The highlights are as follows: new converting tools for units of measurement – perfect for e.g. Celsius, or Fahrenheit conversions, anticipating autumn, and winter travels – and time zones, and also our snapshot tool. Today’s beta includes also importing bookmarks from Edge and Yandex, improvements for the Tab menu, the ability to remove history suggestions in the address bar, reorganized O-Menu, and sharpened images.

Conversions galore – Convert units of measurement, time zones, and currency

Today’s initial Opera 48 beta build, comes stacked with 14 unit of measurements, and 16 time zones, ready for your conversion whims. A simple highlight of the value, will convert the value from metric to its imperial equivalent, or vice-versa. A simple highlight of a measurement value, will convert the value from metric to its imperial equivalent, or vice-versa. With the time zone converter, highlighting, a faraway time zone will adjust it to your local time (or your system’s operating time zone).

Easy copy of converted values, and fraction recognizability

You can easily copy the converted value to your clipboard for later use. Hover your mouse of the conversion, to reveal a second “Copy” button, as demonstrated in the screenshot below, and click it to keep it in your clipboard. Opera 48 beta makes this tool more precise, with support for converting fractions. The unit converter can now recognize an array of Unicode subscript, and superscript forms, such ½ ft, 1⁄4 mi or even ³⁄₄₇ gal.

One fix made during the developer phase, was the time converter will now work if an extraneous dot, or comma is found in the highlighted field. Also, a date (DD-MM-YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY) should be highlighted with a time, it will be reproduced in the conversion as well.

Your local time is determined by your system’s time settings.

Currency conversion is based on the reference rates, reported by the European Central Bank (“ECB”), using EURO as its base currency. You can learn more about the ECB’s policy, and exchange rates here.

Snapshot

We are excited to implement a snapshot tool in Opera 48 beta. Inspired by our Opera Neon screenshot tool, you can initiate the beta snapshot tool, either by clicking the camera icon in the sidebar, or by a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Shift + 5 or ⌘ + ⇧ + 5). After firing up snapshot, an adjustable frame will pop onto your screen, allowing you to frame exactly what you want to capture. You can also do a quick ‘Capture full screen’ to snap what you see on your monitor. Once you’ve taken the snapshot, you have the choice of saving it to your clipboard, to quickly paste elsewhere, or directly into your system’s hard drive.

Importing from Yandex, and Edge

Here is a complete list of browsers from which you can import your data to Opera: Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Yandex, and Bookmarks from an HTML file.

Increased number of recently closed tabs

In the Tab menu, found to the far right of the combined search and address bar, the number of recently closed tabs has expanded from 10 to 32. During your browsing session, any tab, that you close will be stored in this panel. The recently closed tabs list is a handy, and abbreviated shortcut to your history page, allowing you to quickly recall a closed tab. Plus, all tabs queued up in the recently closed tabs panel, will be saved over to your next browsing session. Another quick way to open your most recently closed tabs is to right-click any active tab, and select “Reopen Last Closed Tab.” This page will resurrect in a new tab.

Removal of history suggestions

Today’s beta release makes it much easier to remove history items, suggested in the combined search and address bar. Whether that’s a mistyped search, or a page you want to forget about, you can get rid of it with just one click. Starting for Windows and Linux, removable search or page URLs, will have an ‘X’ on the far right end of the entry in the combined search, and address bar drop-down. Previously, you had to dig into your history log to delete it.

Note: Removal of history suggestions is available on Windows, and Linux.

Reorganized O-Menu

The O-Menu has been cleaned up with more logical, and better organized sections. For instance, all bookmark-related actions, such as importing and exporting, can be found in the bookmarks submenu. In addition to these changes, we made coming back to recently closed tabs and windows much easier, as they are listed in the O-Menu.

Sharpening the view

Today’s beta build has sharpened toolbar icons for Windows, and better visibility for dark icons in the bookmarks and extensions bars, while in dark theme. Colors on the user interface are more uniform across all platforms. Two new buttons have been added. A “Resume” button is shown in your downloads page, when a download was interrupted by closing the browser, and a refresh button for errors in the sidebar messengers is present. Several icons and notifications, especially in HiDPI modes, have been sharpened as well (loading icons, pop-up and content blocked notifications, and updated plus icon in toolbar).

Other highlights, and fixes

Some important things we want to highlight: fixes for seeking and volume control on Vimeo, CPU usage on Google and Yandex maps, while hardware acceleration is disabled, and crashes relating to bookmarks.

The Chromium is updated to 61.0.3163.49.

The change log. You can find more details in the official announcement.

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