Opera Neon concept browser

Post by sleepychu » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 4:51 PM UTC

ek750 wrote: post #75

dgrealy wrote: post #46

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One thing that bites me occasionally with the current browsers is when I'm closing a lot of tabs with cmd-w but go too far and accidentally close the last one and loose the window. Windows close with cmd shift w so this behavior makes sense to me. I like your attention to those shortcuts though I think we have similar standards:)

The three browsers I use have command shortcuts that undo the accidental window closures. Though I have to wonder how much resources are taken by the undo feature.

Post by ryanSrich » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 4:52 PM UTC

dgrealy wrote: post #46

dtnewman wrote: post #24

I am generally pretty hesitant to change browsers, but I actually really like the feel of this. It's super clean and the keyboard shortcuts are the same as what I'm used to so it seems like it should be an easy switch. Definitely something worth looking at. I'll probably try this out over the next few weeks. My only gripe so far is that when I click command+w, I want it to default to closing the window when I am on t…

One thing that bites me occasionally with the current browsers is when I'm closing a lot of tabs with cmd-w but go too far and accidentally close the last one and loose the window. Windows close with cmd shift w so this behavior makes sense to me. I like your attention to those shortcuts though I think we have similar standards:)

Post by lygaret » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 4:55 PM UTC

zzzcpan wrote: post #74

pvg wrote: post #64

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What does that even mean? They're sparing a potential competitor the entire R&D cost of a modern, cross-platform browser. I don't think Google developed Chrome out of sheer altruism but it's probably cheaper now to compete in the browser space than ever. It's unlikely to be profitable, though, in itself.

On what can you compete with Chrome using their own engine?

Post by notatoad » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 4:59 PM UTC

Yhippa wrote: post #89

Split screen mode is such a good idea and I wonder why other browsers haven't implemented that yet. Would make devices like Chromebooks a lot more productive to me.

Post by febed » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

V-2 wrote: post #30

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.

I used Vivaldi for a couple of months. Plenty of goodness, and one major showstopper: it's slow. It's so very sluggish and slow. Something as trivial as tearing a tab off a window would take several seconds. Switching between tabs was laggy as well, once there were many. Every other browser felt blazingly fast after that. That's a pity since this type of issues usually indicates some deeper design problems that won't…