Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

Mac and Linux are not affected, and will not receive a 12.17 update.

All I can say is that I've installed 12.17 over 12.16 and so far I didn't notice any inconvenience.

For example, version 12.15 was supposed to only fix some security issue over 12.14, but also messed up search engines as an additional undocumented feature.

The team here put a lot of effort into getting Aura to work properly with Opera and the benefits are already paying off. Aura allows for smoother, snappier animations with a more responsive feel. So far, we have only scratched the surface of this technology, and Opera 21’s primary intention was to get Aura working and stable. In the future, you will see further benefits as it allows us to give everything that little extra bit of polish!

Address field option

This feature might seem small but we feel we should highlight it, as it has often been requested. We now provide an option to make Opera persistently show a page’s complete URL in the address field.

You mean a solution to my problem with hardware acceleration is to replace X? How do you replace X in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Wouldn't this lead to yet more package conflicts? I have found Ubuntu the least flexible distro of them all.

One way to reduce data consumption is to minimize the 'click link, click back, click another link, click back, click...' nature of web browsing. This concept would help:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4f367181-33a7-402b-af9d-a2b5779f38f2/action?threadDisplayName=book-mode-for-internet-explorer&forum=windowsdeveloperpreviewgeneral

It means running the browser in a 2-pane mode, where 1 pane (usually left) is deemed the source pane, and the other pane is deemed the target pane. The source pane is temporarily locked, allowing the receive pane to display the linked pages. Be the first browser to do this!

I don't know if Opera was the first browser to do that, but what you're describing sounds an awful lot like create linked window coupled with MDI. To quote from, e.g., the Opera 8.52 help pages, a linked window constitutes a "new page in which to open links clicked in current page."

A long time ago, web sites started detecting the name and version of the visitor’s browser to adjust in various ways or throw tauntrums and demand upgrades.

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And web developers still apparently feel comfortable deploying this:

Opera Portal is closed.
But, you can search Google to get the latest news, entertainment and sports.

I thought the Opera Portal had been turned into the native web version of Opera Discover when they removed the customization options. I guess I was wrong.

Do you mean they don't share the back-end?

Opera Portal is closed.
But, you can search Google to get the latest news, entertainment and sports.

http://tease.ruario.fastmail.fm.user.fm/opera-about.png
#ohnohedidnt

Following the teaser, Opera released Opera Developer for Linux: http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2014/06/opera-24-linux-released-developer-stream/

It seems that it looks like Ubuntu for now.

Ruarí Ødegaard Mod • 4 hours ago

What the ....!? I never expected this!!!

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    Marcin Mitek Mod Ruarí Ødegaard • 4 hours ago

    It's obviously a fake.

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        Jonathan Aanesen Mod Marcin Mitek • 4 hours ago

        Agreed, no way this can be real.

    ahoj1234 Ruarí Ødegaard • 4 hours ago

    I love when dev guys are trolling on their own blog

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        Johnny Jones Jones ahoj1234 • 16 minutes ago

        It just comes off as immature and unprofessional to me.

        I want to use a browser developed by real adults, not just a bunch of man-children who mock their ever-dwindling user base after having treated them like faeces for over a year.

Not at Opera Software as such, but the Alibaba purchase of UCWeb was a miniquake.

On August 8, shares of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, under the ticker symbol “BABA,” will go on sale to the public. It has the potential to be the largest tech IPO in history and perhaps one of the largest IPOs in history, period. Yet Alibaba remains a mystery and an unknown quantity to most  investors, business people and consumers located outside of China.

For those of us who work in China, engage in China related business, who are trying to reach Chinese consumers and work in e-commerce in the US and China, we all know the name Alibaba, but it is easy to forget that almost no one else does.  Even those involved with the intersection of China, e-commerce and consumption don’t have a full understanding of what Alibaba is, what it does and what it is planning on doing.

It’s helpful to start with this: Alibaba is the largest e-commerce company on EARTH. Alibaba processed more than  $248 billion of online transactions in 2013,  and handled 70% of all packages delivered in that time, all in China. To put that in perspective, the number two e-commerce company in the world, Amazon processed $100 billion and number three, eBay EBAY +1.25% $76 billion in online transactions.  On the Chinese “Singles Day” holiday, Nov. 11, the company processed $5.75 billion in online purchases, in one day.  More than that year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined in the U.S.