Opera is an internet browser that came along long before big hitters like Firefox and Chrome.
Overview
Opera 12 keeps the general design and functionality of the highly-praised Opera 11, but adds convenient improved features like themes, web cam access and hardware acceleration. As for the the interface, Opera 12 features a slightly cleaner GUI
with a focus on webpages instead of buttons and menus. Overall, Opera
12 isn't a huge change compared to the last version, but it has been
improved with some nice new features.
Innovations and speed
The big innovation in the last version of Opera was extensions
and while the choice of browser enhancements is still fairly limited,
when you install or uninstall add-ons, you don't have to restart your
browser. They are also sandboxed, so if one crashes, your browser won't.
Opera 12 runs just as quickly as Google Chrome
(the developer claims it's even faster) and the rendering engine has
been tweaked slightly to offer an even faster browsing experience.
Visual Tabs and Tab Stacking is useful if you often have too many
open, and there are now visual mouse gestures. These are well
implemented, and accessed by holding the right mouse button which brings
up a translucent guide to mouse gestures. This is a great introduction
for people who've never used gestures, and hopefully allows for greater
use in the future.
There's still an integrated mail client, which continues Opera's move
towards doing everything you need in one application. The newest
features or improvements of note are themes and web cam access.
The most notable improvement has been to Speed Dial which instead of
simply giving easy access to your favorite sites, now allows you to
embed your Speed Dial with dynamic information - in other words, web
apps within Opera. Meanwhile Password Syncing allows you to sync
passwords across machines and devices - just sign-up for an account and
Opera does the rest. There have also been some HTML5 improvements for
developers such as Session History, Navigation and the W3C File API.
Conclusions
Opera 12 is a definite improvement on Opera 11 although the
changes aren't revolutionary. However, if you're looking for a new
browser, this is probably the most innovative currently on the market
and is well worth installing.
Recent changes
- DSK-379264 Enable SPDY by default for Opera Turbo
- DSK-376350 Setting as default browser on Windows 8
- CORE-49278 canvas globalAlpha rounding issues
- CORE-49302 Speed Dial for Facebook blocked by Ghostery (URL Filter Conflicts between extensions)
- DSK-379258 Debian package doesn't check for correct version of glibc
- CORE-49298 Pasting text with trailing linebreaks puts the caret at the wrong place
- DSK-377280 Date column not wide enough in mail
- DSK-378043 Clicking 'Compose' with folder in Contacts selected does not add entire folder in 'To' field anymore
- Review last updated: 11/12/12
Pros
- Incredibly fast
- Handy Speed Dial functionality
- Tab stacks
- Mail client
- Password Syncing
Cons
- Fewer extensions than other browsers
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