Opera GX Mobile offers a dedicated section for tracking game news and deal, and is now out as a beta for Android and iOS platforms.
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Opera comes to M1 Mac with new tricks up its sleeve
Opera has announced an update for its Mac Browser. The new update brings Opera’s support to M1 Mac. Moreover, it is touted to deliver a 2x speed bump. Now, it also allows you to set your own keyboard shortcuts to quickly access the Flow feature. The feature is said to connect your computer browser with Opera on iOS and Android.
Opera browser now natively supports the newest line of Apple M1 processors. The company says Opera runs 2 times faster compared to the previous version of the browser – thanks to the quicker load times and transitions. The Flow feature’s connection is an end-to-end encrypted chat with all your devices for sending notes, images, links, files. You can also now create shortcuts to Opera’s built-in Crypto Wallet. Plus, you get a Player feature that acts as a gateway to all your favorites on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music.
To set custom keyboard shortcuts:
- Click the three-dot icon at the bottom of your sidebar
- Click the three-dot icon next to the feature and select Configure shortcuts
- Type your custom shortcut next to the feature
“When you buy a shiny new Mac, one of your key priorities is speed: you want it to load and run apps as smoothly as it can, and you want to be impressed by how seamless the experience is. While marveling at your crisper than ever display, you also want to browse the web with freshness and speed inspired by your brand spanking new Mac. Apple wants you to be happy, and so does Opera, which is why we’ve made your browsing on Macs with M1 even faster,” wrote the company in its blog post.
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Opera 69 for desktop brings Twitter integration in the sidebar
Earlier this year, Opera added Instagram integration in the browser, making it more convenient for users to browse their feed without any hassle. Opera has now introduced version 69 of its eponymous desktop browser, and this one brings a similar built-in Twitter experience within the sidebar.
With the new build, you can now access your Twitter account right from the browser’s sidebar, keep up with your direct messages, launch a quick Twitter search, or just scroll through the timeline in search of some breaking news or a funny meme. All you have to do is enable the sidebar option for Twitter, sign in, and you’re good to go.
Opera already offers built-in access for a few other social media and messaging services such as Instagram, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. Opera 69 also adds a weather widget on the start page that provides location-based weather information, and also improves the visual tab switcher’s layout with larger tiles. You can see the entire Opera 69 changelog here.
Source: Opera
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Opera GX browser gets Discord integration, forced dark mode feature for websites
Opera’s gaming-centric GX browser is now a year old, and to mark the milestone, it is getting a host of new features. The most prominent one is native Discord support in the browser. Users can now access Discord in the browser’s sidebar, which is quite handy for gamers.
In case you’re wondering, the Opera GX browser already offers Twitch, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram integration. The second new feature is called Hot Tabs Killer. It allows users to find tabs that are draining system resources and close them.
Lastly, Opera has also added a new Force Dark Pages feature that automatically applies a dark background to web pages with a bright design. However, this is an opt-in feature and users have to enable it on their own. The Opera GX browser is still in beta, but you can try it here.
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Opera expands free and unlimited VPN services to iPhones and iPads
The least popular of the world’s big five web browsers, according to both W3 and StatCounter, is looking to gain users with a big push for privacy and unrestricted access to social networks and video streaming services.Opera, or rather the Norwegian software company behind it, today announces the iOS launch of an app very recently made available on desktops as well. It’s called Opera VPN, and it unsurprisingly aims to “unblock the web for free.”No more having to pay to change your virtual location to score admission to
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Opera Max converts streaming music to be data efficient
If you don’t have unlimited data and are not on T-Mobile or on any carrier that doesn’t count streaming music toward your data usage, well, you might be closing up other apps just to enjoy streaming some music. Sure, it’s music you don’t have to store, but it’s also a great way to give cellular networks your money.Enter Opera and its Max browser. It’s been optimizing video ...
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Why doesn’t every browser do word wrapping?
Mobile devices used to be primarily portable email boxes with integrated calendar and contacts. In the early days, some of them may have included web browsers, but they were very primitive. Back then the Web was very complex, and designed for screens with resolutions of 800 by 600 and higher. To accommodate phones and PDAs a “new” web was invented, one that used a completely different protocol to address the concerns of much smaller screens, slower processors, and mobile data plans. None of which were anywhere close to what we have today. WAP & WML Continue reading »
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Google Ditching WebKit Over “Blink” For Chrome Browser And OS
For those of you that didn’t know, WebKit powers most if not all mobile web browsers. It was developed by Apple, and was used for the first time in their mobile Safari browser with the first-generation iPhone, which pretty much took on the mobile Internet by storm. Apple’s decision to open-source WebKit has benefited almost every competing device in the market, including Google Chrome and even the old and default Android browser. It made a ton of sense for Apple to do this, since it would allow the world to optimize everything for just one engine, and not start a battle where ...