Opera introduces Opera Air – a new browser built to make you feel better
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Opera Comments Bot last edited byToday we’re introducing Opera Air, the first web browser built around the concept of mindfulness. With Opera Air we’re introducing a secure, powerful, and fully functional browser that is designed to make you feel better while you’re browsing the web.
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tastodd last edited byI used it for 20 minutes for work, it seems fast.
But in my opinion, it would be better if the Opera team implemented all the visual innovations in this new browser, and left the standard version of One in the classic visual design as it was starting from the 100th version
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erdinc53 last edited by
Instead of a new browser, you could have made a comprehensive theme for Opera One.
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andrew84 last edited by andrew84
Reminded Opera Neon concept browser.
But at first sight looks a way better than Opera One, more elegant and smoother (visually).
But on the other hand, it's sad that the 'copy - paste' browsers conveyor is still in work and distracts developers attention from the main desktop browser which still needs a lot of work to become as smooth as pre One version at least. There's a chance that the Air browser will suffer the fate of the Crypto browser.*Btw, when trying to watch youtube videos it's freezing a lot (HW accel. is on).
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vyrgozunqk last edited by
@erdinc53 said:
Instead of a new browser, you could have made a comprehensive theme for Opera One.
Yeah, i also don't get why they push like three different browsers which all use different skins essentially have a bit of different features, instead of having one browser with three different modes which enable or disable certain features.
All of them have some usefull stuff on its own, but i won't use three different browsers at the same time.
I also don't understand why they don't focus on polishing stuff like the sync, which is unreliable and slow compared to the competitors, it's completely missing from the iOS app... -
erdinc53 last edited by
@vyrgozunqk said in Opera introduces Opera Air – a new browser built to make you feel better:
@erdinc53 said:
Instead of a new browser, you could have made a comprehensive theme for Opera One.
Yeah, i also don't get why they push like three different browsers which all use different skins essentially have a bit of different features, instead of having one browser with three different modes which enable or disable certain features.
All of them have some usefull stuff on its own, but i won't use three different browsers at the same time.
I also don't understand why they don't focus on polishing stuff like the sync, which is unreliable and slow compared to the competitors, it's completely missing from the iOS app...Most browsers cannot add features due to the restrictions imposed by Apple on the iOS. It's all Apple's fault.
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vyrgozunqk last edited by
@erdinc53 Vivaldi, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, they all have full syncing capabilities, it's not apple in this case.
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erdinc53 last edited by
@vyrgozunqk They don't have all the features. far behind their Android counterparts.
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vyrgozunqk last edited by
@erdinc53 I use Edge on both Android and iOS, the only difference is the lack of extensions on iOS, while there are few on the Android version.
Everything else 1:1
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Himmelssheriff99 last edited byIt really looks great and I hope they will take some clues from the design over to their flagship browser. I suppose that it‘s mainly a marketing thing anyway. But who knows?
Me for my part, I hope that such developments don‘t take ressources from their main browser. -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@Himmelssheriff99 I guess the browsers are simply for different audiences.
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Himmelssheriff99 last edited by
@leocg Probably, but I wouldn't mind a blend of both in a way, as I really like the design.
I guess it may go the way of Opera Crypto in the end, giving One-users the opportunity to enable the Air-stuff in the former version.
I'd say for me it is very important though, that the development of Opera One doesn't suffer from the efforts für GX and Air, but that it rather gains from their insights and special features. -
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paul-durham last edited by
I like the look and feel of Opera Air. I was surprised that it offered to import all data from competing browsers but not from Opera One. This may imply that Opera doesn't want it current user-base to move to Opera Air, but it still surprised me.
Also, I see that Tab Islands are not implemented (yet) in Opera Air. This may be deliberate because adding Tab Islands may lead to cluttering the interface, something Opera Air is trying to get away from. However Workspaces have been implemented. -
PullupPaul last edited by
I have been a long-time fan of the Opera browser. However, I didn't really like its updated version, so I used the old 99 build for a long time. I saw Opera Air and it inspired me. I've been using this browser as my main one for a week now. But I've noticed that it often freezes. Moreover, my computer (MS Office and other applications) slows down because of the browser, which is impossible for a PC with a Ryzen 3600 and 16 GB of RAM. I kindly ask the developers to improve AIr faster, because I do want to continue using it.
