Browse the web in a secure environment with built-in ad-blocker, secure VPN connections and website compression for faster web page loading. It supports customization using extensions and themes, as well as Opera Turbo.
Browsing the Web does not need to be a dangerous activity in terms of privacy, it does not need to be slow, and it certainly should not require you to fight all kinds of ads to reach the content you were looking for. Opera offers you, among many other features, a free VPN solution to protect your privacy, an ad blocker to get rid of annoying ads, and a Chrome-based architecture to guarantee high-speed browsing.
Though the number of Opera users seems to have remained stable (and in the lower ranks) for the last few years, the Norwegian company hasn’t stopped innovating to offer you (us, actually) a lightning-fast and secure browser to make the most of our browsing experience. Why such a comprehensive and free browser does not seem to take off for good is (in terms of functionality alone) beyond me – it is just as fast as Chrome (the most widely used browser in the market), it includes a free VPN solution, private browsing, two workspaces, a search-in-tabs function, a built-in snapshot tool, etc. All of these features can only be found in this browser, together with many others that I’ll leave for you to discover, and still it struggles to go over the 5% of the market share.
If not the most popular browser, Opera can be surely labelled as the most innovative one, even though it’s the oldest of the top five. Opera developers brought us the “dark & light mode”, now available in Chrome as well; the pop-out video feature, that can also be found now in Chrome and Firefox, and some other innovative utilities that are still exclusive to this browser – i.e., the Ad Blocker and the customizable speed dials. Opera’s pop-up blocking is by far superior to whatever similar solution you may find in its closest competitors. However, while blocking pop-up windows and ads does not seem to be a problem, blocking suspicious or malicious websites is actually one of its few cons (its lack of parental control features is just another one).
Opera remains the most customizable browser among the most widely used ones, it’s been a source of inspiration for more popular browsers, it has invented things we now take for granted (such as multi-tab browsing), it is as fast as any other Chrome-based browser, it consumes less resources (including RAM memory) than all of its competitors, and it is just as intuitive – if not more – than any of the four browsers with a higher market share. Still, this excellent browser hasn’t managed to convince software developers or users of its many advantages. I cannot but recommend that you download, install, and enjoy using this browser.
v66.0 [Dec 10, 2019]
66.0.3515.27 – 2020-01-07 blog post.
- DNA-82683 Bookmarks menu is not readable in dark mode after hovering.
- DNA-83139 [macOS] screenshot is resized.
- DNA-83204 [Mac] Anchor onboarding widget to history icon on sidebar.
- DNA-83205 [Mac] Popup looks bad with mode change.
- DNA-83351 Enable feature on stable/beta.
- DNA-83366 [Mac] Onboarding popup doesn’t follow the browser window.
- DNA-83402 Promote O66 to stable.
66.0.3515.21 – 2019-12-27 blog post.
- CHR-7687 Update chromium on desktop-stable-79-3515 to 79.0.3945.79.
- DNA-82516 Showing empty popup after closing 3 tabs.
- DNA-82517 Save Screenshot of last closed tab.
- DNA-82670 Aligned onboarding widget to new design.
- DNA-82728 Use BubbleDialogDelegateView to create onboarding widget.
- DNA-82733 Add flag name to Opera://flags.
- DNA-82737 Handle button clicks on history sidebar panel onboarding view.
- DNA-82763 X on onboarding popup is not clickable.
- DNA-82767 Disable feature by default.
- DNA-82790 Hide onboarding once sidebar icon is not fully visible.
- DNA-82791 Keep displaying onboarding widget once it lost its focus.
- DNA-82811 Add rounded corner to thumbnail.
- DNA-82888 Change color of ‘x’ when darkmode enabled.
- DNA-82908 Enable flag on developer stream.
- DNA-82921 Use existing resource strings instead creating new ones..
- DNA-82934 Rendering artefacts on recently closed tabs popup.
- DNA-82935 Broken popup when sidebar is not visible.
- DNA-82991 Dont show internal opera pages in onboarding.
- DNA-83015 Backport to O66.
- DNA-83044 Onboarding doesn’t appear on mac.
- DNA-83052 WidgetDestroyed is not showing in stats.
- DNA-83078 [macOS] Crash on ‘Try it’ button.
- DNA-83138 No onboarding when only 3 tabs opened.
- DNA-83191 Missing include in bubble_popover_controller.h.
66.0.3515.14 – 2019-12-17 blog post.
- CHR-7680 Update chromium on desktop-stable-79-3515 to 79.0.3945.70.
- DNA-82146 Crash at chrome::FindBrowserWithWebContents.
- DNA-82544 Implement “no more than one notification daily” limit.
- DNA-82838 Opera 66 translations (02.12.2019).
- DNA-82878 Crash at -[TouchBarController faviconForWebContents:].
- DNA-82898 Relaunch button on about/update pages fails with error.
- DNA-82953 Test driver fails to build.
- DNA-82967 [Mac] Opera crashes on dragging the SSL icon on the URL Bar.
- DNA-82975 Crash at blink::DocumentLifecycle::EnsureStateAtMost(blink::DocumentLifecycle::LifecycleState).
- DNA-83165 [Rate Opera] Remove “optional” from email placeholder.
66.0.3515.7 – 2019-12-05 blog post.
- CHR-7666 Update chromium on desktop-stable-79-3515 to 79.0.3945.45.
- CHR-7675 Update chromium on desktop-stable-79-3515 to 79.0.3945.56.
- DNA-81884 [Advanced content blocking] Ads are blocked for whitelisted page in Incognito.
- DNA-82342 ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED when trying to use Opera VPN while Pulse Secure is suspended.
- DNA-82414 Wrong number of trackers displayed just after deactivating adblocker.
- DNA-82473 https://www.nba.com/standings not working with AdBlocker enabled.
- DNA-82515 [Mac] Right-aligned address field icons overlap with left-aligned icons while resizing window.
- DNA-82557 Address bar dropdown launches HTTP GETs for every autocomplete.
- DNA-82616 Settings – Tracker Blocker – Add “Learn more” link.
- DNA-82637 Port video pop-out metrics.
- DNA-82647 Tab icons mixed after Tab closing.
- DNA-82717 [MAC] Remove PageView from TouchBarTabView.
- DNA-82766 Removing products from Continue on Amazon is slow.
- DNA-82810 Can’t drag suggestions on start page.
- DNA-82825 Crash at opera::stats::PageViewStatsReporterImpl::ReportPageViewEvent(content::WebContents*, opera::stats::NavigationEvent const&, opera::stats::WindowTabInfo const&).
- DNA-82840 Disable favicon fetching for typed URLs.
- DNA-82891 Enable #video-pop-out-surface-layers by default on stable.
66.0.3515.3 – 2019-11-28 blog post.
- DNA-82773 Promote O66 to beta.
66.0.3515.2 – 2019-11-27 blog post.
- DNA-77365 Rewrite Update & Recovery page.
- DNA-82230 [Mac] URL is not correctly aligned when the Geolocation is ON.
- DNA-82319 Crash at opera::StartPageWebContentsHelper::GetWebContents >opera::stats::PageViewStatsReporterImpl::ReportPageViewEvent.
- DNA-82348 Extend the test server with latest changes.
- DNA-82371 Customize “Back to tab” control icon.
- DNA-82462 Move duplicate tracker diagnostics to opera-diagnostics.
- DNA-82470 [Linux] Snap package doesn’t recognise GNOME 3.24 platform snap connection.
- DNA-82518 Fill popup with content.
- DNA-82537 [CryptoWallet] Lost pairing after relaunching browser.
- DNA-82563 [Mac] Remove usages of + (NSTask *)launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:.
- DNA-82565 Youtube video and comments doesn’t work with some list configuration.
- DNA-82577 Create kWorkspaces flag.
- DNA-82578 Implement WorkspacesWebContentsHelper.
- DNA-82591 [Win] Hotkey is missed in tab popup.
- DNA-82595 Enable #video-pop-out-surface-layers by default on developer.
- DNA-82596 Do not block first-party ‘trackers’.
