Opera unveils Opera One, an entirely redesigned browser

[kened]

kened Banned @ghirahim last edited by

@ghirahim: I miss the home button.

[weilan]

weilan last edited by weilan

I tried it and it's not better, it's worse:

This is a picture that shows the same webpage loaded in Opera one and in Brave. The comparison shows that the UI of Opera One takes much more real estate space than Brave, which results in less content of the page being visible in Opera One.

I think that the UI in Opera One is needlessly oversized for no reason and the tabs that look like floating buttons is ugly. Just because Firefox did it and Edge copied them, doesn't mean it's something that's good looking or better or more functional that you should copy as well.

Even if you are dead set to keep it that way, at least make the UI thinner and more compact so it doesn't waste so much space on useless things like showing the shadows of the tabs.

Also I found out due to the new tabs being "floating buttons", you can no longer click the topmost edge of the screen and select the tab, now you have to put in extra effort to click in the middle of the tab button.

This also applies for the scrollbars that now stand a few pixels away from the right edge of the screen so another muscle memory of clicking the rightmost edge of the screen to grab the scrollbar no longer works.

Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed with how these changes affect Opera. It feels like "change for the sake of change" to me rather than something that enriches the Opera experience.

[DarthGTB]

DarthGTB last edited by

Is this new browser Chromium as well? I'd love to see some actual innovation and competition in the market

[DarthGTB]

DarthGTB @DarthGTB last edited by DarthGTB

If this is just another version in the same Chromium browser, this is pointless. A rebranding and new skin with same features will not win a lot of new customers... I'll still try it out though. I really hope for Opera to succeed. Very cool browser overall

[idk-what-to-put-here]

idk-what-to-put-here last edited by

From the previews it looks like it's ultra animated win-11 style, and I read that it would be replacing normal opera, will I be able to stay on normal opera? Cause that ultra-animated style genuinely makes me sick. Otherwise I will just switch to Firefox or Yandex.

[max1c]

max1c last edited by

This is all great and all but you guys keep releasing concept designs like this and then abandon them. Or never implement the designs in main stream versions. I love Opera Touch navigation. But that browser isn't getting updated with new features and doesn't even have sync. Why would anyone want to use these concept designs when there is no future for them?

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oP2 @leocg last edited by

@leocg: For some years until 2023, when one version of Chromium reached beta phase, opera dev was updated to it. Some times if lucky the dev build got the dev phase Chromium. Although, since this year the dev build gets the stable chromium versions. What happended? Besides, O99 has an earlier version of Chromium than O98, lacking security exploits fixes which are present in O98. How come?

[ghirahim]

ghirahim @max1c last edited by leocg

@max1c: What concept designs? This is not a new browser, this is the main Opera browser.

[edmarcio]

edmarcio last edited by edmarcio

This will replace Opera and Opera GX? Or just be another product?
Edit - It seems like it will replace Opera... I will wait for the Stable branch.

[brunnopleffken]

brunnopleffken last edited by

The tab width is so small... you can barely see the entire page title.

[max1c]

max1c @ghirahim last edited by

@ghirahim: Not sure where you are getting this but I doubt this will ever make it to the main Opera. What concept designs? There have been a ton over the years. The most prominent ones are Opera Touch and Opera GX.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @max1c last edited by

@max1c Opera One is not a concept browser, it's Opera. Current it's the Developer version of Opera, but it will be the stable version in the future.

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max1c @leocg last edited by

@leocg: I guess that explains why they have abandoned the current interface and everything is broken.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @oP2 last edited by

@op2 The most logical reason to think about is that the development of Opera One made Opera postpone the Chromium intakes, what led to them being out of sync with Chromium releases.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @edmarcio last edited by

@edmarcio Just Opera. At least for now there's nothing about Opera GX also getting the new UI

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @max1c last edited by

@max1c Opera Neon was the only concept browser released by Opera so far.

Opera Touch is still being developed and gets regular updates. The same for Opera GX.
They aren't concept browsers, they are browsers for different audiences.

[max1c]

max1c last edited by

Tested it and it's mostly great. I like the new interface and all the features. However, it is not possible to pull tabs out of the window anymore? That's a pretty significant downgrade.

[arturo182]

arturo182 last edited by

At first glance this looks awful, desktop apps are supposed to look like desktop apps. Also why are the tabs no longer tabs and are now buttons. Opera stopped being good with version 15, and yet is still the best out there, sad state of things

[rick2]

rick2 @max1c last edited by

@max1c said:

@ghirahim: Not sure where you are getting this but I doubt this will ever make it to the main Opera.

From https://www.opera.com/one

Opera One (currently early-access developer version) is a completely redesigned browser, planned to replace the flagship Opera Browser for Windows, macOS, and Linux later this year.

[rick2]

rick2 @weilan last edited by

@weilan: agreed, the waste of space was the first thing I noticed, even comparing against Opera Stable/Beta