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Opera is famous for its speed, security, flexibility, and standards support. Itself in supporting all major web standards currently in use, including CSS 2.1, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, HTML5, WML 2.0, ECMAScript, DOM 2 and SVG 1.1 tiny.

General Features:

• Tab stacking
• Mouse gestures
• Extensions
• Opera Turbo
• Speed Dial
• Opera Link
• Password manager
• Opera Unite
• Zoom

Features in 12.00:

Live, dynamic Speed Dial

This release furthers one of the Opera browser's most popular features, Speed Dial, with new Speed Dial extensions. In your Speed Dial, you can show live, animated content such as news feeds, the weather, a collection of your favorite photos and much more. Speed Dial extensions can also be customized to your preferences. A growing collection of Speed Dial extensions is available from our extensions catalog.

Keep your passwords in sync

Opera Link synchronizes bookmarks and other browser information across multiple computers. Opera's security has been enhanced to ensure that your passwords are kept safe in Opera Link. With this feature, it is important to ensure that your Opera Link password is strong, and the Opera browser now even helps with this.

What's New:

• Code name
  • Opera 12 uses "Swordfish" as its code name.
• Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine
  • Opera 12 uses the latest version of the Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine.
• Opera Next
  • Opera Next is a stand-alone installation of the Opera desktop browser intended for testing the development of new features, technologies, and improvements.
  • It is automatically updated to include the latest changes as they become available.
  • Important note: Pre-release builds may be unstable and include known issues, such as crashes or data loss situations.
• Opera Link: Password synchronization
  • The most requested feature for Opera Link is password synchronization.
  • You can enable it when you set up link for the first time or in the Synchronization Options dialog.
• Speed Dial extensions
  • Speed Dial extensions are like small web pages embedded in your Speed Dial powered by Opera's extension framework.
  • They allow developers to make live previews of web pages or other nice decorations for your Speed Dial.
  • The Add Speed Dial dialog now promotes Speed Dial extensions, and the way Speed Dial extensions are shown in the extensions manager has been improved.
  • You can also install the same Speed Dial extension more than once.
• Web specifications support
  • Opera 12 incorporates web specifications added up to and including Opera Presto 2.8 core-integration-point 158.
  • Improved deep nesting of the quotes property.
• DOM event handling
  • Updated the list of DOM events visible on window, document and element objects.
    • Events supported by Opera and part of the Window interface of the HTML standard are now exposed on the window object.
  • Events supported by Opera and part of the HTMLDocument interface are now exposed on the HTML document object.
    • onstorage has been removed.
  • Events supported by Opera and part of the HTMLElement interface are exposed on all elements, unless the events are form specific, in which case they remain visible only on form elements.
• HTML5 datalist element
  • Added support for datalist.
• HTML5 Session history and navigation
  • Added support for the history interface.
• HTML5 and SVG classList attribute
  • Enabled the classList attribute for HTML and SVG elements.
• HTML5 element
  • Implemented the HTML5 element.
• Opera Widgets specification
  • Default widget size has been overridden from 100x100 to 300x300.
• Selectors API
  • Implemented Element.oMatchesSelector.
    • Prefixed implementation of the Element interface .matchesSelector method with "o".
    • Note: The refNodes parameter is not supported.

This beta is a test version of new features in the next release. It includes known bugs and may be unstable in certain browsing conditions. It is strongly recommended that you back up your current Opera installation before installing this version.