Think revolutionary
Neon, a concept browser by Opera
You know, I fell in love with Opera when I found the stability and design of their products as something built on the shoulders of the giants: it is Safari, Mozilla, Chrome, Apple/Webkit compatible and it is so stable to be a valid alternative for professional use. And that’s all for me as a digital-nomad-like guy.
Light years ahead of every other platform
Floating design elements, split screens, intelligent tabs, a crop-the-image feature built-in with easy of access, a tab to control for the music and videos in background, Opera Neon is probably the most innovative browser available, light years ahead of every other browser on the market, light years ahead of the current stable Opera release.
I will not go for all the characteristics, because they are well illustrated in the official Opera Neon website (from which you can download and preview the application). I want to talk about the top three reasons to believe it is truly a fresh-air breath for digital consumers all around the world.
1. Feast for your eyes
Tab-bars are dead, long live bubbles! Exactly as crazy as this sentence, you have a lot of bubbles representing your history, your favorites (and they update along your normal navigation no extra commands needed!) and your current active tabs. Why this is pure genius? Because they’re immediate, your eye is just more relaxed recognizing logos and images than titles.
And above all, gravity layouts and lightweight and well crafted transitions used to render and animate the Opera Neon window are the keys to a solid alternative to classic browsers layouts.
2. Free your mind
To be honest modern browsers are really straight-forward: you only need to understand basic tabs commands and you can conquer the web. But sometimes the most simple tasks are not designed with user experience in mind: Neon provides vary handful shortcuts to crop, save photos, listen to music and watch videos, intelligent download management, as well as a new system to view your navigation. From simple research to side-to-side tabs and split screens, Neon is designed to free your mind and save your time from the complexity of everyday web-centric frenetic lives.
3. Future begins
Finally, Neon is a challenge. It is a way to give a stand to a very important aspect of our future: we are going to live in a world in which a ubiquitous access to the Internet will be the key aspect of our professional tasks and spare time. And Neon is designed to provide integration, design, speed of execution to this future.
I am aware it is only a concept browser, but it is a very good point of view on what is just round the corner. And I am loving what is expecting us.
