He was referring to the lack of a cross-platform account, which Opera foreswears, but rivals rely on.
" scan a QR to sync," Kocemba said during his on-stage demonstration. While other browsers have long had tab and history synchronization between their mobile and desktop editions - Safari does, Chrome does, so does Firefox - so that open tabs, say, on an iPhone would be replicated on a Windows personal computer, Opera on Wednesday trumpeted the feature as if it were brand new. "In Opera Touch, setting up the connection between your smartphone and your desktop browser takes only one step," according to a statement quoting Kocemba on the new browser-to-browser sync. It also doubles, as shown, as a search tool for sifting through open tabs.īut when the mobile and desktop versions are paired, said Opera, they're more than the sum of their parts. Opera on the desktop – here, running on macOS – sports a new focused search feature, which overlays the search box and results, atop the current web page. The same tool also lets users search through all open tabs with a toggle of - yes, the Tab key - a godsend for those who love to crowd the browser with tons of tabs. A search field opens, accepts input and then the screen displays results, all atop the current web page so users don't have to backtrack after a successful search. A new tool, called "Instant Search," opens with a press of the Alt-space key combination (on Windows and Linux) or Option-space (macOS). "Unlike in most other browsers, you can now more easily browse and search the web when on the move," Kocemba added in an accompanying Wednesday post to the company's blog.Īt the same time, Opera updated its desktop browser - editions are available for Windows, macOS and Linux - to also emphasize search.
He then showed how designers had cast the browser's UI (user interface) so that buttons and functions, including search and tabs, are all within reach of the user's thumb. "The current browsers are not doing their job properly," argued Maciej Kocemba, an Opera product manager, during an early-Wednesday live-streamed launch event that was made available later as a recording. The Oslo-based browser maker rolled out Opera Touch, an Android application that features one-hand operation and focuses on search, with the latter dominating the screen as users launch Touch. Opera Software today launched a new mobile browser dubbed Touch and upgraded its desktop browser so that the two can better stay in sync.
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