Opera has a b lwa ta released Opera 12. The Norwegian browserbouwer has a 64bit version for Windows and Mac in the offer, and plug-ins now run in their own process. Also, the support for html5 improved.
According to Opera launch the beta faster than Opera 11 and, moreover, open tabs in a ‘smarter’ order loaded. Which choice is the browser with open tabs, it is not entirely clear. Further claims to be the browserbouwer that pages faster will be shown, including encrypted web pages.
To increase stability will Opera plug-ins in a separate process to run, like Firefox and Chrome do. Furthermore, is the beta for Windows and OS X users, now also available in a 64bit version. For Linux, this was already longer available.
Important new feature is the support for hardware acceleration of both the user interface of the browser itself, as the rendering engine. But, because the acceleration is still not quite at the right level compared to the current engine, that feature must first be enabled. This can be achieved by adjustment of two values in the configuration and the browser to restart.
Opera has skins, which allow the browser of a different appearance can be provided, renamed it to themes. The themes in the new browser are to use, are immediately apparent, and theme-packages, according to Opera faster be developed by a simpler structure.
Opera 12 may also webcams accessible via a new webrtc api. In addition, extensions can now tabs and windows to manipulate. The new browser can handle html5 drag-and-drop, CSS3 animations and transitions, and CSS generated content for paged media. Finally supports the browser to the do-not-track-feature.
