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Hands-on: Opera 11.50's new "featherweight" interface packs a punch

Opera has released version 11.50 of its desktop Web browser. The significant update introduces Opera's new "featherweight" user interface and brings a number of other new features and performance improvements.

The major browser vendors have all been working to simplify their user interfaces and reduce the amount of functionality that is exposed in their default layouts. Opera took a big step in that direction with the 10.50 release last year, when they hid the menu bar by default. The new "featherweight" interface takes the existing streamlined layout and overhauls it with a much more consistent style.

In our review of 10.50 last year, we highlighted the strengths of the streamlined layout but had a lack of enthusiasm about the feel. The issue is that simplifying an interface by pulling out elements tends to detract from the seamlessness and sense of balance. To get it right, Opera really needed a more holistic redesign of the navigation and tab interface—with an approach that takes the new simplified layout into consideration from the start.

That seems to be exactly what the browser maker is doing with the "featherweight" project. The execution is great and the impact it has on the quality of the user interface in 11.50 is very positive. The Mac theme in particular has largely gotten past the "uncanny valley" effect that it exhibited in previous versions.

The Windows theme already had a pretty good native feel in 11, but Opera has still managed to bring it up a notch in 11.50. The menu jewel in the titlebar is less visually intrusive and the toolbar looks less cluttered due to the removal of the button borders. The status bar at the bottom of the window is much easier to see in 11.50 because the designers gave it an opaque background instead of leaving it in the window's glass frame.

The new design cuts some of the extraneous visual noise. For example, Opera used to show colored dots on top of tabs to indicate when the tab's content has changed. The dots are gone in 11.50 and have been replaced with a really subtle artwork change that makes the tab look like its top-right corner is creased backward.

The new featherweight style in Opera 11.50 really brings the browser's interface up to the same level of quality as Chrome. It's seamless, streamlined, and distraction-free. The only part that could still use some work is the sidebar. Opera's sidebar is a useful feature and a noteworthy advantage that the browser has over Chrome, but the visual style of Opera's sidebar makes it feel like it is bolted on as an afterthought. It's especially noticeable in OS X where the heavy gradient breaks the visual continuity of the tab and navigation bar.

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