Opera Developer 52 initial release

January 16th, 2018

Hi,

Today, we’re unveiling the very first of Opera developer from the 52 line. Based on Chromium 65, today’s build improves tabs handling and introduces a new, convenient way to select and copy multiple page addresses at once. Keep on reading.

Multiple tabs selection

We are introducing a new solution to help you manage and execute actions on multiple tabs at once with a few clicks of your mouse with multiple tabs selection. Selecting multiple individual tabs can be done by holding Ctrl (⌘ on macOS) and clicking on the tabs, or you can select a range of tabs, from left to right, by holding Shift and clicking on a tab.

We think this improvement to tab manipulation will be very useful for managing tabs of differing purposes. The context menu for tabs is equipped with a new function called “Copy page address” which copies page addresses to your clipboard. It becomes really useful when you want to send a bunch of pages to your friend. Also, rather than saving your entire current browsing session for a future session, you can pick and choose particular tabs you wish to store for later in a Speed Dial folder.

You will be able to run the same commands with multiple tabs selected as you can with a single tab, including reload, duplicate, pin, close, mute or save as a Speed Dial. Note that you can close a tab by holding alt and clicking it. Previously, and as still done in the stable and beta builds, you would use the Shift key plus a click.

Chromium version 65.0.3298.4.