Once again, Opera takes the thinking out of using VPN by building it into the browser. Setting up VPNs can be troublesome for those inexperienced computer users.You often have to pay for a good VPN service.The problem with VPNs for everyday users is two-fold:

Instead, traffic is securely routed through another server masking your origins.

Virtual Private Networks let you browse websites without revealing your actual IP address. You can even resize the window by grabbing the edge, which will be necessary for 4K displays. While I cannot envision using this feature all the time I do find it incredibly impressive on those occasions described above. You can move the window around on your desktop, and it will play over any app. The function is simple: when you are watching something on YouTube just hover on the video, and you will see a pop-out icon. Pop-out video (YouTube)Īnother new feature being introduced is the ability to pop-out a YouTube video. Once again, Opera is at the forefront of bringing fresh and useful features to users especially in this increasingly mobile world. I do like the idea of Power Saver, and I choose to use whenever I am not plugged in. Battery life did seem better on my Surface, but honestly, it is hard to quantify as there are a lot of variables in play. Video playback was a little less smooth, but maybe I'm nitpicking. I cannot say I saw any degradation in my user experience with Power Saving enabled. Needless to say, that is an interesting ability. Opera claims this feature can 'extend your laptop battery life by up to 50% compared with…Google Chrome'.

Tuning video-playback parameters and forcing usage of hardware accelerated video codecs.

Reduced frame rate to 30 frames per second.

Waking CPU less often due to more optimal scheduling of JavaScript timers.

What does Power Saving do, exactly? Opera highlights these fine-tuning optimizations that they have done:

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