13 hours Ago By Paul Thurrott
Opera this week announced the biggest-ever refresh of its Opera GX web browser for gamers, with a new design and several new features. “Forget everything you thought you knew about how a browser should look,” . “Opera GX’s new ‘Underwave’ design language feels like it was pulled straight out of a futuristic game.
We’re talking sleek, dynamic radial gradients, transparent elements, and minimalistic borders that give your browser depth and dimension. It’s smooth, it’s fresh, and it’s designed to make every interaction feel like part of a game’s user interface. Moreover it’s easy to navigate and keeps things simple so you don’t have to relearn how to use your browser.
” Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! In addition to the new design, Opera GX also provides more customization than ever: Opera claims you can customize , from the browser interface to the light and dark themes, sounds and music in the background, the opacity and blur of tabs and sidebars, and a lot more. The browser now includes new modding features, too, so you can transform your browser with different fonts, icons, screenshot stickers, splash screens, sidebars, and so, and you can create presets of specific mods and switch between them.
As for new features, there’s MidnightFX that reduces blue light exposure and adjusts page contrast, making the web gentler on the eyes during late night gaming and browsing sessions; a new Multithreaded Compositor that makes the UI engine faster and smoother; a Focus mode with contrast control; new tabs features; and more. . Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books.
He is the owner of and the host of three tech podcasts: with Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell, , and with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows from 1999 to 2014 and the Major Domo of Thurrott.com while at BWW Media Group from 2015 to 2023.
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