Opera 12 beta - try new fish

Today, Opera Software has released the first beta version of Opera 12 , codenamed "Wahoo", the latest development in the long history of desktop web browsers. Opera 12 is the fastest and most convenient compared to its predecessors, and also presents new features for testing by both developers and end users, before the release of the final version of the browser. And by tradition, with the change of the serial number, new items are coming. How good they are - to evaluate you. So, what can we offer today to the fish dish ...

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Themes provide you with an easy way to change the look and feel of Opera according to your taste and mood. Just select the appropriate topic - your browser will instantly change. Try different themes here .

It is also very easy to create new themes. If you want to try your hand at this exciting business, find out how to do it here .
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Separate processes for plugins

Plugins are the main cause of unstable browser operation, so we separate them into separate processes. This allows you to keep Opera browser working even if the plugin stopped working correctly.

Speed ​​as a result of optimization

We were able to further improve the speed of the browser by optimizing SSL processing and changing the tabs loading algorithm to reduce the time it takes to start and shut down the browser.

Webcam support

Opera 12 offers developers new features with support for getUserMedia , a specialized API that allows web applications to use the computer’s hardware capabilities, such as an integrated webcam. To familiarize yourself with the new features, try test applications:

Photo booth
Polaroid
Color picker
Explode

These pages in the browser

What if web pages look like book pages automatically formatted to fit a computer screen? What if it only takes a few lines of code? The project, previously known as Opera Reader, is now proposed by us as a standard CSS3 Generated Content for Paged Media . You can try this technology yourself in Opera 12.

Security knows no limits

The new version of Opera has been improved security icon, so that users can more easily determine the degree of security of visited websites. You can visually determine if the website uses information about your location or if it needs an enabled webcam.

Learning new languages

Opera 12 now offers interface translation into languages ​​such as Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Hebrew thanks to right-to-left support for the letter, and also allows you to mirror the interface for the convenience of users using similar writing.

Extension extensions

The Opera extensions platform has become even more functional with the advent of the Windows API and Tabs API, which allows extensions to manage windows and tabs in the browser.

Among other innovations:
- 64-bit version for Mac and Windows
- Support Do Not Track function
- Support for CSS3 Animations properties
- Support HTML5 Drag and Drop
- CORS Support - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
- Supports WebGL and optional hardware acceleration

And, of course, a lot of corrections that can not but rejoice. True, there are some changes that can cause discomfort among some users. The fact is that we decided, finally, to decide on and choose one priority in the large family of our browser add-ons. There were no surprises: Opera extensions won by a large margin. Therefore, in the future we will focus on them. But for the sake of this task, unfortunately, you will have to abandon several less popular add-ons. Starting with Opera 12, widgets, voice features and Opera Unite will be removed from the browser. Users of these add-ons will be able to use them until the end of 2012, then support for add-ons will be discontinued. Part of the functionality of these add-ons will go into extensions.

So - we try, we estimate, we send responses and we report about errors .

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