Opera News

Today we are releasing a brand-new version of Opera for you to try out. As the name suggests, Opera Next for Windows and Mac is a sneak preview of the next release of our desktop browser.

When it comes to making a completely new and improved web browser, there are a few indispensable elements such as: powerful technology, clean and modern design, and fresh new ideas.

But most important of all is your feedback, so please have a look at the next version of Opera and these new features:

Speed Dial

Lighter, brighter, and with the addition of a search box and folders to make it fun and easy to stay organized.

Stash

Think of it as your browser’s back pocket – a nifty way to store pages temporarily, like when you’re doing research or comparing online offers.

Discover

With 13 different content categories across more than 30 languages, you’ll be spoiled for choice when it comes to finding more news and entertainment online.

Combined address and search bar

Search smarter, with an all-in-one window that guesses what you’re looking for as you type – and gives you a choice of search providers.

Opera Mail

On popular demand we have split the Opera Mail client from our desktop browser. The new Opera Mail can be found as a snapshot on the Opera Desktop Team blog.

Download Opera Next

Opera Next is as always free and available from www.opera.com/next. Please let us know what you think. You can submit comments or feedback right here!

Following our Opera Mini launch today, we also released a security and stability update for Opera Desktop.

Opera 12.11 should solve some crash issues as well as prevent two potential security issues. This update also includes a fix for some Google services that turned troublesome after SPDY was released from its cage.

This update is available through auto-update, but if you want it straight from our servers, download Opera 12.11 with security and stability updates!

Did you know that Opera has some of the most advanced tab features out there? From private tabs to tab stacking, tabs help you do more of what you want, the way you want to do it, on the web.

Sometimes we take for granted just how much you can do with tabs in Opera, which is why we were glad to see this super-helpful tutorial on tabs put together by the kind people at HowToGeek !

Learn how to pin your most-used sites such as Choose Opera, Opera Mail and Facebook. Then with the sessions management tool you can group the tabs that contain your work, school and personal stuff, and keep it separate from everything else. If you are one of those tab power users who love to keep hundreds of tabs open at a time, you probably already know how to use grouped tabs.

For the rest of us, there's always more to learn. From basic shortcuts like Shift+Ctrl+left-click to open a background tab (i.e., staying in the tab you're already in, while opening a new one at the end of the row) to using some of our most popular extensions to manage tabs on a computer, you can get a lot more out of Opera when you know more about tabs.

Check out HowToGeek's guide and let us know about your favorite Opera tab features!