Opera 24 for Linux Users

Ever since Opera switched from their own rendering engine to Webkit last year, they left Linux users without any new release of Opera. Until today!!!

Opera has just announced that they are bringing back Linux support for their Opera Developer 24. So far, they only tested it on a single platform: Ubuntu Linux 64-bit with Unity or Gnome Shell. It may work on other platforms, but that’s not guaranteed.

Here's the screenshot for the latest Opera release for Linux. 

 

I haven't tried this on Slackware Linux though

Opera Browser 12.00

After two months of running Beta version, finally Opera finalize their next major upgrade, Opera 12.00. Lots of new features are introduced on this new version, including:

• Out-of-Process Plug-ins
• 64 Bit version for Mac and Windows
• Themes (just like Firefox's persona)
• Address Field Enhancement
• Full Hardware Acceleration (experimental)
• RTL support
• Windows and Tabs API
• Web Spesification Support
• WebRTC
• HTML 5 Drag and Drop
• CSS3 Animations and Transitions
• DNT (Do Not Track)
• Paged Overflow
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

What are you waiting for? Go Get Them now :)

Opera 11.60 Released

Opera has released a new version of it's product, Opera 11.60. This new version has a new codename: tunny and it uses Opera Presto 2.10 rendering engine which should bring improvements in many aspect, mostly the rendering process.

With this release, Opera also managed to add more support on new Web technologies standards, such as HTML 5, CSS 3 and 4,ECMA Script 5.1, XMLHttpRequest, and GeoLocation.

See the ChangeLog for more detail information about this new release

Opera 11 is Coming

Opera is now working to make another big release, which will be Opera 11. There has been a beta release of Opera 11 Build 1060 and i'm pretty sure that it will be released this year. Their latest version is 10.63 and it's has been quite mature to compete with others like Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (i always left IE behind).

I still don't see any release notes on the beta version of Opera, but i think it will be another big release by Opera team. I do hope they will also release an update for Opera Mini. It has been some time since they release an update for the product.

Opera 10.60 Released

When i arrived at my office today, i upgraded my old laptop that uses Ubuntu as the primary and the only operating systems since there was a huge updates yesterday. I saw that there are Opera updates and it surprises me as Opera 10.60 has been officially launched yesterday and it was already on the Opera's repository today.

I tried the new Opera (i was using Opera to write this blog post actually) and i found the UI has changed quite a lot compared to 10.11 (the previous version available for Linux). It has one main icon called Menu on the top left and it serves as the main shortcut for the rest of the sub menus inside.

I also tested the javascript feature by visiting Acid3 Test and i found the result is 100% and the transition is very smooth. Congratulations to Opera team to achieve this results. I believe others will surely follows them.

For first impression about Opera 10.60, i am willing to rate it 9/10.

Update (10:44 AM): It seems that the latest Google Chrome Beta 5.0.375.99 is slightly faster than Opera to render the Acid3 Test. Kudos to Google Chrome. I haven't tested on Safari yet as they don't have any Linux release.

Opera 10.0

I have just tested Opera 10.0 on my Slackware 13.0 machine and when it launched, it goes directly to Opera Startup Portal which has a nice background image . Opera 10.0 has an Opera Turbo features which will make your page loads faster, but it happened when you are accessing outside domain. I think it has no use when you are accessing local site

Lunascape: Browser With Three Engines

Usually browser has it's own engines. Mozilla and Seamonkey with Gecko engine, Safari with WebKit, Konqueror with KHTML, etc. There is Lunascape web browser which has three engine in one product. You can call it hybrid web browser as it combines three engines in one product (WebKit, trident, and Gecko). I haven't tried it myself, but if they can manage to combine the best of all engines in the world in one product and make it work together, i think it should have the advantage of each engine.

In their latest release (5 Beta), they claimed that they are faster than firefox, chrome, and IE 8:

Lunascape 5 beta is faster than Firefox or Google Chrome, and is fully 4x faster than Internet Explorer 8rc (tested February 2009).