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Opera has been around for 22 years, but has never claimed more than a 6% share of the browser market.

Addons are often the biggest hogs, but it still makes Chrome less stable than other browsers. A fourth S – speed – is also a given, with Chrome narrowly beating Vivaldi to the top spot in our performance test.Ĭhrome’s biggest flaw is its memory usage – it uses a separate background process for every tab, plugin and extension, which soon adds up and can lead to pages hanging and crashing. Being able to search Google from your address bar and easily sync all your bookmarks, history, passwords, tabs and other data across all your devices is incredibly useful, and we like that the browser now warns you about dubious sites changes to your settings and harmful software.
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In its favour, Chrome has many useful built-in tools that work unobtrusively, including a form filler, spellchecker and password manager, and Google features such as Translate and voice control.Īside from extensions, Chrome thrives on three S’s: search, sync and security. There’s certainly an element of "if ain’t broke, don’t fix it" to this approach, but it also makes Chrome seem unadventurous compared to other browsers including Vivaldi and Opera. The sheer variety is astounding, although Chrome’s reliance on third-party tools has made the browser itself less innovative in recent years, especially since switching to a "rapid release cycle" that means new versions rarely bring many major changes.
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Simplicity is Google Chrome’s greatest strength: rather than overload the browser with features, it lets you choose what to install from the vast Chrome Web Store of extensions and themes. Also, some elements seem like works in progress rather than finished features. We’d like to see syncing options and a version of Vivaldi for mobile devices – both are apparently "in the works" – and fewer entries preinstalled in the browser’s Bookmarks. This initially feels confusing, as buttons are still labelled "Add to Chrome", but all the addons we tried worked perfectly in Vivaldi. Vivaldi doesn’t have its own extensions site, but instead lets you get them from the Chrome Web Store. In our speed test, it came a close second for page-loading times, and it feels smooth and stable as you browse. It also gives you impressive control over your privacy settings, and lets you clear all your private data in one go. Most browsers support keyboard shortcuts, but Vivaldi goes one step further by letting you create your own. Web pages can be displayed in pull-out panels, navigated using mouse gestures, annotated for future reference, captured with the screenshot tool, grouped into tab "stacks" to save space or tiled to view them side by side. When you first run Vivaldi, you’re invited to choose from six attractive themes, decide the position of your tab bar (top, left, right or bottom) and set a background wallpaper. Dig deeper and you’ll discover manner of clever features, customisation options and time-saving tricks. Its default interface might not look particularly groundbreaking, but that doesn’t mean the browser is derivative or old-fashioned. While most browsers now mimic the pared-down design of Chrome, Vivaldi more closely resembles older versions of Opera.
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If you took Neon for a spin on Windows and/or macOS let us know what features you hope to see Opera port over.It was a close race for the top spot in our roundup, but in the end we gave it to a bright new hope. Aside from Opera, Chrome/ium and Firefox we have Epiphany (GNOME Web), Midori, Qupzilla, Min, Vivaldi, Rekonq, the Ubuntu web-browser app… and so on. Those of us on Linux aren’t short of alternative web-browsers.

“Right now Neon is a fun project that our developers were working on & we’re not planning to develop it further,” the company says in a tweet, and add that they plan “to add the best features to the regular browser so they’ll also be available for all Linux users”. Right now Neon is a fun project that our developers were working on & we're not planning to develop it further. It seems, in spite of a positive reception by the press (something Opera doesn’t get much of), that Neon is just a one-shot: What’s interesting is the reason why Opera say won’t be a Linux build. And their answer - brace yourselves - is a negative: there won’t be a Linux version: The company did -thankfully- reply to someone else who asked about Linux support. Hey are there any plans for a #Linux version of #OperaNeon? (Like this tweet if you want to see one too! ❤️ )

We reached out to Opera ourselves a couple of times for word on or whiff of Linux support. Sadly, Neon wasn’t made available to download on Linux.

Neon is fast, blingy, and a little bit gimmicky, but does some neat new stuff that has gotten a lot of people quite excited.
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Opera Software debuted an all-new concept browser called Opera Neon yesterday.
