{"id":660456,"date":"2013-05-28T04:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=649640"},"modified":"2013-05-28T04:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:01:34","slug":"now-desktop-users-can-find-out-whats-next-for-opera-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660456","title":{"rendered":"Now desktop users can find out what\u2019s next for Opera, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February of this year, Opera announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/02\/13\/why-is-opera-moving-to-webkit-because-it-has-to\/\">major revamp<\/a> of its browser portfolio that involved ripping out and replacing some key components \u2013 in a nutshell, the innards of Opera&#8217;s new browser now resemble Google&#8217;s Chrome a heck of a lot more than they previously did. The first version of the browser to make an appearance was that for Android: it <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/03\/05\/operas-new-android-beta-is-out-and-it-includes-some-pretty-big-changes\/\">came out in beta<\/a> in March, and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.opera.browser&amp;hl=en\">arrived in full<\/a> a week ago. <\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s the turn of Windows and OS X users. Again, this is a beta we&#8217;re talking about (although Opera calls it a &#8220;Next version&#8221;), but it does show off what is to be expected in the full release of Opera 15.<\/p>\n<p>Those features should mostly be familiar from the Android version, but here&#8217;s a quick run-down anyway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Speed Dial<\/strong> \u2013 For those unfamiliar with Opera, this pretty much refers to bookmarks. And, like bookmarks, they can now be organized into folders. Speed Dial also seems to give Opera a chance to earn some cash from partners such as Twitter and Facebook, whose services it puts front-and-center in this feature.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discover<\/strong> &#8212; This feature is a bit like Google Currents, in that it brings up articles according to the user&#8217;s tastes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stash<\/strong> &#8212; This one&#8217;s new: a read-later facility designed to reduce the necessity of having tons of tabs open at once. Just click on the heart button to &#8220;stash&#8221; a page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Search<\/strong> &#8212; You can now search from the address bar in Opera, same as in Chrome and co.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The look of the browser has also been refreshed to make it more platform-appropriate and, of course, there are big changes under the hood. Opera 15 uses the Chromium engine and its &#8220;Off-Road&#8221; data-squeezing mode \u2013 previously known as Turbo \u2013 now supports Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/03\/06\/heres-how-to-speed-up-your-browsing-in-chrome-beta-for-android\/\">SPDY protocol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only other major thing to bear in mind for existing Opera desktop users is that the new version doesn&#8217;t have an integrated mail service. 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