14 DAY TRIAL // A new Beta version of the Opera browser has been released, and it looks like the developers are preparing to close another Beta cycle. There are some pretty interesting improvements made, so it's really worth a look.
The Opera developers are still playing catch up with some of the features already available in Google Chrome, but on the other hand, they are already light years ahead everyone else.
When it comes to features like new tab functionality, bookmark managing, and even sheer speed, it's hard to find a better Internet browser than Opera. Now, it looks like developers are also closing some issues that seem to plague a lot of Internet browsing applications these days.
We have one more a division among browsers that seem to have different capabilities, depending on the platform and the available codecs. On the other hand, things seem to be settling down, and the latest version of Opera for Linux also comes with proprietary codecs support. It might not look like much, but it's an important step in the right direction.
Opera 33 comes with proprietary codecs support
"We’ve got another update for you this week. This time it’s Opera beta, which will be probably the last one before we switch it to Stable. Opera beta is now able to detect whether the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package is installed. As long as this package is up-to-date (45.0.2454.x and newer), Opera can make use of the libraries in this package to provide support for some proprietary codecs for media elements, including H264 and MP3," reads the official announcement.
According to the changelog, the incorrect icon for downloads is no longer used in private mode, ‘Today’ and ‘Yesterday’ are no longer shown as prefix for old dates, the Opera deb file now recommends the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra installation, and a few other smaller fixes have been implemented.
You can download Opera 33 Beta right now from Softpedia if you want to give it a try.