Posted on 05/28/2025 2:50:30 PM PDT by Openurmind
Opera unveiled Opera Neon today, a fully agentic browser. Opera Software describes it as a browser that is "designed to understand your intent, assist with tasks, and take actions".
If you have been with us for at least a decade, you may remember that Opera Software launched Opera Neon back in 2017 already as a concept browser. This old concept browser has little in common with the new, other than that it is also pushing into new territories.
Neon goes further than current AI integrations in browsers according to Opera Software. While it supports AI-based chats, getting summaries of webpages, and all those features, it is pushing the idea of agentic browsing.
Put plainly, users may use the AI for certain tasks, like planning and booking holidays, do some shopping, run research operations, code, create games for them and more.
Opera integrated an AI into the browser natively. This is one of the core differences to Google's integration of Gemini in Chrome or Microsoft's integration of Copilot in Edge.
Opera Software highlights that the AI operates natively in the browser, so that everything stays private and local. At least, that is what the description makes it sound like.
The browser's agentic AI capabilities are grouped into the three main areas Chat, Do, and Make. Chat delivers mostly what users can do using other AI integrations already, including chatting with the AI or creating images. You do get tab management capabilities on top of that.
Do is where feature sets diverge heavily. Opera Neon's AI agent can browse the web autonomously based on the tasks that you give it. Opera Software notes that the AI can handle repetitive tasks, such as signing up on websites or buying something, for the user.
Make finally refers to the abilities of the AI to create something based on user input. Opera says it works across formats, text, data, visuals, and code, and that it can, among other things, write long-form content or code.
#11 I wish all web browsers on a cell phone would wrap lines as is done on a desktop pc browser as I zoom the text but they expand beyond the edges even in Opera and I have Text wrap turned on.
“Opera Software describes it as a browser that is “designed to understand your intent, assist with tasks, and take actions”
Hmm... this means it would open all the xxx websites for me automatically....
Google search: why don’t cell phone web browsers wrap text?
AI results:
Cell phone web browsers generally don’t automatically wrap text when you zoom in because of a few reasons. Some browsers, like Opera and some older versions of Android, used to have text wrapping/reflow, but Google removed it in 2013
Or auto order from Amazon because it just “knows” you want that product...
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