I'll upgrade this preview to a rated review once Neon is more fully developed. There are certainly plenty of kinks to be ironed out, however. All of the basic browsing needs are here in a completely reimagined interface. It's always great to see new things coming from what is arguably the most innovative browser company in history. There's reason for excitement with what Opera Neon brings to the browser table. The Mac version was a little more stable in testing: Perhaps that's because Opera has built a 64-bit Mac version, but only a 32-bit Windows version. Stability should be job one for Opera developers working on Neon. To the point where I could barely do anything online. There's a big "but" that comes with this fun, cool new browser: It shut down unexpectedly during my testing. It scored 33,354, a bit better than Firefox's 30,552, and not very far behind Opera's 34,219, Chrome's 35,841, and Edge's 37,303. This could be useful but Edge goes further in letting you annotate the copied portion, and offers slicker ways to share the result.Ī quick run of the Octane 2.0 benchmark showed Neon respectable in JavaScript performance, too. Like Microsoft Edge, Neon provides a way for you to snip and save parts of a webpage you select. Oddly, you can't reposition these to taste, and adding a new bookmark is a bit harder than it should be: You can only do so after opening a webpage, closing it, and then dragging its tab circle to the center of the window. That applies the bookmarks, which are more like desktop icons that appear randomly in the center of the program window. Whenever you delete an item such as a tab or bookmark in Neon, animated powder puffs out, and then disappears. Unlike Firefox's recent privacy-focused Firefox Focus mobile browser, Neon has most of the browsing assistant goodies we're used to: It can save passwords, show history, save bookmarks, a downloads panel, and of course multiple tabs. You can choose among the popular search engines of the day, but I was surprised that DuckDuckGo wasn't among the default choices, since it beats the rest on privacy. If you do reduce Neon's, window size, the browser itself uses responsive design, meaning its elements such a tab buttons shrink as you shrink the window.įloating in the top center of the window is a subdued search-and-address bar, which is really just an icon and a line. Instead, you can minimize the window and then hit the X in its tab circle on the right. Oddly, those webpage windows don't have an X option in the top-right corner for closing the page. It runs full-screen optimally, and webpages appear as windows within that full-screen window. The interface really feels more like a desktop than a typical browser. You can drag out page content like images to store for later use in your Gallery. The tabs are also circles, on the right side. In fact, it seems like you're looking at your desktop, rather than at a browser, since it takes over the whole screen. The browser's desktop looks more like a PC desktop, with free floating circular bookmarks. The installer is a small 36MB, and was up and running nearly instantly. I got an early look at the Neon, which doesn't look like any browser you've ever used. It's not replacing the standard browser (which offers unique features like Turbo cached browsing, Speed Dial start pages, and built-in ad blocking) but starting today anyone can download Neon to try it out. Not yet a fully released product, Neon is more of a technology preview. The latest from the Norwegian developer who brought you page zoom and built-in search, is a radical reimagining of the Web browser called Opera Neon. You gotta love Opera, that tech force from the north, for always trying to push the Web forward.
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