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Re: Opera Neon concept browser

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Post by digi_owl »

StavrosK wrote: post #4

This made me realize how little innovation there is in the browser space today. Opera used to innovate extensively before the sale, and it looks like at least they're trying to keep doing it. I'm also hopeful for Vivaldi. Chrome and Firefox are completely stagnant, unfortunately.

More like before tossing Presto and reskinning Chrome.

That said, this is perhaps the second time i have seen them unveil a concept browser for an Apple platform.

Really goes to show how big a fixture Apple is in web development. But then i hold that this can be attributed to when web development moved from the computing department to the media production department. As the latter had been a Mac stronghold since the intro of the original Mac in combo with Apple's laserwriter printer.

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julienmarie wrote: post #9

I switched from Chrome to Opera a couple of weeks ago and I don't see myself switching back. Little details make the difference: Better ram and battery consumption ( for now ), better tab management, integrated ad blocker and turbo mode when I'm using my phone as a hotspot ( living in a country with awful internet, it's really useful for basic browsing ). And as it's chromium inside, it's compatible with Chrome exten…

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Re: Opera Neon concept browser

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Post by pawadu »

StavrosK wrote: post #4

This made me realize how little innovation there is in the browser space today. Opera used to innovate extensively before the sale, and it looks like at least they're trying to keep doing it. I'm also hopeful for Vivaldi. Chrome and Firefox are completely stagnant, unfortunately.

Off course Firefox is stagnant. The the Mozilla board is floating in money and has no reason to change things.

The little work that gets done is done by skunkworkers, volunteers or third party projects.

edit: see for yourself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101637

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

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Post by skykooler »

digi_owl wrote: post #11
StavrosK wrote: post #4

This made me realize how little innovation there is in the browser space today. Opera used to innovate extensively before the sale, and it looks like at least they're trying to keep doing it. I'm also hopeful for Vivaldi. Chrome and Firefox are completely stagnant, unfortunately.

More like before tossing Presto and reskinning Chrome. That said, this is perhaps the second time i have seen them unveil a concept browser for an Apple platform. Really goes to show how big a fixture Apple is in web development. But then i hold that this can be attributed to when web development moved from the computing department to the media production department. As the latter had been a Mac stronghold since the…

It's not just for Mac. On Windows or Linux, the page title is "Opera Neon concept browser for Windows".

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

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Post by digi_owl »

the_duke wrote: post #3

Wow. You can open websites with icons. And you can take screenshots. Pretty amazing. (There might be more to Neon, of course, but if there is, the video is horrible in showing it off).

Seem to effectively be a continuation of their Coast browser on iPhone.

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Post by martinstartsup »

Interesting bubbly new browser! Just the blog post says: "Some new features you won’t have seen in a browser before: (...) A vertical, visual tab bar on the right side of the browser window that makes it easier to distinguish between tabs." Really? I use it everyday in Vivaldi Browser :)

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Post by skrebbel »

OK, I'm giving it a roll. First impression: very positive. It's notably great on touch screens. The "tabs" and buttons are nice and big - no more accidentally closing a tab I meant to open by fat-fingering it. It brings back a bit of the UX goodness that was IE11 on Windows 8 (before you snark, IE11, despite its terrible engine, had a fantastic fullscreen mode in Windows 8 with fantastic UX for touch, which got removed in Windows 10).

It doesn't seem to support extensions so I can't replace my normal Opera with it - that's a shame, I would've.

The fluffy floaty icon bubble is a great start screen. Remove all the advertised nonsense sites and pin your favourites there (it was easy to discover how) and somehow I find finding stuff easier than it was in Opera classic's Speed Dial page. On first impression, at least.

The chrome does take a fair amount of screen real estate though. Not sure I'd need the address bar to be so big and present.

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