Opera released Opera 16 based on Chromium 29

Opera recently officially released a stable version of Opera 16 web browser using Chromium 29 engine with many new enhancements related to API utilities and added support for location recognition service.

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Bringing a lot of new changes, this version will support the HTML5 protocol on the desktop to be smoother, along with adding the W3C Geolocation API utility, which allows you to standardize an interface to Get the device's geographic location information, such as being able to use it on sites like Foursquare to make it easier for services to identify locations.

Besides, the stable version of Opera 16 for Windows and Mac OS will still carry the same features as before, such as auto-fill forms, full-screen mode on Mac computers and " jump lists" for help. Better direction on Windows. In addition, other features like Speed ​​Dial, Stash, Discover, and Off-Road will also be upgraded to make the browser work best.

Also related to the two early versions using Chromium, Opera 16 will be added to chrome.cookies and chrome.history utilities, both API utilities that have appeared on Opera 15 but not just that.

This new version also provides developers with more utility models to help them build the equivalent of processing tools, and this version of Opera 16 also shows a way of eliminating the 6-bit limit. utility appears on the browser main interface.

It is known that since converting the operating engine from Presto to Chromium platform starting from Opera 15, there have been more than 300 extensions available to this version so far and also include a lot of services. Currently popular are Evernote, Pocket, Yandex, Pinterest, LastPass and Feedly.

Continuing on its development path, earlier this month Opera also released the first development version of Opera 17 with the Chromium 30 platform, promising to bring back the tab pinning feature. on Opera 12 and many other improvements.