

The Opera GX's Chroma-enabled color control lets you pick from custom colors or design your own. The game experience will be degraded. We're a browser company, so we can fight that problem." But what happens if you're browsing and you're playing games at the same time? In that case, the browser is the game's worst enemy. "They take as much CPU as possible to make your browsing as fast and smooth as possible.

"If you think about browsers, they are not very polite," Kocemba said. It can just be your main browser while you game. The gamer-oriented features are more than just cosmetic, and the company has a brilliant positioning strategy, easing those Google withdrawal pangs for Chrome users (and regular vanilla-flavored Opera, with its built-in ad block and VPN): This doesn't need to be your main browser. I spent some time hands-on with Opera GX, and it's everything you would expect from the Norway browser-and-artificial intelligence company: slick, stylish and speedy. But when we started looking into it more precisely, there were some things we could do for gamers. After a while, we came up with a pretty solid set of changes that were not possible to be achieved by any other browser. It looks fresh, a little bit different, but still very familiar."
