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Opera GX launches GX Profiles and Video Pickup to enhance your streaming and stream-watching experiences

Use the “Streaming” GX Profile to separate your streaming life from work or school and continue watching videos on the go with the new Video Pickup 

Hello everyone,

Today we are happy to launch two new features in Opera GX: GX Profiles and Video Pickup. GX Profiles lets you create several “copies” of Opera GX to separate the browser you use for streaming or studying from the one you use for other activities by customizing each of these experiences. Video Pickup allows you to start watching Twitch or a video on another popular streaming platform on your PC, and then continue watching it on your phone right where you left off.

GX Profiles brings the next level of browser modding:

  • Streaming is the perfect GX Profile for streamers. It mutes all your tabs by default, preventing you from getting banned for using copyrighted music. 
  • Potato is a bare-bones version of Opera GX, which allows you to focus on the essential things in the browser.
  • Rogue can come in handy when multiple people use the same computer – it clears all your browsing data upon closing.
  • Default is the regular Opera GX experience.
  • Custom is a fully customizable profile.
GX Profiles in Opera GX

Streamers can create a dedicated profile to ensure nothing gets in the way of that perfect broadcast, and viewers can make sure no unwanted discord notifications distract them from watching the stream. Even if you just want to disappear from the online world for a few hours or grind away in your favorite MMO without distractions, GX Profiles has the perfect place to do it.

GX Profiles can be accessed and customized through the Easy Setup in Opera GX on desktop. Each new profile displays as a differently-colored Opera GX icon in the PC taskbar, giving you a feeling of multiple browsers in one and letting you easily switch between profiles. 

Video Pickup lets you pick up your video on mobile right where you left off on your PC

The other new feature, Video Pickup, lets anybody watching their favorite creators on their PC send that video from Twitch or another popular video streaming platform directly to Opera GX on their phones and pick up right where they left off. Take the videos you start watching at home anywhere you want – that was the goal behind creating Video Pickup. There’s no need to bother with rewinding or fast-forwarding to the right spot. We made sure Opera GX knows where you left off.

Video pickup in Opera GX

Simply hit the ‘Continue watching on mobile’ button on a Twitch stream or other video in Opera GX on your PC and continue exactly where you left off on GX mobile (after you scan a QR code). Video Pickup can also be used to turn a mobile device into a companion screen.

Opera GX can be downloaded directly from the home page here: https://opera.com/gx

Opera GX is available on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. GX Profiles is available in Opera GX on Windows.


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  • mathisr
    mathisr

    How can I use video pickup?

  • zacek
    zacek

    Is it possible to open a specific Opera Profile with the Stream Deck by elgato? I need that, really!
    Thanks in advance.

  • kamiikaze666
    kamiikaze666

    I love Opera and since GX even more. But I only used it as personal browser cuz of the missing Profile function.

    Finally it arrived to GX!!
    Are GX Profiles included in the Account sync or do I have to recreate them on every machine?

    Would be nice if this getting synced too!

  • FatCavill
    FatCavill

    I've set up multiple profiles on Opera GX and I have set it as my default browser. However, clicking on external links (from emails or discord etc.) opens the tab in the main/default window. How do I configure it so that it behaves like Chrome's profiles where the link will open in the last window that was focused? Is this even possible?

  • jacoboloingos
    jacoboloingos

    Will the profiles be coming to mac? And if they already are on the mac where can i find them?

  • rabinowfajn3x
    rabinowfajn3x

    Is there any chance that the profiles will get integrated into workspaces?

  • kurtoff
    kurtoff

    Recently, when I started the first screen, tiles began to disappear. Then sometimes they show up and sometimes they don't.

  • burnout426
    burnout426 Volunteer

    Really nice.

    When removing a profile, its _side_profiles profile folder gets deleted but its _side_profiles cache folder (and its contents) does not. (Win11)

    Folder names for the side profiles are an ID. Would be better if they were based on the profile name in some way so you can tell them apart in Windows Explorer more easily (for those that would want to).

    Might be nice if the default theme color for the profile matches the GX Icon color you choose.

  • jonjon49
    jonjon49

    i dont see any image icon anywhere

  • jonjon49
    jonjon49

    how do you post a photo on here

  • jonjon49
    jonjon49

    love the profiles its awesome..if your wondering you have to follow the upgrade link on this page hit download and it asks you to upgrade gx and you get the profiles enjoy its great

    • DVecc
      DVecc

      @jonjon49 I'll have to try that since my browser still says it's up to date when I check for updates.

    • jonjon49
      jonjon49

      @jonjon49 here is my opera gx with tile tabs!Untitled.png

      • kurtoff
        kurtoff

        @jonjon49 It's good. And what to do when the tiles are not loaded? Or loaded but later ...

      • jonjon49
        jonjon49

        @kurtoff if the tiles are not loaded you can choose to load them but if not just your regular copy of gx appears i use the tiles layoutb so i can be on fb all the time open same with whatsapp and the news

  • diguyo
    diguyo

    How is this supposed to work on Mac? I create another profile but I don't see anywhere where I can switch between them?

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