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Opera Developer Update Brings Built-In RSS Reader, Chromecast Support

| Date: July 20, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: browser, internet, linux, macosx, opera, ubuntu, windows

Opera browser rss feed reader

A new Opera Developer update released today brings an interesting new feature: a built-in RSS reader.

Opera Beta Adds New Video Pop Out Feature

| Date: April 14, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: browser, internet, linux, macosx, opera, windows

The latest Opera beta adds a cool new feature across all supported desktops: video pop out. This feature allows shifting the video frame outside the browser, the goal being to allow "true multitasking".

The new video pop out feature skipped the Opera developer channel, landing directly into beta, as a surprise for Opera users. This feature only supports HTML5 videos so it won't work with Flash.

Here's how this feature works: go to YouTube, DailyMotion or any other page that displays HTML5 videos while using the latest Opera Beta and you should see an additional button in the middle of the top border. Clicking this button pops out the video:


Opera Developer 30 Adds 32bit Linux Builds

| Date: April 15, 2015 | View Comments | Tags: browser, linux, opera, ubuntu

Quick update: the Opera developers have started providing 32bit Linux binaries with the latest Opera developer 30.

Opera Developer Linux 32bit

Vivaldi Is A New Chromium-Based Web Browser For Power Users

| Date: January 27, 2015 | View Comments | Tags: browser, linux, macosx, opera, ubuntu, vivaldi, windows

Vivaldi is a new web browser based on Chromium / Blink, especially created for users who "have problems fitting all their open tabs on one screen". The browser is developed by Vivaldi Technologies, whose chief executive and founder is John von Tetzchner, former Opera CEO and co-founder.

Vivaldi web browser Ubuntu

How To Get Flash And H.264 To Work In Opera Browser (Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04)

| Date: December 03, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: flash, html5, linux, opera, ubuntu

Opera 26 (stable) was released for Linux today and if you've tried it, you might have noticed that, at least on a pretty fresh Ubuntu installation, Flash and H.264 don't work.

So here's how to get Flash and H.264 (used for instance by the YouTube HTML5 player) to work with Opera on Ubuntu. The instructions below should work for all Opera (26 or newer) channels: stable, beta and developer.

Opera 26 Released, First Stable Linux Release In More Than A Year

| Date: December 03, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: browser, linux, opera, ubuntu

Opera 26 (based on Chromium 39) was released today for Windows, Mac and Linux. This is the first stable Opera version available for Linux since Opera 12.16, which was released almost a year and a half ago.

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Opera 25 Beta Released, Linux Added To Beta Channel

| Date: September 15, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: linux, opera, ubuntu

Opera 25 beta was released today and besides new graphical bookmarks and an improved Speed Dial, it finally supports Linux (for now, there are only 64bit debs available for download). This is the first Opera beta (previously known as Opera Next) release available for Linux since version 12.16, which was released more than a year ago.

Opera 25 Linux

Opera Finally Sees New Linux Update With Opera 24 Developer Stream

| Date: June 23, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: browser, linux, opera, ubuntu

Opera 24 Linux

Opera web browser hasn't been updated for Linux since version 12.16 (about a year ago) - until today, when the Opera desktop team announced that they released Opera 24 for Linux on the Developer stream:

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