pera’s
quick settings sidebar is a good idea, but you have to scroll to the bottom of that to get to the full O settings. Additionally, we’re not sure about the choices of quick settings. For example, how often will you have to toggle the settings for showing news or weather on the blank tab page or AI services in the sidebar?
When you do reach Opera’s full settings, there is a lack of categories and the settings are largely presented as a single list that you have to scroll down. The settings are searchable, but that can never be the full answer, as you don’t always know the right term to search for. A clearout of the cluttered quick settings and more organisation in the main settings would be a good idea.
Chrome
does a better job because there are about 15 settings categories. Brave’s settings page doesn’t have as many categories as Chrome, but we couldn’t decide which is the better arrangement. Brave had a nicer overall visual layout, and the options are much the same. Both provided brief descriptions under the options.
Firefox
keeps the number of main categories down to around five, which feels a little understuffed. For example, the General
category contains the appearance subcategory, along with subcategories for things such as language, download directory and network settings, which aren’t closely related. It’s not unusable, but we’d like to see more categories.
Like most areas of Edge, the Settings interface is attractive and well organised, with just the right number of categories. Where needed, descriptions are supplied.