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Opera 10.61 is now available
Aug 22nd
Opera 10.61 is now available for download.
Opera has reached an even higher performance score with security and stability updates.
New in last, major version (Opera 10.60):
- Our further-optimized JavaScript engine is over 50% faster than in Opera 10.50.
- Search suggestions for selected providers help you find results more easily.
- Enhanced support for advanced web standards such as HTML5 and WebM video is now included.
- Opera can prompt you to share your location, making geolocation-supporting websites more useful.
Opera 10.60 is now available
Aug 1st
Opera 10.60 is now available for download.
Opera 10.60 for Windows changelog
Release date: July 1, 2010
Opera 10.60 is a recommended upgrade offering new and improved features, plus security and stability enhancements. For your reference, please see the previous Opera 10.60 beta 1 for Windows changelog on the Opera changelogs website.
New features
Opera Presto 2.6 rendering engine
- Opera 10.60 final contains the Opera Presto 2.6 rendering engine, which improves stability and adds support for the following new Opera features.
Geolocation services
- User-enabled geolocation services are provided through Google Location Services (GLS).
- IP address and WiFi recognition are implemented.
- IP address recognition works with GLS by recognizing your IP address and telling you the cordinates based on it.
- WiFi recognition works with GLS by gathering and then sending a list of all nearby wireless networks including MAC (Media
Access Control) address, SSID (Service set identifier) name, and signal strength, which returns your coordinates.
- An address bar map pin icon indicates a Web page is accessing the Geolocation API.
- Opera geolocation services support the W3C Geolocation
API Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-geolocation-API-20081222/).- A user decides to share or not share their device location with a Web site based on trust; see
section 4.2 (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html#privacy_for_recipients) of the W3C Geolocation specification. - Further information is available at the Opera Desktop Team blog: “The
return of Geolocation” (http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/05/skin-fixes-unite-and-then-some).
- A user decides to share or not share their device location with a Web site based on trust; see
- See this Opera demo (http://html5demos.com/geo).
Offline Web Applications
- Support is added for Offline Web Applications (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/offline.html#offline)
implementing the user interface for caching. - This allows documents to communicate with each other regardless of their source domain, and is designed in a way which
does not enable cross-site scripting attacks. - See this Opera demo (http://html5demos.com/offlineapp).
Web Workers
- Web Workers (http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/) is an API for running scripts
in the background independently of any user interface scripts. This allows for long-running scripts that are not interrupted
by scripts that respond to clicks or other user interactions, and allows long tasks to be executed without yielding to keep
the page responsive. - See this Opera demo (http://html5demos.com/worker).
WebM
- The WebM format consists of the VP8 video and Vorbis audio
codecs wrapped inside a .webm container. It is based on the Matroska media container format, and offers high-quality
video with fast seeking. - WebM works together with the HTML5
<video>element supported in the Opera Presto rendering engine. - See these Opera articles:
- Welcome, WebM <video>! (http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/19/)
- Opera supports the WebM video format (http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-supports-webm-video/)
Opera 10.53 Build 3374 is now available
May 12th
Opera 10.53 Build 3374 is now available.
New in Opera 10.53
- Enjoy unprecedented speed with our new Carakan JavaScript engine, Vega graphics library, and Opera Presto 2.5 browser engine.
- Opera includes industry leading support for Web standards such as HTML 5, SVG and JavaScript.
- Enhanced platform integration on Windows and Mac means that Opera looks and works better than ever on your operating system.
- A beautiful, new design looks great on Windows, maximizing your view of the Web and fully utilizing Aero transparency on Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
- Our improved dialogs will not get in your way or interrupt you. You can now switch between different pages without having to clear prompts first.
- Searching is easier than ever, with Web search integrated right in the address field. You can also find pages from your history and bookmarks, as you type.
- Displaying pages in the size you want is smoother than ever, with a new zoom slider in the status bar.
- Rest assured that browsing stays personal with private browsing. Once you close a private tab or window, the data from that session is removed from the browser without a trace.
Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera’s groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. Opera, first of all, is client World Wide Web, that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language (language of a marking of hypertext HTML).
Low requirements to resources of system. Opera will work even on 386 computer about 6 MB of operative memory. MDI the interface. You can open without special expenses of memory any quantity of windows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.
Opera started out as a research project in Norway’s largest telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products.
Opera 10.51 is now available
Mar 23rd
Opera 10.51 is now available
The fastest ever
Our new JavaScript engine is up to 7x faster.
Private browsing
Choose between private tabs and windows that leave no trace.
Top security
Stay protected from dangerous or insecure sites.
Desktop widgets
Use hundreds of Opera Widgets as standalone applications.
Optimized for Windows
Take advantage of Windows’s new features and look-and-feel.
Next-generation engine
With Opera Presto 2.5, Carakan and Vega, get the fastest and most advanced browsing technologies.
Opera Turbo
Boost your speed with our powerful servers to compress Web pages, so you get them faster.
Visual tabs
Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your open Web pages.
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha is now available
Dec 23rd
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha is now available for downloading & testing.
What’s new
Inside
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Carakan
Carakan is our new JavaScript engine. It’s fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10 with Futhark on Windows (Mac optimization is not as far along). You can read more gritty details regarding register-based bytecode, automatic object classification and native code generation in the Opera Core blog.
SunSpider Javascript Benchmark (runs per minute)
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Presto 2.5
We are now using Presto 2.5, which contains a huge numbers of improvements. It also includes support for CSS3 transitions and transforms, and more HTML5 features like persistent storage.
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Vega
Vega is our new graphics library. It’s currently software based and displays everything you see on-screen. Vega can be hardware accelerated, but as you can see from the complex graphics benchmark in Peacekeeper, we don’t seem to need it yet. (Note that Futuremarks Peacekeeper test does no include the results of their complex graphics tests in the overall score. We believe this is wrong in 2009 and will simply be silly if not changed in 2010.)
Peacekeeper Complex Graphic Benchmarks
Outside
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Platform integration
- On Windows 7/Vista, you will notice a lot of visual changes and use of APIs which allow the UI to display the Aero Glass effect. For Windows 7, we also added Aero Peek and Jump List support to easily access your Speed Dials, Tabs, etc. from the Taskbar.
- For Mac, a complete rewrite in Cocoa brings an Unified Toolbar, native buttons and scrollbars, multi-touch gestures (try 3-Finger Swipe Left/Right or Pinch to zoom) and a bunch of other small details. We also added Growl notification support.
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“Private tab” and “Private window”
You can open a new Private tab or Private window that forgets everything that happened on it once closed.
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Non-modal dialogs
Dialog boxes (JavaScript alerts, HTTP authentication, etc.) are now non-modal and are displayed as a page overlay. This allows you to switch tabs or windows while the dialog is still displayed. Similarly, the Password Manager dialog is now anchored at the top of the page won’t block any content as it loads a new page.
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Address field and Search field improvements
Both fields have been upgraded in looks and functionality. They can now remember searches, support removing items from history and show results in a better layout.
Download
To try it out, you can download the latest Labs build here:
