If you"ve always wanted to take screenshots and selfies in your web browser, you"re in luck. A new beta version of Opera is out that lets you do just that.
The Opera 49 beta, released earlier today, is all about sharing. New tools allow you to capture any part of a web page, and add your own personalizations, such as drawings, shapes and even stickers. You can also add selfies using a new editing menu. And since Opera has a built in messenger, just drag and drop your new creation into conversations with friends.
The new tools include:
- Arrow, to draw attention to something
- Blur, to cover anything private or sensitive
- Pencil, to draw directly on the snapshot or underline text.
- Selfie camera, to add a selfie and make it more personal
- Stickers, because emotions spice up your message
In addition to the social features, the update adds O-menu and history improvements, a refined private mode, custom placement for extensions, and VK messenger in the sidebar. Five new currencies have been added to the currency converter, while improvements were also made for macOS High Sierra.
Here is a full list of the fixes and updates:
49.0.2725.12 – 2017-10-05
- DNA-64285 [Engine] No accessibility title for Detach button
- DNA-64343 [Mac] Part of tab not click-able for activation
- DNA-64349 [Snap] Sticker resize is jumpy sometimes
- DNA-64381 [Mac touchbar] Mask-icons do not work
- DNA-64396 Add some more emoji for snap stickers
- DNA-64410 Fix component autoupdate in Mac client
- DNA-64465 Next button is unavailable in video pop out after first usage
- DNA-64503 Correct Spanish translation
- DNA-64548 [Mac] Pinch to zoom is not working
- DNA-64556 Enable Snap edit flag
- DNA-64594 1st popup window not opening
- DNA-64645 Enable Easy Setup in beta
- DNA-64649 Enable VK messenger on all streams
49.0.2723.0 – 2017-09-25
- DNA-62443 [Mac] Crash at -[CertificateTrustPanelBridge windowWillEnterFullScreen:]
- DNA-63000 Sidebar panel permissions advanced: ask user when a permission is requested
- DNA-63220 Make opera compile with clang on windows.
- DNA-63584 Removal of the last item from the folder should delete the folder and move the last speeddial to main view
- DNA-63703 Remove Click to Play option to align flash settings with chromium
- DNA-63782 [Engine] Cursor moves to beginning of address field on links with target=”_blank”
- DNA-63833 Site blockers badges are cropped
- DNA-63866 [HiDPI] Vertical stripe visible in the dark address bar.
- DNA-63926 [Lin] Private mode has a dark frame
- DNA-64008 [Startpage] Search box: Implement suggestions
- DNA-64046 Favicons and ‘x’ cut in suggestion bar
- DNA-64139 Adblock/VPN pop-ups are totally misplaced
- DNA-64161 Implement Add to Speed Dial functionality
- DNA-64250 Feature flag enabled by default on developer
- DNA-64267 Missing shadows of SD inside folder
- DNA-64268 Long title of folder should be truncated when opening folder
- DNA-64270 Unnecessary prefix in Filipino VR translation
- DNA-64271 [Suggestions] Unsupported context menu Add to Speed Dial
- DNA-64281 New Belarusian currency is BYN not BYR
- DNA-64283 [Mac] VR icon is visible always
- DNA-64298 Fix margins of opened folder, hide Icon easy-setup when inside folder area
- DNA-64301 SettingsPrivate not whitelisted for our component extensions.
- DNA-64302 Mouse scroll click on Reload/Start page button doesn’t open new tab
- DNA-64305 stats flag is not honoured by avro stats sender
- DNA-64309 Upgrade page visible when build number has changed
- DNA-64330 Easy-setup – wallpaper change needs page refresh
- DNA-64333 [News] My sources – removed after page refresh
- DNA-64346 typo in experiment name
- DNA-64351 PL translation is weak
- DNA-64380 Border-radius of SD inside folder is smaller than SD on startpage
- DNA-64389 Add ‘p’ (BYN) to disabled symbols
49.0.2720.0 – 2017-09-21
- DNA-62160 [MacOS High Sierra] Exit full screen – black line between tab bar and menu bar
- DNA-63220 Make opera compile with clang on windows.
- DNA-63522 [Win] Progressbar stopped on ‘installing’
- DNA-63575 [Snap] iframe content not shown inside snap
- DNA-63621 [AdBlock][HiDPI] Informational pop-up window grows unexpected
- DNA-63685 O48 translations integrate with master O49
- DNA-63705 Wrong context menu inside the container of opened folder
- DNA-63746 [Win] “Mute tab” button incorrectly displayed
- DNA-63757 Unpack to target dir – WP1
- DNA-63877 Prepare test suite for reordering extension icons
- DNA-63915 Dark frame on edges of blurred image
- DNA-63935 Allow Ctrl+C while capturing screen to copy what’s marked
- DNA-63939 [Startpage] Add search box component
- DNA-63964 Pop-up blocker does not block.
- DNA-63981 Enable #extension-browser-action-reordering on all streams
- DNA-63990 Lack of minimal size for snapping area
- DNA-64044 ‘x’ appears next to all elements in address bar
- DNA-64055 Fix animated wallpapers in the recent wallpapers section
- DNA-64056 Provide translations to ‘Copy and close’
- DNA-64063 Empty video popout created for some content
- DNA-64074 Add spinner for wallpapers being installed
- DNA-64087 Create Add a Site button and modal
- DNA-64105 Try to make feature descriptions less error prone
- DNA-64108 Rearange currency list
- DNA-64114 Translation – Norwegian
- DNA-64128 Missing partner SD images on first run when no connection
- DNA-64152 pref_default_overrides file is not installed
- DNA-64153 Installation using netinstaller with non-sfx package fails
- DNA-64164 [Mac] Choosing internal / dedicated GPU support broken
- DNA-64165 Remove IDS_DATE_TOMORROW and replace IDS_TIME_CONVERTER strings
- DNA-64167 Missing Norwegian (nb) translations in O48
- DNA-64171 No progress shown for unpacking in the intermediate process
- DNA-64179 [Startpage] Search box: Align to the speeddial width
- DNA-64184 Translations update for VR 360 player
- DNA-64191 Wrong motion of video detach button when media-vr is enabled
- DNA-64194 Create universal modal window
- DNA-64206 [Easy setup] Native scrollbars visible instead of customized
- DNA-64219 Allow file dragging on macOS
- DNA-64225 Linux/Mac not compiling due to unused variable
- DNA-64226 Provide context menu as a plugin
- DNA-64245 Crash at v8::Context::Enter()
- DNA-64252 When folder is open it does not remain after the page refresh
49.0.2711.0 – 2017-09-11
- DNA-60749 Remove diagnostic code comes from DNA-59561 bug
- DNA-62160 [MacOS High Sierra] Exit full screen – black line between tab bar and menu bar
- DNA-62940 [Mac] Allow removal of suggested elements in the addressbar
- DNA-63369 [Mac] Crash at views::BridgedNativeWidget::Init(base::scoped_nsobject, views::Widget::InitParams const&)
- DNA-63602 [Mac] Sound indicator and mute tab in tab menu is no longer accessible
- DNA-63619 Edit dialog of SD in opened folder not visible
- DNA-63704 [HiDPI] O-menu’s, context menu’s borders are missing.
- DNA-63705 Wrong context menu inside the container of opened folder
- DNA-63772 PGO failing
- DNA-63793 Enabling VPN crashes Opera on Linux
- DNA-63798 Renderer freezes after closing popup with ESC
- DNA-63804 [HiDPI] Dragging tab flashing after DPI change.
- DNA-63829 Use different tagNames for root-components
- DNA-63831 [HiDPI] Auto-filing is totally misplaced after DPI change.
- DNA-63858 [Server suggestions] with matching pattern: show for whitelisted history url, don’t display history url if server suggestion is displayed
- DNA-63860 Strange shadow on the new private mode splash screen.
- DNA-63861 Missing SD image when user selects fallback icon via heart menu
- DNA-63865 Image of suggestion added to SD changes to fallback icon
- DNA-63874 [Easy setup] “Get more wallpapers” links to hard-coded English version of Opera add-ons page
- DNA-63876 Add opauto tests from new advanced settings for Start Page
- DNA-63878 [HiDPI] Checkboxes are misplaced and badly scaled
- DNA-63883 [Mac High Sierra] No animation on tab hover
- DNA-63887 [Suggestions] Blacklisted suggestions do not ignore www prefix
- DNA-63891 Fix test with history pattern after DNA-63858
- DNA-63894 [Mac High Sierra] Broken drop target animation in extensions sidebar
- DNA-63898 [News] Remove #personal-news-search-box code
- DNA-63903 [Mac] Unable to activate tabs of certain width
- DNA-63907 [Win7] Private mode has a dark frame
- DNA-63908 [Linux] Missing libc++.so in debug build
- DNA-63922 Easy Setup icon is moving
- DNA-63923 [Mac] testShowToolbarInFullscreen not stable
- DNA-63939 [Startpage] Add search box component
- DNA-63941 Create diagnostic code for sync crash
- DNA-63942 Minimal window size adjustment
- DNA-63944 Wrong cache location
- DNA-63945 O48 – Kill “New feature – dark skin hint”
- DNA-63962 Change /themes/ to /wallpapers/ to avoid redirects
- DNA-63970 Titles of suggestions not visible
- DNA-63972 Add opauto test for DNA-63155 – don’t show SDs suggestions in address bar
- DNA-63977 [Mac High Sierra] Search popup font is too dark
- DNA-63984 Extend list of supported HTML attributes
- DNA-64010 [win] Empty Startpage
49.0.2705.0 – 2017-09-05
- DNA-60729 New tab is opened when the sidebar is unpinned for the first time.
- DNA-60813 Crash at content::HandleDebugURL(GURL const&, ui::PageTransition)
- DNA-60955 Leftovers on GOTH after desktop_browsertests.exe
- DNA-61014 [HiDPI] Extension icons are blurred.
- DNA-61749 Our mp3 splitter is not robust enough.
- DNA-61775 Dark theme’s hint is not drawn correctly.
- DNA-62020 [Win7][HiDPI] Checkboxes are blurred
- DNA-62140 [Win][HiDPI] Horizontal lines in menus are blurred.
- DNA-62737 Wallpaper ‘overlay’ has bad contrast on speed dial
- DNA-62743 [Mac] Crash URL set as “URL-1”
- DNA-62841 [Mac High Sierra] Wrong tab position after drag and drop
- DNA-62995 Warning dialog when trying to import from Edge when Edge is running done.
- DNA-63043 [HiDPI] Screen flash when drag tab
- DNA-63214 Empty sidebar when unpinned in opera:flags
- DNA-63262 [HiDPI] Unable to attach tab to window
- DNA-63264 [WebUI] Wrong internal page title when navigating from external page
- DNA-63286 WP3 for removing O46 stable features
- DNA-63319 The Youtube widget changes geolocation to incorrect.
- DNA-63390 Switch the easy-setup flag on Developer
- DNA-63394 Add support for lazy-loaded wallpapers
- DNA-63395 Add event to notify of default browser setting changed
- DNA-63407 Extend Start Page section in settings
- DNA-63426 Logging out from messenger clears all localStorage data
- DNA-63504 Change the translation in the Adblocker description
- DNA-63534 Empty suggestions in address bar during first session
- DNA-63539 Recently closed tabs in O-menu requested features implemented.
- DNA-63583 Add margin and min-witdth to container with Folder-SDs
- DNA-63608 Unable to change theme by click on Light/Dark label
- DNA-63609 [Mac] Viewport not centered when zooming in on bottom of the image
- DNA-63626 [Win] Battery icon incorrectly rendered when window is not maximized
- DNA-63627 Crash when closing private window while websites is loading through VPN
- DNA-63629 [Win][HiDPI] Search engine icons are blurred
- DNA-63635 Reborn tab divider drawing nitpicks
- DNA-63637 [Windows 7] Omnibox.testSelectiveRemovalOfDropdownSuggestionsInAddressBar fails when Aero is off
- DNA-63638 Toolbar divider not colorized
- DNA-63659 Netflix not working on O48 and O49
- DNA-63661 Use the larger assets for the stickers on canvas
- DNA-63664 Support installing remote wallpapers
- DNA-63665 Default size for stickers should be 10% of window
- DNA-63671 [Wn7-32] PlatformDemuxerAudioReadTest.Read_Audio/4 fails
- DNA-63681 Replace ‘Najlepsza lokalizacja’ with ‘Optymalna lokalizacja’ in Polish copy in the browser
- DNA-63724 Download button graphics update
- DNA-63736 [Mac] Unable to drag window by dragging the bottom part of tab bar
- DNA-63758 Private mode visuals – update, WP1
- DNA-63763 [Win10][HiDPI] Spinning loading icon is not updated on DPI change
- DNA-63768 Add overlay button for wallpaper removal
- DNA-63769 Disable synchronization of the “media_engagement” content setting
- DNA-63784 Private mode symbol update – WP1
- DNA-63787 [Startpage] Hide speeddial section when needed
- DNA-63790 Add opauto test for DNA-60729.
- DNA-63794 Patch the sync testserver so that we can simulate the media_engagement production fixes
- DNA-63795 Mac Views native event location wrongly calculated
- DNA-63803 [Startpage] Move easy setup to speeddial view
- DNA-63816 Use new au test server for NI
- DNA-63818 [Mac] Crash after clicking on Content blocked badge
- DNA-63822 Fallback image used for SD after adding it using Heart menu
- DNA-63823 [Linux] Check for non-I/O functions in thread fails
- DNA-63830 Adding removed wallpapers doesnt work
- DNA-63836 Unittest for theme removal & installed state
- DNA-63839 [Mac] Wrong position of tabs in tab bar
- DNA-63847 Add keyboard shortcuts
- DNA-63849 Refine keyboard shortcuts
- DNA-63850 [Easy Setup] “Show Speed Dial suggestions” doesn’t work
- DNA-63856 [Easy setup] Hard-coded link for “Learn more”
49.0.2695.0 – 2017-08-28
- DNA-59819 JS can’t write to clipboard when opera started by opauto webdriver
- DNA-61772 [Engine] Link selection doesn’t work in all cases
- DNA-61803 [Win] Bookmarks folder icon in bookmarks bar is outdated
- DNA-61897 Enable downloading sfx packages by installer for beta and Stable streams
- DNA-61941 Browser freeze on disabling switch in vpn dialog during page loading
- DNA-61987 Implement missing general layout features
- DNA-62184 Misleading installer logs for wininet & proxy login error details
- DNA-62256 [Mac] Popup windows is too wide when full URL is displayed
- DNA-62333 [Reborn] [Dark theme] Messengers’ Title bar doesn’t have same color as active tab bar
- DNA-62395 [HiDPI] Spinning loading icon is blurred.
- DNA-62406 [Linux] Global dark theme on Gnome3 is not supported
- DNA-62414 Pinned messengers opens on browser start
- DNA-62487 State of startpage not restored on navigation “back”
- DNA-62644 Cleanup CrashLogger class and move it to desktop/browser
- DNA-62705 [Mac High Sierra] Black window when reduced transparency turned on
- DNA-62813 Domain name highlight matches in the subdomain part of host
- DNA-62896 [hidpi] Wrong area captured after scrolling
- DNA-62993 Opauto test form MRU history entries from OMenu implemented
- DNA-62995 Warning dialog when trying to import from Edge when Edge is running done.
- DNA-63117 mic/cam dialogs in the badge area show redundant information
- DNA-63172 [Win] Page crashes in video popout
- DNA-63203 Adjust folder height to number of rows with speeddials and size of browser
- DNA-63213 [Mac] Unable to close tab with authentication dialog opened
- DNA-63219 Show elided URL in recently closed if page doesn’t have a title
- DNA-63228 [Mac] Suggested part of URL goes black when you hit Enter to load the page
- DNA-63240 Sometimes it is impossible to scroll in snapshot mode
- DNA-63247 WP2 for removing O46 stable features
- DNA-63252 Part 2: Move more common parts of UI/silent controllers to base class
- DNA-63285 Kill [Capture full site], revoke [Capture full screen]
- DNA-63296 Crash at opera::LockedImportantFileWriterImpl::ReleaseLockOnImportantWriterRunner(std::unique_ptr, base::Callback)
- DNA-63299 [Win] CTRL + W is not closing snap window
- DNA-63317 Web Budget API exposed but not wired up
- DNA-63326 Create opr.defaultBrowserPrivate API
- DNA-63330 [Windows] autoupdateoperaclient package broken
- DNA-63350 Crash in Opera::RemoveShutdownObserver (called from RestartController::~RestartController)
- DNA-63355 Report more info for feedback dialog WP1
- DNA-63362 Bump major version number to 49 on master
- DNA-63367 [Win] Bookmarks icon is colored wrong
- DNA-63388 Create initial version of the panel behind a flag
- DNA-63396 Enable address-bar-item-delete-suggestion-button on all streams
- DNA-63398 Enable persistent-closed-tabs on all streams
- DNA-63399 Enable shortcut-startup-url-filtering on all streams
- DNA-63400 Enable search popup converters on all streams
- DNA-63402 Enable snap on all streams
- DNA-63416 Easy Setup panel polishing
- DNA-63438 FFmpegDemuxerTest.* fail
- DNA-63465 Do not show #address-bar-item-delete-suggestion-button flag on Mac
- DNA-63471 Platform demuxer tests broken by change of test file
- DNA-63478 Selecting text on internal pages doesn’t work.
- DNA-63480 Easy setup – switches are too small
- DNA-63481 Easy setup – click on Speed Dial to close panel
- DNA-63482 Duplicated DataSourceLoader object code
- DNA-63483 Easy setup – separators
- DNA-63484 Unnecessary scrollbars in big snap image
- DNA-63487 Background in Snap window is white instead of gray
- DNA-63488 Sliding bar animation starts on toolbar
- DNA-63500 [Mac] Sliding bar not displayed
- DNA-63518 [Mac] Unable to load pages saved in history
- DNA-63524 siteprefs.json not applied correctly after redirect from Google Auth
- DNA-63533 Clicking labels doesn’t do anything
- DNA-63540 [Mac] Cursor moves to beginning of address field while loading page
- DNA-63541 Implement zoom stepping
- DNA-63543 Add arrow tool to the toolbar
- DNA-63544 [Mac] Crash while closing window using shortcut when text is selected
- DNA-63546 Support live reload for CSS files
- DNA-63548 PushMessaging doesn’t have unittest
- DNA-63558 Unable to run Mac builds – resources corrupted
- DNA-63560 “location.country” in Local State is not read from system settings
- DNA-63563 Handle network errors in getRemoteThemes
- DNA-63572 Add onboarding tooltip
- DNA-63587 Update theme installation time on setCurrent API call
- DNA-63598 Add opauto test for selective removal of suggestions in address bar
- DNA-63599 [Mac] Close Window and Minimise menu options greyed out
- DNA-63605 Do not exit full screen mode when ESC closes panel
- DNA-63606 [Mac] Crash when closing snap edit window with onboarding tooltip visible
The VR360 player for virtual reality headsets has been disabled for now, but will be re-enabled in a later update of Opera 49. You can grab the Windows version, the macOS version, and the Linux packages from the official site.