Opera Browser Gets a Makeover!

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.

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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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[Via: CyberNet]

This post was published by on June 6, 2008

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  • http://www.seoresults.co.za SEO Man

    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

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    The overall effect is rather soothing but am unable to really figure out the full details.

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab

    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.

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    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!

  • http://green-flamingo.com Nathaniel

    I have never seen Opera before, but this version looks pretty sweet.

  • http://www.deemx.com DeeMX

    Opera browser looks like clean and accuracy. I like it for this. I don’t like any themes instead standards.

  • http://tictechtoc.blogspot.com Shashi Kant

    Firefox is the best. No new theme will take over that fact.

  • http://in-ess.net/ div^

    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

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Shashi Kant: Agreed, but Opera has it’s own set of fans. Personally, I use more Firefox than Opera

  • http://www.technologycurrent.com Julian

    I want to know that the differences are between Opera and Firefox, i was under the impression that they had the same creators… Not sure why.

  • http://www.jongtjienfa.nl Marcel Jong

    I find this new black look awful! Opera is my main browser but I need to get rid of this new look.

  • http://technodorm.com Fahad

    I like the theme!
    I have tried several themes for firefox but none have really impressed me. But I dont really care too much for themes….

  • http://www.deemx.com DeeMX

    My primary browser is FireFox, but I use Opera very often. I like new Opera design, it looks like clean!

  • RushJunkie

    I have just switched to Opera because a friend told me about it. I Hate IExplorer and FireFox has to many Bugs in it. I will say that FireFox has a lot more add-ons and Themes than Opera does. I do however like this new theme Opera came out with. I will be using the Opera browser for a while to give it a fair try before I decide which I like the best. Now that I figured out how to activate the Spell Checker I am very pleased.