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Seems like the browser makers are getting a little more focused on look and feel. Remember when Mozilla dumped their cross-platform theme and designed different themes for every operating system? Opera Browser is the newest browser to join the bandwagon. Opera has been having the same theme for several years now, and a makeover was needed. They’ve released a preview build of Opera 9.5 featuring the new theme called "Sharp". It has been designed in a way to not steal any focus from your browsing and gathers inspirations from high end video/audio equipments.
As you can see from the screenshot, they’ve decided to go metallic black this time. The theme as a whole looks pretty sharp and clean, but there are a few exceptions. The reload button looks odd for the skin; it’s green and stands out of the black interface. I found the tabs close button to be very small, for some odd reason, it has been aligned to the top, instead of center (like all other browsers).
What do you feel about the new theme? Tell us through comments.
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wrote, on June 7th, 2008
Looks much better than previously, must say that Firefox is my browser of choice and it will take a lot more than this offering to sway my allegiance. Opera is not very popular in South Africa
wrote, on June 7th, 2008
The overall effect is rather soothing but am unable to really figure out the full details.
wrote, on June 7th, 2008
Opera is my primary browser, and has been so for a long long time. I love the skin but has some small issues. The tab bar is too thick, close button is too small and the positioning of new tab button is bad.
I had blogged about this earlier today.
Anyway, desktop team just released another build with a more polished version of the skin. Do check that out.
wrote, on June 7th, 2008
I’m running a very dark grey theme at the moment, so quite like the new one on show. Certainly find it easier on my old eyes!
wrote, on June 7th, 2008
I have never seen Opera before, but this version looks pretty sweet.
wrote, on June 7th, 2008
Opera browser looks like clean and accuracy. I like it for this. I don’t like any themes instead standards.
wrote, on June 7th, 2008
Firefox is the best. No new theme will take over that fact.
wrote, on June 7th, 2008
It would be very good seeing a new Theme for Opera. It´s a nice browser and the theme is nice, but you just get bored looking on it from time to time.
I guess they just want to fit the Windows Vista feeling a bit more with those black bars.
Regards