that the OS already provides, apparently your wallpaper is a theme for applications now...

Not feeling it, can't wait for the whitespace fad to die off.

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As soon as I discovered you cannot zoom in and out with the trackpad like Safari, it went into the trash.
 
So these are windows on top of a virtual desktop (sort of) running in a window on my desktop. Being able to run two websites side-by-side is already build into macOS.
 
This seems like a valiant attempt to take away marketshare from the Chromebook. I say good for Opera. Competition is A Good Thing™.
 
I am really digging the "Now Playing" player on the left sidebar. Really makes it easy to control all media content that you might be playing across your browsing session. Chrome/Firefox should implement this feature, really handy and makes it a less hassle to hunt and peck for that single tab that is playing that youtube video or twitch stream while you are multitasking.
 
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