In fact, in contrast to the minimalist UI, Coast’s animations are flamboyant, arguably to an unnecessary extreme. In particular, the tab closing animation (where the page is ‘eaten’ by the top lip of the app’s background) is stunning to see in motion. The home screen of Coast is similarly barebones, with a discreet URL bar at the top of the screen and app-like buttons below representing the users’ bookmarks.Ĭoast employs some very nice animations throughout, making the app feel very playful.
All focus is given to the current web page. In fact, as shown in the above screenshot, Coast opts not to show the URL bar at all. Gestures control page navigation, with edge swipes standing in for a traditional back button.
One button opens tabs (which are metaphorically represented in the UI as pages, similar to Safari on the iPhone) and the other button takes you “home”. When looking at a web page, there is no onscreen chrome except for a single, thin bar that runs along the bottom of the screen. Opera has just launched Coast for iPad, a full-screen web browser for tablets. A button will appear in the browser address field, from which the user can see and change location (more locations will appear later), check whether their IP is exposed and review statistics for their data used. Mac users just need to click the Opera menu, select “Preferences” and toggle the feature VPN on. Once installed, follow the instructions below to activate the feature. Opera’s developer browser is a free download. If accessing content from other regions is your primary interest, the browser currently allows you to virtually travel to the USA, Canada and Germany, but more regions will follow once the feature makes it into the stable version. With a free, unlimited, native VPN that just works out-of-the-box and doesn’t require any subscription, Opera wants to make VPNs available to everyone. Until now, most VPN services and proxy servers have been limited and based on a paid subscription. Usually you have to pay for these, but the latest developer version of the Opera for Mac has one built right into the browser, and it’s completely free to use. Virtual Private Networks are becoming increasingly handy things to have, offering greater security on public Wi-Fi networks, making it harder for websites to track you and accessing content only available in particular countries.
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