14 DAY TRIAL // After promoting last week the upcoming Opera 50 web browser to the beta channel, Opera Software refreshed the developer channel with the initial release of Opera 51.
That's right, development of the Opera 51 was kicked off, and it's based on the latest Chromium 64 open-source web browser. The Opera 51.0.2776.0 developer snapshot is out with support for remembering pinned tabs after a restart, which appears to work even if you choose the "Open a specific page or set of pages" or "Open the start page" options.
In addition, Opera 51 promises to redesign the private mode window for users of the macOS operating system to make it look more like the rest of the web browser's design. On top of that, there's now also a new animation you can see in the screenshot gallery below that will appear each time you open the private mode, though it can be easily disabled if you use private mode a lot.
"The private window on macOS was updated to match the Window’s design. In addition, on all platforms the static image has been replaced with a new animation," said Maciej Kocemba, Product Manager at Opera Software. "If you tend to open private windows a lot, you can use the “Do not show again” checkbox at the bottom of the page to get rid of the animation and jump right to Speed Dial."
More Mac improvements coming to Opera 51
In addition to the revamped private window, the initial release of the Opera 51 web browser also improves the newly implemented Chromecast support on macOS by adding cast favicon during tab casting and fixing the cast icon to no longer stay red. Additionally, it fixes the color of the ad blocker counter and the background tab title in private window, and reduces the number of VTDecoderXPCService instances.
For Windows 10 users, Opera 51 brings more HiDPI improvements, especially for the O-Menu, and lets them open the news feed pop-up using the address bar badge. Other than that, the unit converter was updated to recognize dash symbols as a minus character and the text color should no longer be so dark. Check out the full changelog below for more details and download the Opera 51.0.2776.0 snapshot for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows right now from our website.
