Opera 53 released

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What's new in Opera 53:

This build revamps the appearance of tabs and the address bar. Take a glance below to find out more:

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Optimization of a tab’s display

Mac users find it difficult to locate and manage a particular tab when many of them are open. We figured out a way to optimize this and made your plentiful tabs’ favicons more visible. Let’s see how it changed:

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To make it even more visible and easier to manage, clicking on a tab will expand it.

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Address bar colors

There is also some fresh, sharpened coloring done to the address bar.

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Chromium was updated to version 66.0.3359.139.

Opera 53.0.2907.37 changelog:

DNA-68681 [win] Fix the name of checkbox in installer window
DNA-69186 Handle displaying tips that contain an icon
DNA-69258 Add sidebar hint when Ctrl+T is hit
DNA-69285 Empty bar on left side when Opera maximized on Windows
DNA-69409 [Mac] Instant search loses focus when clicking on sidebar
DNA-69432 [IS] Demon above search box is badly scaled for some DPI settings
DNA-69435 [Patch] Remove Yandex Ads from first page Instant Search
DNA-69448 Beautify shortcuts in Tips’n tricks
DNA-69450 Enabling Instant Search makes Opera window corners squared
DNA-69452 Prepare “Yx 03” partner content
DNA-69476 The animation for hiding imp is missing
DNA-69479 Text doesn’t fit bubble hint in some languages
DNA-69483 Google icon on search with different search engine
DNA-69488 Test suite for showing and searching using Instant Search part16
DNA-69491 Remove hint “Press tab…” under search box
DNA-69495 Search in tabs doesn’t find the current one
DNA-69499 Tab switcher button elements are not destroyed when they disappear
DNA-69508 Translations for O53 RC (25.04.2018)
DNA-69517 [Settings]Unable to put passphrase because advanced settings not reachable
DNA-69537 No favicon for instant search
DNA-69543 Instant search window cut off on first attempt
DNA-69557 Test suite for showing and searching using Instant Search part17
DNA-69560 Crash when Flow API used with Flow disabled
DNA-69578 Test suite for showing and searching using Instant Search part18
DNA-69594 Incorrect sidebar hint state after closing
DNA-69598 No close (‘X’) button in sidebar hints
DNA-69604 [Mac] Main window not focused after closing Instant Search
DNA-69628 Promote desktop-stable-66-2907 to stable stream
DNA-69640 Crash at opera::avro::Value::GetArrayLen()
DNA-69652 Polish – “Selfie bubble” – wrong translation
DNA-69655 Send tabs and history once per hour