“Featherweight” Designer, Henrik Helmers, Joins Opera

By | July 18, 2012 | 7 Comments

“Featherweight” Designer, Henrik Helmers, Joins OperaAgain.

With the release of Opera 11.50, Norwegian browser maker has introduced a new, Google Chrome like skin, which was a part of the “Featherweight” project. As explained back then, the “goal has been to make Opera as light, bright and user-friendly as possible—without sacrificing power or flexibility”

So what happened next? Long story short, he left the company in mid-2011 to work for the Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet.

Well, as noticed by one of our readers, he was not happy with the current employer and will be re-joining Opera and hopefully, continue working on the UI.

Want to see the difference between Opera 11.10 and Opera 11.50?

“Featherweight” Designer, Henrik Helmers, Joins Opera

Opera 11.10 Beta

"Featherweight" Designer, Henrik Helmers, Joins Opera

Opera 11.50 Beta

[Thanks, Hiram]

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  • http://twitter.com/bricky149 Shane Bundy

    I hope Featherweight results in a browser that looks different to the rest: Firefox, Sleipnir and Opera all look 99% the same while Chrome, Maxthon, IE look similar to each other as well. Safari 6 is yet to be released (2 weeks to go) so who knows what that’ll look like.

    • Keiv M. Salmon

      Opera’s current default skin is featherweight. it has been used since 11.50 beta.

      • http://twitter.com/bricky149 Shane Bundy

        “Featherweight” is the project name. It’s constantly ongoing.

        Like I said, I hope it will result in Opera breaking the current trend of browser aesthetics.

  • Asggdfjh

    Most of the “Themes” in 12 are memory hogging and result in system instability for less RAM users so Opera came to fix this with featherweight skin but somehow in v12 it added more artifacts than making it “Featherweight”

    1) Go to C:>Program Files>Opera>Skin
    2)Compare the size of the standard_skin of 12 to 11.50-11.54,11.60-1164

    Another method is to use a compact/slim/lite skins that can be found in this link

    http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/

    I recommend this one 

    http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=10162

    It looks fugly in v12 but if you want more performance and workspace well its up to you.

  • Markus

    your comparison images aren’t very fair. showing the blank speed dial versus showing the browser with a nice sleek webpage is obviously going to sway opinions.

  • apád anyád

    Could someone tell me the differences? The only thing I see is the removal of button borders.

  • http://my.opera.com/rafaelluik Rafael

    “Google Chrome like skin” I disagree.
    Stop trying to make sound like everyone is copying Chrome…, this is getting tiresome.

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