One of the biggest gaming expos, E3 2019, saw game publishers taking the wraps off the latest projects they’ve been working on – be it Keanu Reeve’s appearance in Cyberpunk 2077 or the Avengers A-Day gameplay experience. Well, Opera decided to join the party with a new browser announcement and this time around, it isn’t a take on the future of browsing experience, but a gaming browser of all things, called Opera GX.
Of course, the user interface of the Opera browser has gotten a facelift. You cannot come out with a gaming browser without having a dark theme pre-applied and some RGB colors in the mix. And Opera GX does exactly that. You now have a neon-colored highlight running all across the frame of the browser, which, paired along with the dark theme looks absolutely stunning. It comes with a red accent out-of-the-box.
Opera GX also has an “easy setup” option available at the right-most corner, next to the address bar and it gives users the power to tweak how the browser looks and feels. You can literally change the appearance of your gaming browser and choose everything from the accent color, wallpaper, themes, and a lot more. This feature is available in Opera as well, but it more feels more fleshed out and game-centric here. I sure fancy it.
Gaming-centric Features
One of the reasons that I’ve stuck by Opera for the past couple of years is the number of add-on features that it has to offer. You get a free and unlimited VPN service, a complete ad-blocker, a crypto-currency wallet, Instant search, and an Airdroid-like sharing feature – all of them baked right into the browser. There’s also easy access to instant messengers right from this sidebar, which is great.
CPU and RAM Usage Limiter
Gamers require all the power that their PC has to offer while gaming and this sometimes means quitting the memory-hungry browser or other apps running in the background. If that’s a problem you face often, well, Opera GX is made for you as you can set CPU and RAM limits for the browser. Yeah, you can set the maximum amount of RAM and CPU that your gaming browser can use up.
I really like this feature and have already set the limits to 50% on each, but there’s also one piece of feedback here. I would like for Opera GX to offer a usage monitoring option within this section to help me better understand when the browser overshoots the limits. Is it while a certain number of tabs are open (whose number we can learn) or while some website it open or loaded? Wouldn’t that be great?
GX Corner
One of the things that make Opera GX the world’s first gaming browser is the GX Corner. Opera defines it as a destination for staying up-to-date with all new game releases, deals, and news from across the globe – especially gaming news for the fanatics.
Twitch Integration
Apart from linking straight to official game listings, Opera GX also comes with a Twitch integration out-of-the-box. If you’ve ever used Opera, then you would know that the sidebar houses messenger pop-up windows that can be used over your existing window. Well, Twitch sits in one of these overlapping sidebar windows and once you’ve logged in, Opera GX should send you notifications for when channels you’ve followed go live.
