#New in opera beta for android#

So how does it compare against Chrome? Quite well, actually. If you want to improve page loading speed even further and also save some data while doing it, you can enable the Off-road mode, which basically turns the browser into Opera mini, compressing all the data and routing it through a proxy server to your device. It uses similar font rendering as Chrome, so text appears larger than usual so that it fits the width of the display easily when you zoom in. You can also open a private tab so that your browsing history isnвЂ™t logged.Д«rowsing performance on the new beta was quite satisfactory and not too different than what you see on Chrome or stock Android browser. The tab menu changed and now shows larger thumbnails for each of the open tab. The homescreen has three tabs, speed dial, for quickly accessing your most used sites, history and a discover tab where you will find interesting articles curated by Opera. The new version moves the UI to the top and places all options into a button on the top right corner. We decided to give it a try and see how it compares against Chrome.Д«efore we get to the benchmarks, letвЂ™s talk about the new UI.

#New in opera beta for android#

Opera has now released a beta version of a new browser for Android that uses this WebKit engine. WebKit is the same engine that powers browsers such as Safari, Chrome and the stock Android browser. A few weeks ago, we heard that Opera was planning on switching over the open source WebKit engine to power its mobile browser on the Android platform, instead of the Presto engine it is currently using.