With the new main version Opera 16 in the “stable” channel, the developers in Norway and Poland have not yet reached the functionality of the old, adjusted browser generation (until Opera 12.x), but it is moving forward. Opera 16 is based on the current version of Chrome 29, which also closes several vulnerabilities from older versions. New in Opera 16 is the geolocation API according to the W3C standard, an interface for transmitting the computer location. If you want, your browser can allow the current location to be transferred to a website to use location-based services. These include, for example, route planners or referral services for restaurants or shops in the vicinity.
Opera 16 can now automatically populate common web forms with stored data if the user so desires to save form data in the browser. In addition, the Opera developers implemented in the Windows version the integration into the taskliste and the start menu. The Mac version has a presentation mode. Users can now use the pseudo URL “opera: flags” to switch on or off some of the experimental functions. Finally, the developers have also eliminated numerous errors and improved stability. Help texts are only available in English. One way to create a bookmark is to be in the next version – until then, the quick dialing must suffice.
The Norwegian browser-maker Opera has discontinued its web browser with the same version 12.x, in order to reinvent it. Instead of using its own Presto engine, Opera has been powered by Google Chrome, a Webkit-based HTML engine Blink. Chromium is open-source variant of Chrome. This is accompanied by similar development cycles and levels as Chrome and Firefox. In addition to the "Stable" channel for the general public, there is a "Next" (Beta) and a "Developer" channel. Volunteers can participate in troubleshooting in the next and next major version.
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