A new version of the Opera desktop browser 10/12 beta

Norwegian company Opera Software ASA announced that likes to make surprises for users of their browsers, and today, with the release of Opera 12.10 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux, she made many useful new features for developers.

Now developers can modify Opera extensions and browser context menu (also known as a user right-click menu). With this API the opportunity to add to the context menu of the new functionality that makes it easier to work with social networks, online translators and many other popular services.

Through the use of API to create screen developers extensions, Opera users have easy and fast way to show your friends what they see in the window of your browser.

A new API will allow the add Opera to use your own CSS and JavaScript to improve or change the function and design of web pages. For example, you can replace the family Comic Sans font to Helvetica, or use the advanced features of JavaScript at all to browse the web.

Increasing the number of supported web standards, the company added support Fullscreen API and Page Visibility API, allowing developers to better control the display of the page content and optimize the use of resources browser.

Opera 12.10 includes support for the latest implementation of Web Sockets with advanced functionality for developers and improved performance for end users. And this support is enabled by default.

At the head of a long list of improvements and speed networking standard is presented as a supplement to the SPDY protocol HTML, promising a significant acceleration of loading web pages. In Opera 12.10 support SPDY is enabled by default and works with Web pages that support this standard. For example, such a massive web-sites like Twitter or Gmail, SPDY support the standard in addition to the traditional HTML protocol.

In both worlds - Windows and Mac - this fall there were notable changes in operating systems. The new version of Opera 12.10 includes several new features that allow better use of the new features of these operating systems.

With the release of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, a host of new features built directly into the system. Opera 12.10 for Mac supports new items such as Notification Center, Retina Display and built-in publishing content on social networks.

Soon, Windows 8 will be available to the public, and Opera 12.10 includes support for some features of this OS. In particular, we added support for touch-mode Windows 8 Classic, and as a bonus - similar support in Windows 7.