Released beta version of Opera 12

Today, Opera Software has released the first beta version of Opera 12, codenamed «Wahoo», which is the fastest and most convenient in comparison with its predecessors, and also introduces new features to test both developers and end users before the release of the final version browser.

Topics provide users an easy way to change the look of Opera according to your taste and mood.

As the developers say, plug-ins are a major cause of instability of the browser, so they are in a separate process, thus preserving the efficiency of the Opera browser, even if the plugin has stopped working correctly.

The company says that we could further improve browsing speed by optimizing the processing of SSL, and load the tabs to reduce startup time and shutdown your browser.

In addition, Opera 12 offers new opportunities for developers through support getUserMedia - a specialized API, which allows web applications to use the hardware of your computer, for example - built-in webcam.

Now in Opera 12 web pages will look like the pages of the book is automatically formatted to fit your computer screen: the project, formerly known as the Opera Reader, proposed by the developers of the browser as a standard CSS3 Generated Content for Paged Media.

The new version of Opera has been improved security badge, which allows users to easily determine the degree of security Web sites you visit: you can visually determine whether the website information on the whereabouts of the user or whether it included a web camera.