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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Opera GX drops new pack of features which simplifies browsing
The new update improves multitasking efficiency, allowing you to work with multiple tabs. Opera GX's new tab management features keep gamers focused and organized, reducing the frustration of managing numerous open tabs. The update also integrates Bluesky directly into the Opera GX sidebar. OSLO, Norway, May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Opera GX has released its new update, providing users with a pack of enhanced tab management capabilities and improved multitasking features. The update allows for side-by-side tab viewing, easy tracing of recently visited pages, and the function to organize related tabs into collapsible groups. Additionally, the update integrates Bluesky directly into the Opera GX sidebar. New tab management features makes Opera GX a perfect gaming browser Tired of juggling countless tabs while gaming or streaming? Opera GX's new update is here to change your browsing experience, boosting your productivity and enhancing your focus. Say goodbye to endless tab switching, as browsing just got a lot smoother and more fun. Experience easy multitasking: Compare your online toon gear guide and check stats simultaneously. Opera GX's new update allows you to split your screen and view two web pages side-by-side. This eliminates the frustration of constantly switching windows or tabs, improving your multitasking workflow. You can now maintain your focus on the task at hand, without the distractions of hunting for the right tab. Just drag and drop a tab to arrange your workspace exactly how you like it! Never lose track of your tabs again: For those who frequently open numerous tabs, this new update makes it incredibly easy to find what you need, quickly. Opera GX makes it simple to retrace your five last steps and instantly access recently visited pages. This is especially helpful during gaming sessions, ensuring you can easily switch between your game and character builds without losing your place. Organize your tabs like a pro: Juggling multiple web pages, streams, and game guides? A new update lets you group related tabs together into easily collapsible islands. Think of it like organizing your in-game inventory, but for your web browsing. This keeps your workspace clutter-free and allows you to concentrate on what truly matters. Keep your multiple search results for different games on dedicated islands. Add a touch of personality: New playful feature allows you to add emojis to your tabs for quick and easy visual identification. Whether you prefer a skull, fire, or eggplant emoji, you can choose to easily spot a Twitch stream, meme page, playlists, or anything else. Opera GX has also integrated Bluesky app directly into the sidebar, keeping conversations and updates just a click away. This keeps you connected without disrupting your workflow. Opera GX already has Discord, Twitch, WhatsApp, X, TikTok, and Instagram built into the sidebar. The new Opera GX update is available now. To test the Tab Emoji and Tab Islands, simply enable Early Bird in your Opera GX Settings to get started. The rest of the features – like Split Screen, Tab Traces, and Bluesky – have already been updated to the stable version of Opera GX. New features in Opera GX Description Split-Screen View two tabs side-by-side for enhanced multitasking. To use it, simply drag a tab down to connect it to either side of your current tab, or select two tabs, right-click, and choose Create Split Screen from the context menu. Tab Traces Quickly access your five most recently used tabs. Tab Traces appears automatically when there are at least 30 tabs opened. You can change the minimum number of tabs required to display this tab tracing feature in Settings. Tab Islands Organize related tabs into collapsible groups for a streamlined workspace. Tab Islands, which are Opera's take on automated and context-dependent tab grouping, are created automatically when links from a page are opened in new tabs (either manually by using a context menu), or if the page opens new tabs. You can then collapse or expand these islands as needed for space. Tab Emoji Add one of hundreds of available emojis to your tab groups for easy visual identification. Bluesky integration Access the Bluesky app directly from the Opera GX sidebar. Download Opera GX by visiting About Opera GX Since its inception in 2019, Opera GX has quickly become the browser of choice for gaming enthusiasts seeking a more customized internet experience. Only Opera GX allows users to fully personalize the browser with over 9,000 mods, transforming its look, themes, and audio effects to match their preferences. And with CPU, RAM, and Network Bandwidth limiters, GX minimizes resource usage to optimize gaming with additional tools like Hot Tabs Killer for managing resource-heavy tabs and GX Cleaner for clearing unwanted files. About Opera Opera is a user-centric and innovative software company focused on enabling the best possible internet browsing experience across all devices. Hundreds of millions use Opera web browsers for their unique and secure features on mobile phones and desktop computers. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Opera is a public company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol OPRA. Download the Opera web browsers and other Opera products from Learn more about Opera at View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Opera Limited Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Opera Shares Jump as Forecast Is Music to Investors' Ears. But Is It Too Late to Buy the Stock?
Opera is seeing strong advertising growth. The company also has a nice hidden asset on its balance sheet with OPay. The stock looks cheap given its current growth. Shares of Opera (NASDAQ: OPRA) rose after the web browser operator saw a huge jump in revenue and issued upbeat guidance. While the stock is down year to date, its shares are up more than 20% over the past year. For those unfamiliar with Opera, the company operates a portfolio of web and mobile browsers that are designed to optimize speed and battery life. Its browsers have been particularly popular in emerging markets, although lately it has been more focused on adding higher-valued users from developed markets. On this front, its fastest-growing browser is Opera GX, which is designed to optimize gaming performance. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Continue » Opera makes money in two main ways. The first is simply through advertising and its Opera ad platform. It also has a revenue-sharing agreement with Google, where it gets a portion of the ad revenue when people use one of its built-in search bars. Let's take a closer look at the company's Q1 results to see if the stock's momentum can continue. For the first quarter, Opera saw its revenue surge 40% to $142.7 million. That was well ahead of its Q1 guidance for revenue of between $130 million to $133 million. Advertising revenue soared 63% to $95.6 million, while search revenue climbed 8% to $46.6 million. The company also recorded $500,000 in technology licensing revenue. The growth in advertising was led by e-commerce, which the company said offset typical seasonality. Revenue from the vertical more than doubled. Meanwhile, it still sees the U.S. e-commerce industry as having a lot of growth ahead. It also noted that its advertising revenue is performance-based as opposed to brand advertising, and as such, expects it will be more resilient during any period of economic weakness. With search revenue, meanwhile, the company said it was successfully leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to more effectively identify user intent, which was allowing it to "optimize the click stream." Demonstrating the company's focus on higher-valued users, its annualized average revenue per user (ARPU) soared 45% year over year to $1.94. Its number of monthly active users (MAU) fell 4% year over year from 304 million to 293 million. However, Opera GX, its highest monetizing browser, saw its user base grow 14% in the quarter to 34 million MAUs. The company also noted that its new Opera Air browser, targeting Western users, was downloaded 500,000 times in its first two months. The browser was designed to integrate science-backed mindfulness to reduce digital stress and promote focus. Also on the innovation front, Opera has turned to agentic AI with its Browser Operator. The company said that while users are still in control, the browser could help with things such as making travel bookings and even ordering flowers to a particular hotel room. The company said in a live demo it was able to book a trip to Lisbon, Portugal; find a Portuguese florist; and fill a shopping cart with the specified flowers, along with all relevant delivery and payment information, all with English prompts. The user then just had to click the final checkout. On the profitability front, Opera's adjusted EPS rose 35% to $0.27 and adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) climbed 29% to $32.3 million. Looking ahead, the company forecast Q2 revenue to rise by around 24% to between $134 million to $138 million. It projected adjusted EBITDA to increase by 23% to a range of $30 million to $32 million. It also boosted its full year guidance. The company now expects revenue to range from $567 million to $582 million, representing a 20% annual growth at the midpoint. That's up from a prior revenue outlook of between $555 million to $570 million. It's now looking for adjusted EBITDA of between $135 million to $145 million, up from a prior range of $132 million to $138 million. Opera was optimistic it would be able to navigate the current uncertain macro environment and political tensions. It also thinks any open competition that results from big tech antitrust cases could be a long-term opportunity. Trading a forward price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 14.6 times this year's analyst estimates with 20% projected revenue growth, Opera stock is not expensive. The company also has $103.5 million in net cash and an investment in OPay valued at $258.3 million on its balance sheet. OPay is a fast-growing fintech company that provides digital financial services in Africa, primarily in Nigeria. Previously, Opera had to increase the carrying value of its Opay investment due to the rapid expansion of its customer base. Opera expects OPay to grow its revenue at a 35% annual rate between 2023 and 2030. Opera owns more than a 9% stake in OPay, which is a nice asset some investors may not know about. Given its strong advertising growth, inexpensive valuation, and investment in OPay, Opera looks like a solid stock to own at current levels. Before you buy stock in Opera, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Opera wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Yahoo
Opera has unveiled 'the world's first browser with mindfulness at its core' and, to my surprise, I might be convinced
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Opera, the company behind the gaming browser Opera GX, has just released the early access release of Opera Air, which Opera calls "the world's first browser with mindfulness at its core". With a less cluttered UI than its gaming counterpart and built-in binaural beats, I've tested it today and I see the vision. I feel my chakras more than ever while I'm searching the web for opinions on video games, thoughtful comments on articles, and the latest news from around the globe. Opera Air looks rather similar to Opera's other browsers but the main differences lie in two features: Boost, which are binaural beats-enhanced songs right in the browser itself that you leave playing while you do work (or doom scroll); and Breaks, which are meditation exercises to encourage mindfulness. Before Opera Air, I was stressed, anxious, tired. After Opera Air, I am still all those things but I have a pretty new browser and feel just a little better. Having used Opera GX on and off for the last few months, I like many of the features of the browser but it can feel a bit cluttered thanks to the level of customisation. Opera Air, which you can download and test for yourself right now is the antithesis of this. Opera Air is simple and clean. Once downloaded, you pick a theme and start browsing. Those themes are all very natural, like stones on grass or floating bubbles (okay, those bubbles are man-made but you get the point). In Speed Dial, which is essentially your home screen, you only start with a few pinned websites and they all fit a similar theme. Mindful, Headspace, Calm, Behance, Penzu, and Medium. All of these apps are focused on mindfulness and introspection, be it via writing or meditation. As is Opera's MO, you can customise your home screen apps but the selection at the start isn't too shabby. There is a strange irony in the announcement for Opera Air saying it has 'no subscriptions', then adding multiple subscription paywalled apps to the Speed Dial but they're still a decent selection of websites. The Boost feature has a solid selection of song loops, and you can customize how loud the track, ambient sounds, and binaural beats are, which means you can fine-tune your experience. The Creativity Boost sound in Boost has rhythmic water drops, which I only started noticing as I started to write this sentence. I don't quite know if they make me any more productive but it's certainly a relaxing experience. They also pause automatically when another sound comes out of your browser, making Boost quite intuitive throughout the flow of the day. In the Breaks feature, you can customise sets of exercises or meditation. They are narrated with a voice, pause when you click away, and some of them even use your camera to register if you are correctly doing them. It's a frankly bizarre experience, but one that made me feel better afterwards. Engaging in mindfulness exercises can make you feel a bit silly, especially in an office full of people writing, but Opera Air encourages light mindfulness a surprising amount given it's, well, a browser. Opera Air has surprised me just enough to make me want to use it for a little longer. I don't know if I can reasonably ask for any more. Best gaming PC: The top pre-built gaming laptop: Great devices for mobile gaming.
