Opera Neon

Opera Neon is an experimental web browser introduced for Mac and Windows users with some innovative features and enhancements that provide a glimpse of how browsers of the future would look like.

Pros

• Powerful media tools
• Innovative design
• Light on resources

Cons

• Serious privacy and security concerns
• Quite slow
• Doesn’t update

Though not intended to replace the flagship browser, Opera Neon serves as a testing platform for new features which are, at times, added to the main application. The experimental browser is available for desktops and works for Windows and macOS. This version reboots the popular Opera features like Speed Dial, Omnibox, and visual tabs. It also removes clutter by bringing the wallpaper from your desktop to the browser screen.

Opera Neon offers a built-in snap-to-gallery tool where you can collect the images you love. It also lets you bring together your media-playing tabs in a dedicated panel. The browser also embeds fresh design concepts to change the way you experience the web. Tabs use colorful images from the web pages to help you quickly locate the page you want. The gravity system pulls the most-used tabs to the top on the Speed Dial.

With this modern browser, you can browse two pages at once by dragging the tabs and moving the pointer between them. A video player organizes your music-playing tabs and videos into a single panel while the pop-out feature allows popping out videos into a dedicated window so that you can watch your favorite channels while browsing the internet.

Final Verdict

Opera Neon is an interesting, intuitive browser alternative that offers some powerful features to enhance your web experience. While it tries to improve convenience and ease of use, there are some serious flaws like lack of updates, ad-blocker, and warnings for insecure connections. New features like image gallery, video player, and split-screen are great additions that make up for these problems.