Opera 16 0 1196 62

Opera 17 Developer stream is bleeding edge development; features will be piloted, and may be shelved, taken back to the drawing board, or taken forward to the Opera Next stream – feature complete, but potentially buggy. Once the bugs have been ironed out, the features are released as stable, and once every few weeks the streams are all refreshed. You can follow all three if you want, but please note that you shouldn’t entrust valuable data to anything other than the released stable stream. Opera 17 web browser is based on Chromium and Blink (the rendering engine used by Chromium). It has come up with bigger guns to enter the race for the most popular web browser, as the current leading role is played between Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Opera 17 brings forth a completely different look for the popular web browser, which definitely gives users a reason to tinker with its new features.

Opera 17 has a new feature called Off-Road mode, which uses server-side compression to give you better browsing speeds when you are on slow connections. If you are on dial-up or pay for your internet connection by data usage, Off-Road mode compression can save you money, too.

Opera 17 displays security badges, which give you a quick glance at the security of a page. If the browser’s Fraud and Malware Protection detects anything potentially dangerous, it will display a popup to warn you. To ensure your privacy, there are ways you can control how websites monitor your web activities, and ways to keep your browsing habits and data private if you share a computer or account. You can manually set what information you want to share with specific sites.

Web Inspector is a tool for developing and debugging local and remote webpages. It includes a DOM view of webpages and highlighting of elements. You can step through your JavaScript code, and quickly inspect changes to your CSS styles. You can debug your creations, and study your application’s impact on network resources. Web Inspector allows remote debugging, making it possible to debug webpages as seen on a mobile phone or a television from your desktop.

What’s new in Opera 17 Developer:
• Start up mode option – yes, more options! You can pick one of: last session, speed dial, set of pages
• Pinned tabs – a nice beginning of future tabs improvements.
• Rocker gestures – (left->right click, right->left click)
• Extension APIs – more API stuff to play with: bookmarks, commands, omnibox, webNavigation. Separated article with detailed API’s explanation will be shipped later.
• Search engine manager – On top of the current shortcuts to search in the addressbar, (enter the one character shortcut plus your shortcut: “b” for Bing, “g” for google) you can now customize your searches, so go ahead and add “d” for duckduckgo, “m” for your own site, “o” for Opera desktop team blog, or anything else!

Candidate features near ready for O17 (currently turned off in opera:flags)
• Themes – you can now download themes for Opera. These are backwards compatible, so themes that worked in Opera 12 will work in Opera 17 Developer.
• Camera/mic – we’ve re-plumbed the web cam and microphone, so your getUserMedia fun is reinstated! This is not working on Mac correctly yet, but feel free to check it out on Windows.
• HiDPI Support (Windows) – for the ones running in hi-resolution on small screens, we are delivering you better pixels experience.

Author: Opera Software ASA
Date: 2013-08-15
Size: 30 MB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win 8 Win 7 Vista 03 XP