Opera Neon concept browser

#1

Post by napolux » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 1:50 PM UTC

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#2

Post by avar » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

For anyone hoping for a Presto revival it's Chrome under the hood:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_2)
    AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
    Chrome/53.0.2785.21 Safari/537.36 MMS/1.0.2459.0

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#3

Post by the_duke » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:01 PM UTC

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).

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#4

Post by StavrosK » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

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.

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#5

Post by StavrosK » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:05 PM UTC

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).

As opposed to the font of amazing usability innovations that are Chrome, Safari and Firefox?

I'll take something over nothing any day.

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#6

Post by pawadu » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:07 PM UTC

avar wrote: post #2

For anyone hoping for a Presto revival it's Chrome under the hood: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.21 Safari/537.36 MMS/1.0.2459.0

Opera moved to webkit in 2012 (2013?) and then to Blink soon after googles announcement.

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#7

Post by skrebbel » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:07 PM UTC

On Windows, the page title is "Opera Neon concept browser for Windows".

Maybe rename to [for Mac and Windows]?

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#8

Post by Zelmor » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:08 PM UTC

I like the screen-cap utility. All the rest seems useless, knowing that people already litter their desktops with a million icons.

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#9

Post by julienmarie » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC

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 extensions.

Re: Opera Neon concept browser

#10

Post by jedimastert » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:11 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #7

On Windows, the page title is "Opera Neon concept browser for Windows". Maybe rename to [for Mac and Windows]?

Or maybe take out the operating system