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Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-the-quiet-ones dept.

First time accepted submitter iZarKe writes "Version 11.60 of Opera Browser for Desktop was released today. Significant changes: the inclusion of their new HTML5 rendering engine "Ragnarök", a revamped address bar, full ECMAScript 5.1 support, support for CSS3 Radial Gradients (finally), and a very revamped Mail panel. Originally, these features were set to be released with their next major version, 12.00. However, due to more work needed for the hardware acceleration feature also to be included in Opera 12, the 11.60 intermediary release came to be, as they didn't want to hold back the other new features for that long a time."

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  1. FYI for Mac users by tonywong · · Score: 5, Informative

    Known issues
    Flash Player 11 crashes on Mac. We recommend disabling it or downgrading for the time being.

    1. Re:FYI for Mac users by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Flash Player 11 crashes on Mac. We recommend disabling it or downgrading for the time being.

      You had me at Flash Player 11 crashes.

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  2. Re:What keeps Opera going? by ledow · · Score: 5, Informative

    Being the default browser of dozens of smartphones, selling themselves on the Wii console, etc.?

    Opera make more than enough to keep themselves going, even if you can't "see" it. Hell, their entire Opera Link & Opera Turbo facilities must cost a bomb to run as it is. They'd have gone under long ago if they weren't making money.

  3. Wow. by Pionar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have to say, after only using it for about 10 minutes, and using the developer tools, very nifty! Plus, it makes it easy to send custom-made http requests, including inserting your own headers and content body.

    With firefox, there's an extension for that called Poster.

    1. Re:Wow. by ledow · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As an Opera user, I can safely say that I hear "With firefox, there's an extension for that..." about just about everything that Opera has built-in and yet Opera doesn't get in my way or require me to install untrusted random junk to do it.

      Enjoy a decent browser. Personally, I think it's one of the best ever mail clients too.

  4. Release Notes in song form by squarelegs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Release notes are always better when sung to a festive tune http://youtu.be/4TlPU0QWv6g [Opera's Bruce Lawson giving a moving rendition of 11.60]

  5. Re:What keeps Opera going? by dreemernj · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And selling the engine for other things. Adobe used (uses?) Opera for Creative Suite. I think it powers the help system or some part of the menu system in that. I would imagine there are other similar uses that I've just never heard of.

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