Opera today revealed the new Opera One browser, which will replace the company’s current flagship desktop browser later this year. Opera One brings with it a handful of changes, including an updated user interface, integration with AI chatbots, and tab management features.
Opera One has an updated design, featuring more rounded shapes for UI elements, such as tabs, address bar, and sidebar. This is not, however, a complete redesign, as much of the user interface and especially the design and layout of the menus is identical to the current version of the browser.
Opera claims that Opera One is the first major Chromium-based browser to implement the multithreaded compositor. This improves performance for UI animations, of which the new browser has quite a few.
The other new feature in Opera One is something Opera calls Tab Islands. This is a tab management feature found on some other browsers that allows you to create groups of tabs. These groups can be opened or collapsed to save space and categorize open sites. Islands of tabs can be set up to create groups automatically whenever a link from the current site is opened in a new tab or can be created manually by dragging tabs around. Groups can be saved or closed together.
Finally, Opera has also integrated ChatGPT and ChatSonic into its sidebar feature which allows you to open both services in a small side window. There is also a built-in AI Prompts feature that provides suggestions for shortening the article, highlighting the point, creating a tweet, creating an idea for a meme, etc. on the current page content using one of the above services and these options change on a per-page basis.
Other than that, Opera One in its current form isn’t a huge departure from the existing Opera browser. Sure, it’s a bit of a buzzword salad, with things like AI and modularity being introduced for good measure (Opera was also one of the first to jump on the crypto hype train). The browser is currently available in an “early access” version and will replace the standard Opera for Windows, macOS and Linux later this year.
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