
“They’ll have no idea what a gaming browser is because there never was such a thing,” he said. Opera GX is the first gaming browser of its kind, and Opera is banking on the hope that the browser is something gamers will ultimately grow to need. If you don’t have two screens, you can watch a tutorial video without tabbing out of your game or crashing your computer, according to Kocemba. There’s an upcoming feature, too, that’s supposed to let users extract a video using Opera and overlay it over a game. Do I want to risk crashing my computer to tab out of Overwatch while I wait to load into the game to ask my husband to pick up cheese so I can make nachos tonight? Sometimes it’s a risk that feels necessarily, even when I know it’ll end up with me timed out of Overwatch as a punishment for leaving a game in progress. Other times, I’ll hear a ping from Facebook Messenger and open up a chat. If I’m stuck in at a puzzle I can’t solve, maybe I’ll pull up a tutorial.

Hell, I do that too, and I don’t have any viewers. It’s natural for streamers to be tabbing in-and-out of a game, checking chat or pulling up a video to show viewers. It’s a useful feature for those of us attached to our tabs, but even more important for streamers, which is an already resource-heavy process.
