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PC Gamer
Morgan Park

Gamer browser adds a 'panic button' to hide your naughty tabs and open normal 'safe' tabs instead

Opera gx.

If you're reading this, there's a good chance you're doing so on Chrome. It's the browser I've used daily for over a decade and makes up over 60% of overall browser usage. Trailing way behind is Safari with 18%, followed by Edge and Firefox. I can understand then, why longtime browser contestant Opera has been thinking outside the box to stand out.

A few years ago, that thinking led to Opera GX, a version of the browser based on Google's open-source Chromium codebase with "gaming-oriented" features like a CPU/RAM usage limiter and a Twitch sidebar, as well as memey gimmicks like a setting that'll automatically wipe your internet history if it thinks you're dead. Its latest feature belongs in that same boat: a "Panic Button" that, with a single press, will close your NSFW browsing session and open a new window with predetermined "safe" tabs.

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