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Whenever I open a new tab in Opera Neon, the cursor automatically focuses on the Neon search bar instead of the browser’s main address bar.

But the action I do most in any browser is: open a new tab → type a search or a saved site's name → hit Enter. I want that to go through the address bar, not the Neon search bar.

Every new tab forces me to click into the address bar first. One click sounds trivial but because opening a new tab and searching is my most frequent action, having to manually click the address bar hundreds of times a day is incredibly tedious. In fact, this single UX friction point is making me consider switching to another browser.

Beyond the extra click, the Neon Search Bar has two major flaws compared to the Address Bar’s search: Its suggestions are not as detailed and comprehensive as the address bar’s Google/search and website suggestions. Another frustrating issue is that, while it normally searches on Google, if I type a long-tail or question-oriented search, it often unexpectedly routes my search to Neon's AI search instead. I then have to re-type the whole thing into the Address Bar anyway just to get standard Google results.

My request: Please add a simple toggle in the settings that allows users to choose their preferred auto-focus on a new tab: Neon Search Bar or Address Bar.

The default can stay as the Neon search bar for new users, but users who prefer the traditional address bar workflow should be able to change it.

This seems like a small change, but it has a big impact on daily use. Honestly, it's the one thing making me consider dropping Neon. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Please consider adding this option. Thanks in advance.

I’ve been using Opera Neon for about a month, and first off kudos to the team for building such a great browser. I’ve tried almost every AI integrated browser out there (Edge, Brave, ChatGPT Atlas, Dia, Comet, etc.). Before Neon, my daily driver was Comet (which I kept my Perplexity sub just for the browser).

I gave Neon a shot a month ago and I've been really impressed. I’m considering Neon to be my main browser from now on but there's one issue holding me back:

Almost none of the language models have a thinking/reasoning mode.

Grok 4.2 has a reasoning option, but I'm not into that model.
GPT 5.4 Pro: Huge props to the Opera team for including such an expensive model. Unfortunately it takes 5-10 minutes to generate an output which just isn't practical for daily usage.
(Also Gemini 3.1 Pro has reasoning on by default.)

What I (and probably a lot of users) really want to see are reasoning options for GPT and Claude models, like GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7.

My question to the Opera team: Are there any plans in the near future to add reasoning versions of these models?

I'd love to make Neon my main browser going forward, but without the reasoning/thinking option for these models, I'll probably end up canceling regretfully.

Thanks for taking the time to read and reply.