Opera 45 received a new body

Of course, there have also been changes under the hood, but what will be striking at first is the new outfit of the browser. The developers attributed a kind of reborn to the latest, stable release of Opera.

Based on browser feedback from the Opera Neon concept released in January this year, programmers have come to the conclusion that the time of the grand general has arrived at some points. For tighter integration with social services, Opera carries Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram bookmarks in its 45 sidebar, so you can continue browsing while chatting with a large enough display. It is worth noting that the feature can be turned off with a click if required, and the range of supported services will be expanded soon. Although “Reborn” is fully optimized for Windows 7, it still got a dark theme that is obviously consistent with the Windows 10 template running under a similar name. The user interface has not remained untouched either, it is worth mentioning the completely new set of icons, in addition, we can see below, the private mode got another quite spectacular, but at the same time not at all easy to digest presentation.

Opera stirred the stagnant water thoroughly with a built-in ad blocker released a couple of months ago, although the version at the time still had serious flaws. The situation has now substantially improved, with factory-activated Easylist and EasyPrivacy filters added to other lists such as Adblock Warning Removal and Malware Block.

Also not to be overlooked is the fact that Opera 45 is able to use the graphics processor in more video formats than before, thus relieving the CPU. In addition to faster display, this also reduces energy consumption. A little caution is that from now on, the browser will warn you about any form that does not handle data traffic over an HTTPS connection.

Finally, there are some other important new features to the Chromium 58 base, including IndexedDB 2.0 support (creating and managing databases stored on the client side) and improvements to the Selection API.