Opera Air: The browser for digital well-being

The new version of the browser aims to provide a better surfing experience with guided meditation, mindfulness breaks and binaural sounds.

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Feb 5, 2025 at 2:55 pm CET

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By

Tom Leon Zacharek

With “Opera Air”, the Norwegian provider Opera is introducing a new version of its standard browser. This is designed to emphasize mindfulness when surfing the internet and promises a balanced and stress-free experience that should lead to more focus.

The guided breaks designed to achieve this consist of meditation, neck exercises, breathing exercises and a full-body scan. You can choose the length and a male or female voice to guide you through the exercises.

There is also a boost function that uses binaural sounds to influence brain waves. You can choose between 19 preset sets, such as “Maximum concentration”, “Positive mood” and “Dream reminder”. It is possible to adjust the length from 15 minutes to infinity. In addition, a wide range of ambient sounds and 64 pieces of music can be selected to play in the background and their volume can be adjusted. The same settings are also available for the guided pauses.

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The web interface itself has a modern and minimalist design. There is a taskbar on the left-hand side, which can be used to access the new main functions. This is customizable and thus offers the option of having important functions at your fingertips. On the same page, you can switch between different workspaces further up, while the search bar is in the usual horizontal position as in any familiar browser.

As in the other versions of Opera, the free AI called Aria is available in Air, as well as an ad blocker and the option to surf via VPN. In addition to the new Air version, the same provider also offers a standard browser and the Opera GX version, which is aimed at gamers. The version for gamers is characterized above all by numerous visual customization options, optimizations for online videos and the limitation of system resources. Another fun feature is “Fake my History”, which automatically replaces the browser history after a certain period of time.