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Opera 12.00 for Windows
Opera 12.00 is a
recommended upgrade offering new and improved features, plus security and
stability enhancements.
Out-of-Process
Plug-ins
Opera now runs plug-ins as a
separate process, allowing for more control when a plug-in misbehaves. This
feature will enhance security and stability.
64-Bit Mac and
Windows Versions
The 64-bit version of Opera
will offer performance improvements for some functions and allow Opera more
freedom in allocating memory.
Themes
New, lightweight themes make
it easier to customize the browser. Install or change themes at the click of a
button, without restarting the browser.
Address Field
Enhancements
Numerous improvements to the
address bar have been made:
·
Improved address field and
address bar drop-down suggestions
·
Smart URL shortening in the
address field drop-down
·
The page title and the page
excerpt will be used for full page search results
·
URL and page content columns in
the address field drop-down have been combined
Experimental Full Hardware
Acceleration
Hardware acceleration allows
Opera to offload graphics rendering from the processor (CPU) to the graphics
card (GPU), making graphics intensive operations such as animations faster.
·
This feature is disabled by
default. To enable it you may set EnableHardwareAcceleration to 1. WebGL (which takes advantage of
Hardware Acceleration) can be enabled by setting EnableWebGL to 1.
Right-to-Left (RTL)
Script Support Added, Language Support Expanded
RTL support will bring
additional stability for certain languages. Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, and Arabic
languages added.
Window and Tabs API
Extensions will now be able
to interact with tabs, create tab groups, and manage windows.
Opera Unite, Opera
Widgets, and Opera Voice Discontinuation
Opera Unite and Opera
Widgets will be off by default in Opera 12.00, and will eventually be phased
out of the Opera browser in the future. Voice support will be removed as of
Opera 12.00, as the voice-detection library is no longer supported by the
third-party vendor.
Redesigned Opera
Help
Opera Help ( F1 or ⌘ + ? for
Mac) has been redesigned to be more user-friendly, and also align it more with
the browser look and feel. To improve discoverability, Opera Help topics have
been broken up and restructured into categories based on what users want to do,
rather than reflect the menu structure. This is the first phase of a long-term
project to improve Opera Help.
Web Specifications Support
Opera 12.00 will include
changes in the Opera Presto 2.10 engine up to core-integration-point 289.
WebRTC
Initial support for real-time
communication has been added. Allowing the source of HTML5
<video> to
be set to the user's webcam.
HTML5 Drag and Drop
Drag and drop enables webpages to
have elements that the user can drag from one page to another, or from their
desktop to the webpage.
Support for animations and
transitions has been updated and expanded.
Do Not Track
Added support for the Do Not
Track (DNT) HTTP header.
Paged Overflow
An innovative new set of CSS
constructs that allow webpages to be split up into paged media, revolutionizing
the Web reading experience.
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
(CORS) for XMLHttpRequest
CORS enables more secure and
flexible communications between websites.
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