Opera: My Way To Store, Organise and Share Bookmarks

I’ve always been interested in the latest shiny thing so when I was asked to review Opera’s feature-filled latest release, Opera 26, I jumped at the chance.
Opera, like it’s musical counterpart, has always been the choice of aficionados. It doesn’t come included with your operating system and nor is it peddled by the world’s largest search provider. You have to make the conscious choice to be an Opera user. And oh are you rewarded for that choice.

In countless performance tests, Opera comes out ahead. Opera is often the first of the major browsers to implement new features — it had tabbed browsing 6 years before Internet Explorer — and seems determined to continue this tradition. While the gaps have closed between modern browsers — especially when it comes to how they render webpages — there is still room for them to differentiate.
I’ve come to appreciate Opera more and more as I’ve used it. Everyone knows Opera is fast and stable. What I’ve grown to love is the interface and their innovative takes on Speed Dial and Bookmarks.

The Interface

The latest version of Opera is gorgeous. I checked it out on both OS X Yosemite and the Windows 10 Technical Preview, and I really liked how it respected the design conventions of both operating systems. Other browsers are guilty of ignoring the OS style and having the same design across every platform. It’s great to see Opera tweak the design of their browser to fit in with whatever OS you’re running. Few things look uglier than an app that’s clearly designed for one platform being forced to run on another.
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Aside from the platform specific changes, the underlying design is the same. It’s clean, minimalist and very pretty. There is little to distract you from the web content. The interface of the Speed Dial, Discover and Bookmarks sections is also stunning. They’ve gone with a flat, tile-based design reminiscent of Windows 8. It works great.

Speed Dial

If you’ve ever tried to create a bookmarks bar filled with favicons to quickly navigate between your favourite sites, you’ll know it just doesn’t work. The targets are too small and the bookmarks bar looks ugly and takes up precious screen-space. Opera pioneered Speed Dial back in 2007. It’s a customisable grid on the new tab page for the websites you visit most frequently.
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