Opera Next for Windows 15.0.1147.44 Beta

Windows 7/8/Vista/XP / Freeware




The
days when major browser updates were few and far between are over.
Nowadays, it’s de rigueur for browser manufacturers to speed up
development, which means opening up less stable builds to the masses in
order to get them bug-checked as quickly as possible.

Opera is no
exception, and Opera Next adopts the same approach to Firefox Aurora in
providing a completely separate installation of the latest unstable
version of Opera for people to road-test without affecting their
day-to-day browsing.

The reasoning is simple: you get to try out
the new features without affecting your existing installation, so if
the developmental version is too buggy for your tastes, you can use your
tried and trusted version, no problem. And because Opera Next updates
as soon as the latest development build is released, you can keep
checking back regularly to see what’s up and coming and whether the bugs
you’ve encountered have been fixed yet.

You’ll be able to
differentiate between stable and developmental build by the colour of
the program icon: Opera’s icon remains red, while Opera Next’s icon is
silver grey, meaning it’ll be safe for even relatively inexperienced
users to try out new features before they become generally available.

This is a preview of the forthcoming v15.

The latest build, 15.0.1147.44, contains these fixes/changes:

- Chromium upgraded to latest beta (28.0.1500.37)
- Crash and stability issues
- Profile migration (from Opera 12)
- Performance improvements on Mac

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