New Opera stable 49
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l33t4opera last edited by l33t4operaThe Opera 49.0.2725.34 has been promoted to the stable channel
;-)The change log, and the announcement.
"The Opera 49 has arrived with a collection of improvements, and upgrades to several of our browser features.The snapshot feature now comes with editing tools, and selfie mode to help personalize your sharing of the web. VK Messenger signs on to the list of integrated sidebar messengers, and we’ve added five new currencies for the currency converter.
Today’s release offers also new customization options, including extensions rearrangement, and an Easy Setup mode for quick browser adjustments. Private mode, the O-Menu, and History panel, all received improvements.
To top it off, Opera 49 welcomes a direct VR Player, and the browser has been sharpened to look its best on HiDPI screens.
Create, edit and send the perfect screenshotWe love to find new things on the Internet, but for the past 20 years, when wanting to share content with our friends, we could only send links, and print screen dumps. Earlier in the year, we embarked to change this, when we released our concept browser.
Continuing our mission of re-imagining what a web browser should be capable of, Opera 49 offers a snapshot tool with editing features, including a selfie camera, to help you add raw emotion to your screenshot. Capture any part of the web, and add your own flare, to let your friends know how exactly you feel about that new film, or how excited you are for your holiday in Rome.
How to use Opera’s snapshot toolYou can launch snapshot, either directly from the sidebar via the camera icon, or by hitting Ctrl + Shift + 5 (⌘ + ⇧ + 5 on macOS). An adjustable frame will appear on your screen, where you can frame exactly what you want, before hitting “Capture” to snap your screenshot. If you wish to quickly snap a full web view screenshot, simply click “Capture Full Screen”.
Once snapped, editing tools – including pencil, arrow, blur, zoom, emojis, and a selfie camera – will appear at the top. When finished, click “Copy and Close” to send your screenshot to your clipboard (you can also hit Ctrl + C from your keyboard). You may also save the screenshot to your system as a .png file.
VR playerOpera became the first browser to provide support for 360-degree videos to be played directly into virtual reality headsets. Owners of HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and other OpenVR compatible devices can now easily view the quickly-growing library of awesome 360-degree content.
In order to contribute to the 360-degree content in the web, we partnered with 360 Labs, the world-class production company specializing in immersive, panoramic photography and video. Check out how great their video looks in our VR 360 Player!
Opera’s VR 360 Player will automatically detect an installed VR headset. When a user browses to a video, the “Watch in VR” button will appear on the top (next to the video pop-out button). One simple click will engulf the viewer into the 360-degree world offered by the video. Plus, you will not need a mouse, or keyboard to look around in the video. Simply turn your head in the direction you want to look.Opera’s VR playback system will not only support 360-degree videos, but standard videos as well. You can launch any of your favorite 2D movies, or standard 180-degree videos through your headset, creating an awesome, personal movie theater experience.
VK Messenger joins built-in sidebar communicatorsWhen you’ve finished creating the perfect screenshot, send it to a friend in one of four integrated sidebar messengers. VK Messenger joins the party, started by Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Since being unveiled in Opera 45, Opera’s integrated sidebar messengers have made chatting and browsing simultaneously a breeze. For each messenger, simply log in to begin chatting. You will be notified by a new message with a notification badge over the messenger icon. Using the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + M (⌘ + ⇧ + M on macOS), will cycle through all opened messengers while surfing the web.
You can pin the sidebar to your browser, so that it is accessible in every tab as you browse. From the Speed Dial, click the slider found at the bottom of the sidebar to pin it to your browser. Your new Easy Setup panel (explained below), offers the choice to pin or unpin the sidebar. You can also go to Settings (Preferences on macOS) > Browser > Sidebar to turn off notification badges for your messengers.
Easy SetupEasy Setup takes over for the previously labeled “Customize Start Page” panel found in the top-right corner of the Speed Dial. Along with its redesigned layout, Easy Setup is an all-in-one panel to help first-time users set up their Opera browser, while providing seasoned veterans a shortcut to commonly-configured features.
Inside Easy Setup are switches to help customize how your Opera browser will look with themes, wallpapers, bookmark, sidebar options and more. You’ll be able to tailor our top features, including ad blocker, configure download locations, manage browsing data, and import bookmarks. If you are switching from another browser, Easy Setup makes it simple to import bookmarks, and data from your old browser, while making Opera your new default browser.
The link to the full settings page is at the bottom of the panel.
Five new currencies for currency converterThe search pop-up tool has been a staple of Opera’s features since the 39th edition of the browser. The utility tool allows you to highlight text from any web page, to begin a new search with your default search engine, or to copy the text to your clipboard.
We have enhanced this tool with a number of convenient features. The search pop-up tool can convert currencies, units of measurement, and time zones to a form that is familiar to you when you highlight them.The search pop-up tool can currently convert 32 units of measurements, 14 time zones and now 37 currencies. The five new currencies added to the original 32 are: Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH, ₴), Kazakhstani tenge (KZT, ₸), Georgian lari (GEL, ლ, ₾), Egyptian pound (EGP, E£), and Belarusian ruble (BYN).
The currencies are converted to the currency of your choosing. Go to Settings (Preferences in macOS) > Browser > User interface, and select from one of 37 available currencies in the drop-down menu, next to the “On text selection convert currency to” dialogue.
Any value, that is converted can be copied to your clipboard by hovering your mouse over the converted value, and clicking the revealed “Copy” button.
Rearrange your extensionsYour extension icons, placed to the right of the combined search and address bar, can be rearranged. Done similarly as rearranging your tabs, you can click and drag your extensions in any order you please. By default, your extensions are ordered from left to right based on their installation date. You can shop for extensions in our add-ons market. To manage your extension settings, click the box icon found in the sidebar.
Refined private modeWe have altered the appearance of the private mode window for the Windows and Linux platforms. The private window now closer resembles the regular light theme mode of Opera, with an appropriately matched dark address bar. We feel this alteration should cause less eyestrain, as was reported by our users.
O-Menu and History panel improvementsIn Opera 48, we reorganized the O-Menu to make it cleaner and more contextual, and added the list of recently closed tabs and windows to the History menu item.
For Windows and Linux users, your browsing history across multiple windows is recorded into a single place. With this “global” history, you can close a tab in one window, and reopen it in another. No matter from which window you will access the history menu, it will contain the same list of closed tabs.
Additionally, closing a window, along with its tabs, is easier to locate. When closing it, all of its tabs will be listed as a single item in the recently closed tabs page. For example, if you terminate 99 tabs from a window, you can later reopen them all under “99 Tabs – Window.”
Looking good on high-resolution monitorsWe spent a significant amount of time, to ensure that Opera runs smooth on the latest HiDPI monitors, and the latest Apple macOS system. Icons, tabs, buttons and pop-ups have all been sharpened, and buffered to look their best on the best-available monitors.
New Speed Dial wallpapersOne way to get a glimpse of the sharpened visuals is to try out one of our new wallpapers for your Speed Dial. The new wallpapers come from the works of Tom Anders Watkins and Miguel Noa, and have been modified to fit your Speed Dial. You can find these new wallpapers, and others on our add-ons page".
The Chromium has been updated to version 62.0.3202.62.
"To learn more about the changes in the engine itself, visit dev.opera.com/blog/opera-49".
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l33t4opera last edited by
New update - Opera stable 49.0.2725.39
;-)The change log, and the announcement.
"Hi, to prevent further Opera stable crashes for users on macOS 10.9, we are providing a quick update.
Chromium was updated to 62.0.3202.89."
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A Former User last edited by
Went from x86 to x64 at 47-48-49 releases - and have noticed that x64 version is much better at RAM handling(!) - perhaps partly due to Windows not running Opera in 32bit containers anymore.
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l33t4opera last edited by
New update - Opera stable 49.0.2725.56
;-)The change log, and the announcement.
"As you prepare for the holidays
we are happy to unveil some improvements to our VPN service. Please read on to see what’s new!
Renewed (faster and better) browser VPNBack in September 2016, we introduced free, built-in, browser VPN service, which doesn’t require the users to log in. Nor does it store any log data from their surfing history. This made Opera the only major browser, with such a unique service. Guess what, we’re still the only one! Now, we are introducing our first major upgrade to this service, which will be rolled out gradually across the globe as an update to Opera 49.
Moving to Opera's data centersIn the past, the VPN service was hosted, and operated by SurfEasy LLC, the company recently acquired by Symantec. We have looked into the best options for hosting the service, and came to the conclusion, that it should be moved to our own data centers. This is becoming reality now, and we’re excited about this change. Here’s why: as you probably know, Opera has vast experience with hosting big server infrastructures. This means, the co-location of the service to our data centers is expected to result in increased performance, scalability, and balancing capabilities, while allowing us to keep it free and no-log service. Furthermore, we are confident, that the improved service will be of higher quality, and performance. This update was firstly introduced to our developer version on November 30, and we are now rolling it out to the stable version of Opera 49.
From countries to regionsAs we move the service to the Opera's data centers, we are also changing from listing locations, based on countries to regions. For the updated browser VPN, we will provide the following options: optimal location (default), the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Locations will be rolled out gradually, starting with Europe today, and the Americas, and Asia coming soon.
Chromium version 62.0.3202.94." -
A Former User last edited by A Former User
VERY nice
EDIT:
about how long before the autoupdate kicks in for this? thanks
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kreesr last edited by
Do I have version 49.0.2725.47 when it will be updated?
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zalex108 last edited by@rudrick
Which update?
Despite I don't understand about what do you mean, did you look at the Opera FTP?
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". · Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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zalex108 last edited by
@rudrick said in New Opera stable 49:
stable - but only got 49
49 It's still the latest Stable,
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". · Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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zalex108 last edited by
@leocg said in New Opera stable 49:
@zalex108 Nope, it's 49.0.2725.56
I mean 49 as whole version, so it's not the 50 yet.
At the other hand,
the previous to .56 it's .47."You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". · Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
