Just the old excuse of users who reported no use of Opera for not having extensions. The company finally responded to requests from its users and released the Opera 11:10 with extension support. And for lost time, the company promises to facilitate the portability of extensions for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
The initiative is an attempt by the company to increase its market share. Opera currently ranks fifth among the major browsers, with approximately 2%. In the mobile phone market, however, the browser is one of the most used, with a 26.4% share of navigation performed.
Opera 11 combines elegant graphic interface and smart updates some of its most popular features and new ways to customize Opera according to your preferences.
The browser is compatible with all major operating systems market, including Windows, Mac and even Linux. Choose the side menu the version compatible with your platform and install normally on your machine.
What's New
Extensions
Using extensions in Opera 11 is a way of enhancing and customize your browser with new features, and its installation is very simple, like those of its competitors.
Extensions help personalize and improve the browser that Opera can offer. More than two million extensions were already being downloaded. Learn about the five most downloaded extensions:
NoAds authoring Lex1: the extent of the Opera that blocks advertising.
LastPass authoring LastPass: LastPass is a password manager and form filler and free.
FastestTube - YouTube Video Downloader: download any video from YouTube.
Preview image authoring whochan: display a popup with a preview image.
Translator authoring neilj: translate automatically web pages of foreign languages.
Mouse gestures visual
With the movement of your wrist, movement of the mouse let you navigate back and forward, open new pages, close tabs, and more. In Opera 11, now you have a practical visual guide to the wonders of the mouse gestures.
Group Guides
Group Guides is the best way to organize your open windows. Just drag a tab on top of another to create a group. Also, when you open pages as a background from other pages, the Opera automatically creates a new group.
More safety
Changed the address bar so you can have better understanding on the security levels of the sites you visit. Opera 11 already exhibits a clear emblem indicating the level of site security and allowing instant access with a click, the information security and reliability of the site.
HTML5 and structural changes without changing the look
Support for HTML 5 was increased in Opera 11, which are updated to offer the very latest and best in rich, dynamic web applications. Among them, especially the events update content in real time, web applications and next-generation games that support multiple users.
In addition, the new panel of e-mails easier to use. You can define how your accounts and e-mails will be presented, and create folders to organize everything that you receive. And the bookmark manager has won some visual changes to facilitate its access.
Exclusive version for TechTudo and Globo.com
In March this year, Opera released a version just for those who stay on the site's technology and Globo.com own portal. Learn about and download the exclusive version dedicated to nerds on duty here.
Other versions:
Download Portable Opera browser and go directly to your USB drive without installation.
There are two versions for mobile: Opera Mini, also known as Opera Portable, compact and compatible with any phone that runs Java ME applications (and with special editions for iPhone and Android), and Opera Mobile, version powerful browser for smartphones and Nokia Windows Mobile.
The browser since version 11.10 WebP uses to make browsing faster with the Turbo feature. Although this feature already exists in previous versions, the Turbo now uses the default image WebP to leave even faster navigation.
Finally, Opera also provides partial support for the HTML5 API files that Web sites can interact with files on your computer.