Kocemba was happy to announce that Opera GX is the first browser to enjoy a fully animated boot logo too. There’s an animated startup logo with a little auditory note like the logos before a game loads. The browser is immediately visually distinct from its contemporaries with a murky and brooding color palette that gives it the look and feel of gaming keyboards, mice, and laptops, which are far more dark and colorful than the beige computers of decades past.

What began as a joke project for that subset of the Opera team to enjoy among themselves became something far more real before long, and today, we have Opera GX to show for it. That’s where the gamers within Opera’s developer team came up with the idea of a browser for gamers.

If you want a hammer, it has to be a hammer and not also a screwdriver.” “If something is good for everybody, then sometimes you say it is good for nobody. They should be as accessible, as fast, as beautiful, for anybody,” Opera’s product manager, Maciej Kocemba told Digital Trends. “All browsers at the moment are meant to be general purpose tools. This is a browser for gamers, which means it not only looks and even sounds like the RGB peripherals most gaming systems come equipped with in 2019, but has some extra features designed with gamers in mind too.

It’s not a “gaming browser” in that will let you stream games using Google Stadia or something similar – although that is a door Opera is leaving firmly wedged open in case it becomes possible in the future. This new branch of the Opera browser isn’t decidedly different from the mainstream one it’s built on. Performance doesn’t change, unless you want it to.

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