14 DAY TRIAL // Opera Software, through Tomasz Procków, has announced the general availability for download and testing of the Opera 30 web browser, which has just been promoted to the Beta channel.
Being based on Chromium 43.0.2357.18, Opera 30.0 Beta Build 1835.18 brings a number of improvements to the sidebar and tabs as well as to the tab menu. Additionally, the new Beta build of the Opera web browser fixes all sorts of issues reported by users.
The Sidebar gained support for extensions, which will allow for unlimited use cases to improve your productivity. These extensions work like standalone apps. Furthermore, the powerful tab cycler introduced a while ago in the Dev channel received numerous improved and it now lets users switch tabs in the order they were opened.
The tab menu has been improved in Opera 30 Beta Build 1835.18
In addition to the sidebar and tab improvements, the tab menu has received new features as well. As such, two sections have been implemented in the tab menu, Other Device tabs and Recently-Closed tabs, which will allow you to view tabs opened on other devices where you're signed in with your Opera account and find accidentally closed web pages more easily respectively.
"Today, we have an interesting update to our beta channel, with sidebar extensions, a tab cycler and improved tab menu," says Tomasz Procków, team leader for Opera desktop team. "Try them out if you browse for serious stuff — work, research, or entertainment."
Download Opera 30.0.1835.18 Beta for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from Softpedia. Keep in mind though that this is a pre-release version that contains unresolved issues. Thus, we don't recommend installing it on production machines.