Comments on: The Emperor’s New Clothes

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:57:24 +0000

I run Windows Native. Always have. Looks great with themes turned off in Windows, looks like a serious business app.

Opera 9.5 is going on all ym desktops. Sticking with IE on my Tablet because Microsoft is the only vendor around who actually makes sure their product is reasonably useable on Tablets. All the keyboard shortcuts, the fancy address bar, etc. etc. are useless on a slate Tablet that has no keyboard at all.

By: Andrey Shchekin

Andrey Shchekin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:18:12 +0000

If one word can describe new look, it would be ‘overdesigned’. The browser chrome should be as little annoying as possible, because browser is about sites, not about itself.

The x button is too small, while it is the second most important thing in the tab header (after the header itself). The look is not even consistent — toolbar looks absolutely different from tabs.

New design just says — look at me, I was done by a cool designer. But good designer does not just throw a bunch of gradients in, he also have to think about what is important and what shoud be more subtle.

This is a first Opera style that forced me to download a custom theme (tango cl).

By: abhakam

abhakam — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:06:56 +0000

the gui for the opera 9.5 is way too highlighted, feld big and was created with vista only in mind (what bout xp and mac user!)
It a good thing window native skin was there, is way better than the black one and it should had been the default

Another that bother me with disappearing of ‘new tab’ button. Im a frequent opera user, and im always click ‘new tab’ for new tab, of coz
i know ctrl+t is avalaible, but some user likes clicking and throwing it away feld lost coz i keep moving my cursor for new tab and is not there (and yes, i know u can get it my right clicking, but thats not the point)

opera was all about new friendly.. and losing one clear button (new tab) and created complex interface (black) just might lose some fan/new user to get them get started with the this new opera..

By: minus-one

minus-one — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:44:34 +0000

i take my words back… after week of using it i like it

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:12 +0000

It seems to be not totally finished on OSX (i.e. tabs, buttons and panels highlits). Hope it would be better looking in final version. Also, bring more color ! And why such a greeny reload button, all alone in all this grey ? I know these are details, but as a mac user, I like nice finishes.

By: Omega X

Omega X — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:14:30 +0000

@ Sage

They have to. Otherwise the code becomes dependent on the OS. One of the reason why Opera stays slim is the lack of OS baggage.

By: Anytime

Anytime — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:29:18 +0000

I’ve just installed this new RC on my Mac, and I’m really, really disappointed ! The new skin looks horrid, and doesn’t fit at all with OS X interface ! Please give us back the old style, which was even not very well integrated with OS X UI, but was at least “lookable”… I’m going back right now to previous beta version of 9.5 !

By: cavok

cavok — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:24:54 +0000

Tab bar height could be reduced a little and Opera Link could sync also searches… anyway I love this browser, cool as never before. Good job.

By: schmoeding

schmoeding — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:40:07 +0000

As ugly as before. I never used Operas default skin. “The blue button” still rules.

By: Sage

Sage — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:56:12 +0000

As usual, Opera doesn’t understand UI guidelines and instead of looking like a native application on Windows or OSX, it looks out of place, just like all previous versions.

By: heh

heh — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:50:27 +0000

wtroll2 is apparently unaware of the fact that the skin doesn’t look exactly the same on all platforms.

By: k3m15a

k3m15a — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:27:25 +0000

work in progress. like the skin overall but the toolbars are too thick, and the buttons could lose the square outline on them.

as for ff skins, ff1 was ok, ff2was dull ankludgey looking and sadly ff3 is not big improvement. Add all that to the fact that ff just hasn’t impressed me, even more so with extensions that break with each new ff update.

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:29:21 +0000

The skin looks really good in the latest build - the first version was already ok, but now it looks great if you ask me.

By: hans

hans — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:30:05 +0000

I use “windows native” on Windows XP with Classic Skin.

By: Hogi

Hogi — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:42:50 +0000

well, it was about time for a skin change. first impression is very important.