14 DAY TRIAL // Opera 12 is closer than ever, the first beta is just around the corner Opera announced. It's not quite there yet so, for now, there's another snapshot for testing.
It's an important one though, the latest snapshot enables DirectX support on Windows, but it also comes with hardware acceleration disabled by default, a change that will persist with the final, stable release.
DirectX-backed hardware acceleration is not on par with the OpenGL-based alternative, Opera warns, but it is good enough for testing. Eventually, DirectX will be the prefered API on Windows since it's better supported than OpenGL.
Apart from these big changes, the latest snapshot comes with a long list of bug fixes and improvements, related to web camera support, out-of-process-plugins and many more. The full changelog is available in Opera's announcement.
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