14 DAY TRIAL // Opera Software released today the final release of the Chromium-based Opera 52 web browser, introducing the promised ad blocking improvements to make page loading even faster than before or other popular browsers for that matter.
Based on the Chromium 66.0.3355.4 web browser, Opera 52 comes with a much-improved built-in ad blocker that not only protects your computer against cryptocurrency mining and bad ads, but it now promises to be faster than ever and speed up the loading of web pages as you surf the Internet. How fast? Well, check out Opera's page loading speed test below to see.
"To prove this, we pitted Opera 52 to a page loading speed test against Opera 51 and Chrome 64 with its ad blocker. The browsers were tasked with loading 15 popular news websites ten times each. The results of this benchmark test showed that Opera 52 performs 16 percent faster than Opera 51 and 44 percent than Chrome 64," said Opera's Krystian Kolondra.
Multiple tabs selection, copy page addresses, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS support
Another exciting new feature of the Opera 52 release is the ability to execute all sort of actions on multiple tabs simultaneously by selecting multiple tabs. Also, there's now a new keyboard shortcut for closing individual tabs (hold Alt while clicking the tab), as well as support for copying multiple page addresses at once via a new entry in tabs’ right-click context menu.
Finally, a bunch of cool new animations will make your Opera browsing experience fun when encountering common errors like network access denied, Internet disconnected, site can’t be reached, fraud and malware warning, or DNS errors. You can see them all in the screenshot gallery below. Opera 52 also comes with support for Canonical's upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system.
Download Opera 52 for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
