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diff --git a/opera-reborn3.txt b/opera-reborn3.txt index 107caaa..ec0ad9f 100644 --- a/opera-reborn3.txt +++ b/opera-reborn3.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Opera's innovation track record is impressive and it bears paying attention to w ## Reborn 3 -The first thing that jumps out about Opera 60 is that most the new features arrived in the mobile version first and were brought to the desktop afterward. This makes sense given that much of Opera's user base is on mobile. Indeed, mobile is where Opera still leads with considerable innovation, especially Opera Touch which manages to do something no other mobile browser has yet pulled off -- making it easy to browse with one hand even on larger devices. +The first thing that jumps out about Opera 60 is that most of the new features arrived in the mobile version first and were brought to the desktop afterward. This makes sense given that much of Opera's user base is on mobile. Indeed, mobile is where Opera still leads with considerable innovation, especially Opera Touch which manages to do something no other mobile browser has yet pulled off -- making it easy to browse with one hand even on larger devices. Opera Touch also has some thoughtful features like a built-in cookie dialog blocker that's actually pretty effective at hiding those annoying legal-compliance cookie notices. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ I've also long been a fan of Opera Mini, which is perfect for bandwidth constrai Opera's Desktop offering is considerably less innovative, though it still offers plenty you won't find in Chrome or Firefox, including the new blockchain support and crypto wallet. What will be most obvious to Opera users in this update though is the new look. -Any visual redesign is likely to anger at least some existing users and Opera 60 is no exception, judging by the Opera forums. That said, to my eye the new look is really nice. It's clean, well-thought out in terms of feature placement, and does a good job of staying out of the way of the actual webpage. +Any visual redesign is likely to anger at least some existing users and Opera 60 is no exception, judging by the Opera forums. That said, to my eye the new look is really nice. It's clean, well-thought-out in terms of feature placement, and does a good job of staying out of the way of the actual webpage. The new look follows the general trend that's enchanted browser makers for some years now -- reducing the user interface to better display the webpage. Opera doesn't carry this trend as far as some competitors though. Opera, for example, still retains its very useful sidebar. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ You can hide the sidebar if you don't use it, but personally I don't worry about In fact, the Opera 60 redesign bears more than a passing resemblance to Vivaldi, which has a similar looking sidebar, square tabs and generally minimalist feel. Perhaps Opera has been studying the more recent efforts of its co-founder, Jon von Tetzchner, now CEO of Vivaldi. -While I like Opera's new look, it's not without some shortcomings. Like Firefox, if you open more tabs then will fit on screen, it scrolls them off screen. While I realize many people like this (judging by Opera's user forums), it drives me crazy -- just keep making the tabs smaller. +While I like Opera's new look, it's not without some shortcomings. Like Firefox, if you open more tabs than will fit on screen, it scrolls them off screen. While I realize many people like this (judging by Opera's user forums), it drives me crazy -- just keep making the tabs smaller. On the plus side, Opera's tab menu in the toolbar, complete with large preview images of the currently hovered tab is amazing for quickly finding that tab needle in a haystack. What would be even better is if it could be activated and navigated with the keyboard. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Opera has been heavily touting what it calls Web 3 as part of this release, but But once you get past that initial definition there's often a lot of white papers, hand waving and muttering of the phrase blockchain. The hope is that distributed tools will eventually create a more decentralized web with fewer single points of failure, but that's still a long way off. -The most mainstream part of the decentralized web stack is payment processing. Instead of payments through credit cards or Paypal, there's Bitcoin, Ethereum and others. This is what Opera is supporting with its new crypto wallet. Unfortunately for now Opera is only supporting Ethereum. Opera plans to add support for more blockchain currencies down the road. +The most mainstream part of the decentralized web stack is payment processing. Instead of payments through credit cards or Paypal, there's Bitcoin, Ethereum and others. This is what Opera is supporting with its new Crypto Wallet. Unfortunately for now Opera is only supporting Ethereum. Opera plans to add support for more blockchain currencies down the road. There's much more to the so-called Web 3 than that though. For every bit of the traditional website stack there is a blockchain-based equivalent. For example instead of Amazon S3 for file storage, there's IPFS or Filecoin. Similarly instead of Amazon EC2 for computational needs, a decentralized app built on Ethereum might use Truebit. @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Flow is more immediate, doesn't require setting up an account and doesn't run th The only downside to Flow is that you can only send things back and forth from Opera Touch, not Opera Mini. -Once you get beyond headlining features Opera has some very nice little tools that make everyday browsing better. I'm a fan of the power-saving mode known as Battery Saver. By default its disabled, but you can head to settings and enable the toolbar button so you can easily toggle Battery Saver on and off. Battery Saver causes Opera to make some background optimizations like limiting animations and limiting tab and plugin activity. Opera claims laptop batteries last 35 percent longer with its battery saver on. +Once you get beyond headlining features Opera has some very nice little tools that make everyday browsing better. I'm a fan of the power-saving mode known as Battery Saver. By default it's disabled, but you can head to settings and enable the toolbar button so you can easily toggle Battery Saver on and off. Battery Saver causes Opera to make some background optimizations like limiting animations and limiting tab and plugin activity. Opera claims laptop batteries last 35 percent longer with its battery saver on. Opera's chat sidebar is another nice feature for those who like to keep their various instant messaging accounts easily at hand, but not taking up a tab in the browser. Opera's chat sidebar works with WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and VK. |