


You can adjust the colors to create a custom theme, add an animated background, have background music, splash screens, and even sync your chroma to it. This feature is still in beta form, so you may encounter the occasional site that doesn’t quite work, but for a large majority of the internet it will work just fine.Ĭustomizing the look of Opera is also pretty fun and comprehensive. Opera GX (from here on out referred to as “Opera”) makes this a possibility for every site with an option for “Force dark mode”. When setting up a browser (or anything to be honest) I first set it up in dark mode because I prefer my retinas to remain unscathed when I inevitably go online at 3 am when I tell myself I’m going to bed early. You can also set your default search engine easily with options such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and even DuckDuckGo and Amazon.īetween being able to import all of my data, not being forced to use an in-house search engine, and a whole host of other customization options, I was genuinely surprised and will now hold every browser to this standard from today on. Opera GX was super easy to move to since you can import all of your bookmarks, favorites, and saved passwords from Chrome with a single click of a button. Let’s get this ball rolling with how easy it was to make the switch. Actually, I’m using it right now to write this article.

To keep this article totally transparent and accurate, I am obviously not sponsored or affiliated with Opera in any way and my review is after about a month of daily use. Admittedly, like many other users, Google Chrome has been my go-to for many many years, so to earn the coveted “Default Browser” position, Opera GX would have to really make and impact. BY DIA ALTIERI: First announced on the same day of E3 2019, Opera GX finally went into early access February 2021.
