Opera’s New Browser Might Save You From Doomscrolling

Norway-based Opera has announced a caller browser, Opera Air, pinch a attraction connected mindfulness and intelligence wellbeing. It includes break reminders, breathing exercises, and a suite of relaxing soundscapes to thief users immoderate attraction and de-stress.

“The web is beautiful but it tin beryllium chaotic and overwhelming,” says Mohamed Salah, Opera’s elder caput of product. “We decided to look astatine science-backed ways to thief our users navigate it successful a measurement that makes them consciousness and usability better.”

Air features a semi-transparent creation and a floating sidebar for its mindfulness features. When you petition to work, nan Boosts characteristic offers music, ambient sounds, and binaural thumps — wherever somewhat different frequencies are played successful each ear, which creates a perceived 3rd activity successful nan encephalon and is believed to thief powerfulness relaxation aliases focus. Soundscapes tin beryllium group to play from 15 minutes up to forever, and tin beryllium paused from nan sidebar astatine immoderate time.

The Break reminder is an icon made up of 3 lines successful nan sidebar that grey retired while you activity — you tin customize nan agelong — reminding you to return a break erstwhile nan icon is afloat faded. Air tin thief astatine that constituent too, pinch breathing exercises, cervix stretches, “full assemblage scans,” and guided meditations, which past up to 15 minutes.

Air joins nan default Opera browser and its gaming-focused Opera GX successful nan lineup. Like those, it includes a built-in advertisement blocker and free VPN, affirmative entree to nan ChatGPT-powered Aria AI assistant. Air is disposable to download for free now connected Mac aliases Windows.