14 DAY TRIAL // The Opera developers have released yet another update for their Internet browser, and they closed a number of small bugs, among other things.
The Opera browser is now on feature parity on Linux with the other platforms, and that means the application gets updated for everyone at the same pace. The latest Opera 30.x branch has been around for some time, and it looks like its reign is coming to an end, but until then we'll still get minor updates like the one from today.
Now that Opera is using Chromium as the base, things are progressing much faster and lots of updates land all the time. It's also true that nothing really exciting happens when a new version gets released, with the exception of stuff like dpkg usage. The developers explained that users with dpkg lower than version 1.17 had some problems with the Opera packages but that the issues have been fixed.
Latest Opera release is ready for download
"We wanted to bump the version number to the round number 128, but we didn’t make it… Anyway, here’s another stabilization/bugfixing update for our Stable channel – Opera 30. Chromium was updated to version 43.0.2357.130. This build contains a fix for PDF files reader bug, that caused some of the files to be lacking all or most of the characters. It also has one crash fix, packaging adjustments on Linux platform and the issue with address field focus on Mac solved," is noted in the official announcement.
According to the changelog, a font loading problem with the Chrome PDF plugin has been fixed, dpkg 1.17 features are now being used, a rare crash has been fixed, and pressing Enter in empty address field no longer removes focus for the Mac OS X platform.
You can download the latest Opera 30 for Linux from Softpedia, and the Windows and Mac OS X versions can be downloaded from the same page. Enjoy!