![]() ![]() 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. That compares with 507 for Chrome, 466 for Firefox, and 460 for Edge, so, not too shabby.Ī quick run of the Octane 2.0 benchmark showed Neon respectable in JavaScript performance, too. When you come upon a webpage that plays music or videos, the second icon in Neon's left toolbar comes alive, letting you pause playing or view video in a small window while you look at other webpages.Īs far as website compatibility, the browser was able to send notifications from Facebook, and it scores 499 on the site, which measures how many Web standards a browser supports. After that, you can adjust the pages' relative widths, similar to Windows 10's Snap Assist window view. In Neon, you can't resize page windows, but you can drag tab circles to the top of the window to effect a side-by-side view. Side-by-side webpage viewing is something we've only seen recently in Vivaldi, which comes from one of Opera's original founders. This could be useful but Edge goes further in letting you annotate the copied portion, and offers slicker ways to share the result. 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 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 (Opens in a new window) 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. Interface is somewhat counterintuitive and inflexible in places.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. ![]()
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