14 DAY TRIAL // Opera Software, through Błażej Kaźmierczak, has announced the promotion of the Opera 34 web browser to the Developer channel, now available for download for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems.
According to Mr. Kaźmierczak, Opera 34 is based on the open-source Chromium 46.0.2490.6 web browser, and introduces a new feature in the addressbar, which aims to make your web browsing sessions more pleasant and ease your daily actions.
The new feature is related to the operation of opening websites by typing their URL address in the adressbar (also known as addressfield) and has been implemented in the User Interface section of the Preferences panel, entitled "Show extra suggestions."
When enabled, the Opera web browser will display tiles of the most accessed websites, so you won't have to type the entire URL of a website again. If you're also using the Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome web browsers, you know exactly how it works.
By default, you will only see tiles for the website that are available in your speed dial, but there will be more of them as you access more websites. The function can be enabled by opening the Preferences page and activating the "Show extra suggestions" option under the "User interface" section.
"Today we have an UI addition for you to check," says Błażej Kaźmierczak. "When clicking addressfield with mouse, tiles with your most popular sites should appear - and then, the site is just a click away, no need to type anything."
Known issues and download links
Those of you who are eager to see what's new in Opera 34, which will land in the Beta channel in the coming months and will then be pushed to the stable channel sometime at the end of the year, can download Opera 34 Dev binaries for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems right now from Softpedia.
Please keep in mind though that this is a pre-release version, not suitable for production use. There are, of course, known issues, such as misaligned items in menus, broken Flash Player plugin for GNU/Linux systems, and a crash that is occurring when displaying Tab Previews on Windows 8 and higher operating systems.