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Curtain goes up for Opera 10.6
ALTERNATIVE WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Opera has released Opera 10.6, the latest version of its eponymous virtual web surfboard and this time the update is for Linux too.
Opera 10.6 is available for all platforms and represents an evolution for Windows users and a revolution for Linux.
It is the first stable version build for Linux for ages and brings in geolocation and support for the WebM video format.
It also gives Linux users all the Opera 10.5 things like a revamped user interface and a brand-new and ultra-fast Javascript engine.
The browser supports HTML5 elements such as web workers in addition to having added security and stability fixes.
It is the first release that provides geolocation, which Firefox 3.5 introduced a year ago and Chrome has supported for a few months.
It means that websites can ask the browser for the users' location. With your permission, websites and services can pinpoint your whereabouts.
It is the first stable release of Opera to support the emerging WebM video format. The new open source format, introduced by Google, is hoped to solve the video codec problem in HTML5.
Opera had been refusing to support the proprietary H.264 codec. Opera now supports WebM as well as Theora for HTML5 videos. µ
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The most easily reproducible bug still not fixed: when you load a page and start scrolling with "panning" feature of middle mouse button and the page will stop loading, then the scrolling will stop. BAD. If they can't fix such an easy thing, how can we be sure they don't introduce any more regressions with every new build?
I've just tried updating to this latest version and I've noticed a slowdown in all page loading from Speed Dial. Some pages don't load at all and I've downgraded to a previous version to get my speed up again. Have any other user's noticed this?
Linux users will indeed be very happy with this release. It's a mindblowing leap from 10.11, and that was great to start with. The super-charged JavaScript engine and new rendering engine give pages a very noticeable speed boost. Then there are the new features... Forgive me if I'm drooling ;)