Opera Neon — A concept of tomorrow’s web browser you can play with today.

@bentossell Hey Ben! Yeah those were definitely a few of our favorites internally as well. Under the hood Opera Neon is built using the same browser engine as the main Opera browser so performance figures will be similar to our tests we release on our main browser. Our main focus with Neon was to explore new ways of bringing beautiful web content front and center in the browser experience. Neon will not replace the current Opera browser but is simply our vision for the future of how browsers might look in the future. Some of its new features are expected to be added to Opera this spring.

@bentossell you are the voice of many early adopters.

@chetaaron apart from the highlighted features, i feel when AI comes into a browser, that will change everything. As a part of my research in this, i feel you can also consider this possibility in the future of the Neon (which is the future of the browser).

@think_andreah Just grab one of the tabs on the right and you'll see prompts showing you where to drop it to launch the split screen :)

@chetaaron Does that mean it'll get discontinued within a few months? I've already fallen in love with it and don't want to let it go, ever!

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@mannyorduna Thanks for the kind words! Definitely let us know what you think after you've had some time to play around with it :)

@chetaaron I can't seem to set it as my default browser, keep clicking but it keeps un-asssigning after leaving the settings screen

@mannyorduna Check for a system prompt behind the window?

@mannyorduna No worries, glad you got it set up! :)

@chetaaron Would like to echo everyone else's opinion about the very much needed addition of extension support. Ads are the bane of my, and I suppose everyone else's existence.

@neerajt4 Thanks for the hunt! We are very excited to finally release our new concept browser, Opera Neon. By taking the established conventions of what desktop browsers have traditionally looked and felt like and throwing them out the window we freed ourselves to explore and re-imagine what desktop browsers could be. A few features debuting in Opera Neon's completely refreshed user interface include: New start page using users’ current desktop background image. A left sidebar with video player, image gallery, and download manager. A new visual tab bar on the right side of the browser window that makes it easier to distinguish between tabs. An intelligent system that automatically manages tabs; like gravity, frequently-used tabs float to the top, while rarely-used tabs will sink to the bottom. A completely new omnibox, supporting top search engines and open search. Also, new ways of enjoying web content have been added: Video pop-out, which lets users to watch videos while browsing other web pages Snap-to-gallery, which allows users to snapshot and crop any part of a web page and save to the gallery for later use. A split screen mode which allows for two pages to be used simultaneously. We would love to hear your thoughts!

@jameskoole just do this for DuckDuckGo or any other search engine you want. The settings of Neon are just like Chrome. In fact, it is a Chrome browser: https://duckduckgo.com/install?t=hs

@gabszanto haha was hoping someone would comment on that 😄🖖

@citizenfatimah Appreciate the kind words!! IRT bookmarks: We grew tired of browsers treating the web like paper documents, crudely stuffing them into a briefcase to sort out and come back to later, which is why one of the highlights of Opera Neon is that we have largely removed the need for bookmarking your favorite sites! The Speed Dials in Neon automatically collect your most frequently used sites with the ones you visit most often rising to the top and those shown less love eventually falling down and out of view. You can also drag tabs over into these Speed Dials manually if you don't want to wait for the system to do it automatically!

@chetaaron @citizenfatimah So maybe think about history import functionality of user primary browser? Or just analyze it and drag the data about most important website to Newon? It could helps us to move our pined websites and most important url's to Opera :).

@chetaaron @citizenfatimah I don't bookmark because it's my fav site (as in: frequently visited) , I bookmark because I may need the page again later on.

@matt_aunger Thanks for the love Matt!

@chetaaron Maybe I'm being dumb, I can't get Facebook videos to work! I click them in my news feed but always get the "Something went wrong" message. The same videos work perfectly in Chrome.

@matt_aunger Fix is coming soon :)

@chetaaron 🎉 Hooray! I'm not being dumb this time 😅

@matt_aunger haha ;p keep an eye out for the update on Monday :D

@gadgick Thanks Nick we are glad you like it!!