![]() If you decide to give it a whirl, let us know what you think. Opera’s new beta desktop browser should look way better on high-resolution displays, including Apple’s new Retina displays.įor the record, the company released Opera 12, a more stable version of its desktop browser product, back in June 2012 the one you can download via the link mentioned in the first paragraph is a test version of its upcoming browser. Opera is also updating its WebSockets standard implementation and enabling it by default, in addition to adding support for the International Color Consortium profiles. Opera 12.10 comes with support for some new Web standards, including the Fullscreen API and (partial support for) the Page Visibility API. SPDY was designed to cut down the time it takes for Web pages to load, and is used by sites like and Gmail’s Web version. The latest desktop version of Opera should be quite a bit faster, thanks to performance optimizations, but also because it now includes support for the SPDY network standard. Mac users can enjoy new capabilities of OS X Mountain Lion with Opera they are now able to use Mountain Lion’s built-in share function for your social networking needs, using the new Share button in Opera’s address bar, as well as seeing Opera notifications in the Notifications Center. Opera 12.10 comes with basic touch support for Opera in Windows 8 Classic (and Windows 7), so users will be able to scroll, zoom and browse pages and elements way more smoothly. Operating system compatibility (Windows 8 and Mac OS X) The browser also comes with a brand new extensions download-progress indicator. Note that this is a very early preview of Opera 73 Developer.Opera 12.10 includes an enhanced API for URL filtering, along with three new APIs ( Context Menu API, Screenshot API and Resource Loader API) that essentially enable developers to create more engaging extensions for Opera end users. You’ll be able to differentiate between Stable, Next and Developer builds by the colour of the program icon: Opera’s final stable build icon remains red, Next is a silver grey, while Opera Developer's icon is blue, meaning it’ll be safe for even relatively inexperienced users to try out new features before they become generally available. ![]() And because Opera Developer updates as soon as the latest development build is released, you can keep checking back regularly to see what’s up and coming and whether the bugs you’ve encountered have been fixed yet. The reasoning is simple: you get to try out the new features without affecting your existing installation, so if the developmental version is too buggy for your tastes, you can use your tried and trusted version, no problem. Opera is no exception, and Opera Developer adopts the same approach to Firefox Nightly in providing a completely separate installation of the latest unstable version of Opera for people to road-test without affecting their day-to-day browsing. Nowadays, it’s de rigueur for browser manufacturers to speed up development, which means opening up less stable builds to the masses in order to get them bug-checked as quickly as possible. Opera beta for Windows (Using Opera beta for Windows installer means Opera for Computers EULA is accepted) Opera beta for Windows (Portable version) Opera beta for macOS Opera beta for Linux deb packages Opera beta for Linux RPM packages Opera 56 Developer. The days when major browser updates were few and far between are over.
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