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Web browser maker Opera has acquired YoYo Games, the maker of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine, for $10 million, and it has also launched its Opera Gaming division.
The deal underscores Opera‘s efforts to differentiate its web browser, Opera GX, through a gaming community. Opera itself has more than 380 million people using its web browsers worldwide. Its new Opera GX gaming browser has seven million monthly active users as of December, up 350% from a year earlier.
Opera Gaming will focus on expanding Opera’s capabilities and monetization opportunities in the gaming, said Krystian Kolondra in an interview with GamesBeat. Publicly traded Opera is based in Oslo, Norway, while YoYo Games is based in Dundee, Scotland.
“A couple years ago, we made the decision to produce innovation and not have to compete with mass market in browsers,” Kolondra said. She is Opera’s executive vice president of browsers. “We focus on some segments that actually grow and are meaningful. So we decided to go after gaming.”
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GameMaker Studio 2 found its niche as a tool for making 2D games, and it’s being used by people who have very little training in skills such as programming. Kolondra said the tech has hit a point where people are becoming just as interested in making their own games as playing them. Opera also has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet.
YoYo Games had more than 400,000 new registered users in 2020.
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“It lowers the barrier to entry for anyone to start making their games,” Kolondra said.
The games can run across a wide range of web-supported platforms including PCs, mobile iOS/Android devices, and consoles.
YoYo Games general manager Stuart Poole will remain with the business alongside technical lead Russell Kay. YoYo Games has worked on the GameMaker engine for years, and it has been downloaded more than 10 million times since 2012.
Opera launched the Opera GX gaming browser in 2019. It features customization options, sound effects, background music, a gaming-inspired design, as well as CPU, memory, and network bandwidth limiters that make the browser less resource-hungry .
Some of the big hits made with GameMaker include Risk of Rain, Undertale, and Hyper Light Drifter. Those games have sold millions of copies. Kolondra said the company does not plan to make exclusive games that run only with the Opera GX browser, as the goal is to create a community around Opera GX users but also make GameMaker Pro 2 available to those who want to make cross-platform games.
Kolondra said that good browser performance is essential to even 2D gaming, and sustaining that performance across mobile devices and laptops as well as variable bandwidth and connectivity requires thinking outside of traditional application silos. The line between building good games and good browsers has been eroding for years — with gaming interactivity across internet connections ramping up and browsers growing more multi-function and sophisticated, he said.
Opera GX has been getting good reviews from players who don’t want to sacrifice performance just by having a web browser running, Kolondra said. It has more than a million ratings to date.
“For us, gaming is more like a community now,” Kolondra said. “This is going to accelerate our growth as it will be a very unique value proposition. GameMaker Studio makes it easy for people to create games.”
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The Opera browser consists of five groups of elements on the screen:
- The menu bar
- The tab bar
- Navigation buttons (back, forward, refresh/stop, start page)
- The combined address and search bar
- The web view
(1) For Mac, the menu bar offers the following options:
Menu | Available actions |
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Opera | View information about your version of Opera, access preferences, sign in to your Opera account, clear browsing data, import browsing data, get themes and extensions, or quit the browser. |
File | Manage tabs or windows, open files and locations, save pages locally, or print. |
Edit | Manipulate text (copy, paste, or select), search for text in pages, or check spelling. |
View | Zoom, show or hide the bookmarks bar or the extensions sidebar, toggle the toolbar in full-screen, browse in full screen, access start page items (Speed Dial or news), view downloads, manage extensions or themes, open the password manager. |
History | Navigate back or forward, reopen closed tabs or windows, navigate to recently-viewed pages, or view your full browsing history. |
Bookmarks | Open the bookmark manager, bookmark the current page, or navigate to pages in your bookmark folders. |
Window | Minimize the current window, zoom, or select open windows and tabs. |
Help | Access Opera help pages, view keyboard shortcuts, or report issues. |
(1) For Windows and Linux, the main menu offers ways of interacting with the browser. You can open new tabs or browser windows, zoom pages, or view Opera pages such as Speed Dial, news, bookmarks, downloads, history, or settings.
(2) The tab bar navigates between pages when you view more than one at a time. Click a page’s tab to view its contents. To open a new tab, click the + button on the tab bar.
(3) The navigation buttons tell the browser where to go to view pages:
Button | Action |
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Go back one page. | |
Go forward one page. | |
Reload the current page. | |
View the start page. |
(4) The combined address and search bar directs the browser to websites and searches the web. You can type website addresses, for example
https://www.opera.com/
, or search the web with key words, for example ‘Opera browser’. Read more about the combined address and search bar.![Opera Opera](/uploads/1/3/7/4/137473822/400259403.jpg)
(5) The web view shows the content of a page. Here you can interact with web pages by reading text, viewing pictures, clicking links, and more.
Opera’s sidebar is your quick access to Workspaces, Messengers, Speed Dials, Flow, bookmarks, personal news, tabs, history, extensions, downloads, and preferences.
To pin the sidebar to Opera, click on the Easy setup button to the right of the combined address and search bar. Under Appearance click Show sidebar. Click the button again to unpin the sidebar. Unpinning the sidebar will make the sidebar only available from the start page.
Manage Opera’s sidebar
You can customize which Workspaces, messengers, and other features will be visible in your sidebar.
To customize your sidebar, click the three-dot icon at the bottom of your sidebar. The Sidebar setup panel will open, allowing you to edit or remove elements on your sidebar, like Workspaces, Messengers, History, extensions, as well as other features and tools.
You can also access the sidebar settings from Settings > Sidebar. There you can select to pin the sidebar, enable a narrow sidebar, or enable messenger notification badges.
Tabs
Opera can organize multiple pages into one browsing window using tabs, which are designed to resemble paper filing tabs. Tabs allow you to interact with many pages simultaneously without closing a page until you are ready.
To open a new tab, click the +button on the tab bar.
Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a tab to open its context menu. Several actions are available to be performed for the tab from this menu:
- New tab
- Reload
- Reload all tabs
- Copy page address
- Duplicate tab
- Pin tab
- Move tab to workspace >
- Mute tab
- Mute other tabs
- Close tab
- Close other tabs
- Close tabs to the right
- Close duplicate tabs
- Save all tabs as a Speed Dial folder
- Reopen last closed tab
Visual tab-cycler
The visual tab-cycler is a tab-preview popup that lets you cycle through thumbnails of your open tabs. Press and keep holding Ctrl, and then press Tab to bring up the tab-cycler. Cisco webex teams login page. Click on Tab to cycle though your tabs. Release Ctrl to switch to the currently highlighted tab.
Preview a tab’s contents
You can optionally hover your mouse over a tab to preview its contents without changing focus from the current page. Previewing tabs is helpful if you have several open at one time.
To enable tab previews:
- Go to Settings.
- Click Advanced in the left sidebar, and click Browser.
- Under User interface, turn on Show tab previews.
Search in Tabs
The Search in Tabs tool helps you find a specific open tab via keyword searching, which is quite useful when you have a lot of tabs open. Use Ctrl+Space to open the Search in Tabs tool. Type a keyword to narrow down your open tabs and find the one you want.
You can also access Search in Tabs by clicking on the magnifying glass icon to the right of your tabs, which has replaced the earlier Tab menu.
Close tabs
To close a tab, hover your mouse over the tab and click the x button. To close all tabs except your current tab, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the current tab and select Close other tabs. You can also close all tabs to the right of your current tab with Close tabs to the right, and if you have multiple tabs with the same site, you can use Close duplicate tabs.
If you’ve accidentally closed a tab or want to reactivate the most recently closed tab, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a tab and select Reopen last closed tab.
Pin tabs
You can prevent Opera from closing tabs accidentally or prioritize important pages by pinning tabs. A pinned tab does not close, and will remain pinned when restarting the browser.
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To pin or unpin a tab to the tab bar, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the tab and select Pin Tab/Unpin Tab. When pinned, the tab will move to the left side of the tabs bar.
Move tabs to a different Workspace
Workspaces are available at the top of your sidebar, and let you organize your tabs into different groups. You can, for example, have different Workspaces for shopping, work, or research.
To move a tab to a different Workspace, right-click on that tab (Ctrl+click on Mac), hover over Move tab to workspace, and select the Workspace that you want from the popup.
Manage tabs
If you’d like an open tab to be placed in a separate window, simply drag and drop the tab off the tab bar. Tabs can also be dragged and dropped between open windows.
To open a copy of a page in a new tab, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the tab and select Duplicate tab.
Save tabs in a new Speed Dial folder
You can save all open tabs in a window as a folder of Speed Dial entries. Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the tab bar, or on any tab, and select Save all tabs as Speed Dial folder.
A new, untitled folder will be placed at the bottom of your Speed Dial.
If you wish to save only a selection of tabs in a Speed Dial folder:
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- ⌘-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Win/Lin) the tabs you wish to save.
- Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) one of the selected tabs to open the context menu.
- Click Save tabs as a Speed Dial folder in the context menu.
Tabs history
Ya tabtab meaning in english google translate. Each tab will retain its browsing history until it is closed. To view the history of a tab, click and hold the back or forward button on the left side of the combined address and search bar.
Continue holding the click as you move to select a former page from the list, and release it to open the page.
Context menus
Context menus appear when you right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a part of a web page. Backblaze seeding. A different menu will appear depending on the element type: page, link, or image.
The page context menu appears when you right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a part of a web page where there are no links, images, or text. This menu provides you with navigation options (go back, forward or reload the page), options for saving the page as a Speed Dial entry or bookmark, viewing the source code of the page, saving the page as a PDF file, and more.
The link context menu appears when you right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a link and lets you decide how to open or save the linked page or address.
The image context menu appears when you right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) an image and contains multiple options for opening, copying, and saving the image.
Zoom
Opera’s zooming functionality allows you to read small fonts more easily. To zoom when using a Mac, select View > Zoom In/Zoom Out. For Windows or Linux users, go to the O Menu > Zoom.
You can also use keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out with Ctrl or ⌘ + +/-.
You can set the zoom by default if you would like all web pages you visit to be zoomed in or out. To set the default zoom:
- Go to Settings.
- Under Appearance, click the Page zoom dropdown menu.
- Select the level of zoom for all web pages.
After you set the page zoom, pages will zoom to the adjusted default size when you open them. If you have tabs already open, reload them to view the page at your new default size.
For Mac users, if you wish to return an individual page to its original format, click View > Actual Size. Windows and Linux users can go to the O Menu > Zoom and select Reset zoom to the right of +.
Full screen mode
Opera gives you the option to browse in full screen mode.
To turn full screen mode on or off on Mac, go to View > Enter/Exit Full Screen. Windows and Linux users can go to the O Menu > Page and select Full screen.
Full screen mode hides the menu bar from view but you can access it by hovering your mouse at the top of your screen. In full screen mode, the toolbar can be hidden or shown from the View menu.
On all platforms, full screen mode can be exited by pressing Esc.
Find text on the page
Opera can search through the text on a page and find text for you. To find text on a page, press Ctrl+F or ⌘+F on your keyboard. Type in the search field to find your text.
Found words are highlighted in green as you search. If more than one instance of the word exists on the page, they will be highlighted in yellow and a count will appear in the search field. To navigate between instances, click the left and right arrows.
Download and manage files
When you download a file from a website, a download message appears below the right side of the combined address and search bar. This message shows a progress bar for the download, and disappears when the download is complete.
A new icon appears at the right side of the combined address and search bar, too. Click this to see a list of your most recently downloaded files, or clear them from your download history.
To view a detailed list of your downloaded files, launch the files from the browser, or restart a download if your connection was interrupted, select View > Downloads on Mac. On Windows and Linux, go to O Menu > Downloads.
You can change the default download location in your preferences. To do so:
- Go to Settings.
- Click Advanced on the left sidebar, and click Browser.
- Under Downloads, click theChange button.
- Navigate to the folder you wish to have downloads saved to and click Select.
Here, you can also set the browser to ask you where you’d like to save files every time you download.