Opera 17 Released

[zokudu]

Opera 17 just went stable. Big features are the return of Pinned Tabs, Startup Options and Custom Search Engines.

So here we go, Opera Desktop 17 has been promoted to Final, which means that summer-backed features are now polished and available to you officially. Some highlights include:

Pinned tabs - got tabs you want always open? Right click on a tab to pin it so you can't accidentally close it.

Startup options - by default, Opera always starts where you finished the last session. Go to O>Settings and, in "On startup" choose between "Continue where I left off", "Open the Start Page", "Open a specific page or set of pages".

Custom search engines - besides pre-installed search providers that Opera ships, now you can add your own searches. For example, to configure "d" to search DuckDuckGo, choose O>Manage Search Engines, and under "Other Search Engines" add "DDG" in the first input field, "d" in the second to define the shortcut and "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s" in the third. This tells Opera which URL to send your search query to, and "%s" is where it adds your search query. We're working on a search field context menu option to make it even easier to do this.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

 

[taq8ojh]

You did something funky with the link...

 

[nemesismk2]

thanks for the info about opera 17

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thank you.. do you know when they will be enabling bookmarks again?

 

[zokudu]

You did something funky with the link...

AT blocks the my.opera.com blog pages, I changed the link to the main page instead of the article and it seems to have fixed it.

Thank you.. do you know when they will be enabling bookmarks again?

Bookmarks as in the Quick Access Bar are planned for Opera 18 which will be hitting the Next channel soon. As far as the full extent of what the Bookmarks entails I do not know.

 

[evident]

is opera getting any better? I havent switched to any versons with the new engine. and the old one seems to be eating more and more memory as i use it.

 

[Kougar]

Any idea when (or if they will ever) bring back the old, fully customizable interface? I'm using 12.15 and refuse to update just because I prefer to stack tabs vertically on the left edge of the screen. If I'm going to lose that functionality then there's no reason to not just use Chrome or FF...

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Slowly getting better but not quite there imo.. we'll see in the next ver.

 

[darkewaffle]

Updated my Win8 box from Opera 12 to Opera 17. It certainly runs better on Win8 but I hate how Opera was basically gutted in the transition from Presto to Webkit. Definitely keeping to v12 for my other machines until [hopefully] the features re-emerge. As long as the UI customization returns and the sidebar/panels get re-added I'll upgrade eventually, those are probably the two things that are most important to me.

 

[Jodell88]

Where's my Linux version?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Are they supposed to be offering a linux version?

 

[lxskllr]

Are they supposed to be offering a linux version?

They did before the Chromified it. My guess is they'll support it again, but they need to nail down the Win version first.