Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome better watch out,
because a new kid on the block is bringing it.
Say hi to the new Opera Neon, a new web browser
launched today by the same company that brought us the Opera
browser. For those who are not familiar to Opera, the company has
been around for more than twenty years and is the fifth most
popular desktop browser behind big names such as Google Chrome and
Firefox.
Things could change with Opera Neon – the new
browser focuses on interaction allowing users to drag and push
things around with the convenience of saving media easily.
Unlike most browsers today, tabs are taken out and
replace with icons on a visual sidebar. Other highlights include
the video pop-out feature which lets users play videos while
browsing other websites, split screen mode for viewing two pages at
once, and Snap-to-gallery function for cropping and saving any part
of the web page to the gallery for later use.
Technically, Opera Neon isn’t a browser created from
scratch, it is in fact built using open-source browser Google
Chrome. As some have pointed out, some telltale signs include the
browser settings page or dig deeper into the settings by
typing chrome://about/ in the address bar.
Opera
Neon is available for download now for Mac and Windows but
expect bugs since it is still very much in beta stage. There is
also no extension support at the moment but likely to be available
soon.