Opera News

If you've got a My Opera account, you know that there is always a lot going on. New photos, blog posts, conversations and of course new people are popping up all the time. You wouldn't want to miss out on any of that good stuff, would you?

With this new Speed Dial extension, you can be sure never miss a new friend request or My Opera mail again ! Click here to install it for yourself.

By the way, did you know that My Opera is one of the oldest Speed Dials ever included in Opera?

Opera 12.10 beta is now available for testing. This latest version of Opera speeds up browsing for end-users, makes images more beautiful, and includes functionality that allows web developers to add user-friendly features to their pages and extensions.

Opera 12.10 supports new OS features, such as built-in sharing of content to social network on MacOS X Mountain Lion shown above. Click image for high-res version.

Mac and Windows support

Opera 12.10 for Mac supports a number of new Mac OS X Mountain Lion features such as Notification Center and built-in sharing of content to social networks, and even comes with Retina Display support. Windows users aren't left out; as part of our continuing work on Windows 8 integration, Opera 12.10 beta has inertia scrolling and pinch-to-zoom on Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Opera 12.10 beta now supports International Color Consortium (ICC) profile v4, which will make photographs more vibrant and colorful, displaying them exactly as the photographer intended.

SPDY Gonzales

Opera has always been about speed, so the new release incorporates the new SPDY protocol, which makes web pages load faster on SPDY-enabled sites such as Twitter, Gmail, WordPress and (soon) Facebook.

HTML5, Extensions and Web Standards

Opera is the browser that began the HTML5 specification that is transforming the web, so it's only natural that we'd be adding more support for the latest standards. For more detailed information about HTML5, extensions and web standards in Opera 12.10 beta, we recommend you check out the Desktop Team blog or the Opera Developer Relations Team blog.

Download Opera 12.10 beta

To download Opera 12.10 beta, get Opera Next. If you're already using Opera Next, simply "Check for Updates" and install the new version.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Kamil Sevi and Burak Beyzadeoglu for their recent assistance in discovering security issues in Opera's web sites.

If you have discovered a security issue in one of Opera's web sites, please report it securely using our bug tracking system (please do not report such issues using blog comments).

Part of the idea behind our upcoming release of Opera 12 was to make customizing Opera even easier, thanks to Themes. Installing them is a snap, but making them is fun and easy too! With the Opera Theme Creator, you can get creative on your own desktop.

This addon by Michael in our Product Management Team is as simple as it sounds. Four simple steps and you too can be a theme creator!

1. Install the Opera Theme Creator Addon.
2. Go to your favorite wallpaper site and click the extension button.
3. Hover any image you want to create a theme out of.
4. Apply to Opera!

Once you've made your theme, you can share it with everyone else by submitting it to our Themes Catalog! Remember that this extension requires Opera 12, which is currently in beta. (That might change very soon though. )

In the meantime, if you want to know even more about making themes, we have all the info you need in our tutorial.