Opera 12 Released!!

[Chiefcrowe]

Faster! Sweet!!

changelog
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1200

good overview article here
http://arstechnica.com/information-...th-webcam-apis-and-experimental-webgl-support

 

[Raghu]

Do remember to turn on hardware acceleration, and disable smooth scrolling.

 

[bruceb]

Upgrading it now.

 

[jkroeder]

Do remember to turn on hardware acceleration, and disable smooth scrolling.

Haha, I would do the exact opposite. I tried hardware acceleration and like Firefox, it changes the way fonts look and I hate it.

Smooth scrolling, on the other hand, Opera does it better than any other browser I've tried.

 

[Raghu]

Oops, was not clear earlier. If you do turn HWA on, then I find it better to disable smooth scrolling.

I prefer smooth scrolling off all the time though.

I feel there will be a 12.01 soon. Seen a few crashes already.

 

[tommo123]

doesnt work for me. can't handle too many tabs and just cuts a load off when loading a saved session

 

[Anubis]

i don't notice a difference between smooth scrolling on vs off

 

[joejoe666]

i have opera 12.00 32bit.

would 64bit make it faster? and how? also if switch to 64 bit, how can i keep my existing customs button locations and settings?

 

[Anubis]

when i used the 64 beta it imported everything just fine, however i cant seem to find 64 final anywhere

 

[Raghu]

http://www.opera.com/browser/download/

Click on "More Options". Choose 64bit.

 

[Mem]

Just auto updated,Opera my favourite browser .


Btw this is how to enable hardware acceleration,

Opera 12.00 can now use hardware acceleration from GPU to render websites,Opera Interface itself and WebGL. Unfortunately this feature is disabled by default.

However you can easly activated it.

1) Type in address bar opera:config#UserPrefs
2) Find "Enable Hardware Acceleration" and set value to 1
3) Find "Enable WebGL" and set value to 1
4) Press Save (which is on bottom on User Prefs section)
5)Restart Opera

 

[zokudu]

How is everyones experience with hardware accel? Worth turning on?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I'd try it and see what you think. I don't have a very good video card on this machine so i don't think it's helping that much.

 

[joejoe666]

ok i downloaded and installed 64 bit. now i have both versions on my machine...how can i export all my settings (speed dial, passwords, etc) from 32bit to 64 bit?

 

[gmaster456]

I think hardware accel. is worth it on FF. I'll have to see how it is in Opera.

 

[bruceb]

You can use this tool to move all your settings from 32 bit Opera to 64 bit Opera

Stu's Opera Settings Import & Export Tool

http://my.opera.com/Disco%20Stu/blog/opera-settings-import-export-tool

 

[lopri]

I like the hardware acceleration so far but it may take some getting used to, and Opera will probably need to polish up a bit. Small fonts do look a tad fuzzy (but nowhere near as bad as Safari or some sites under IE9), but overall it feels snappy.

Bigger issue (if it is) is that each tab seems to eat up video memory. GPU-Z doesn't have process monitor but when I closed Opera w/ 6 tabs, it freed nearly 300 MB of video memory.

Overall I'd say give it a try. You can always turn it off if you don't like anyway.

 

[TuxDave]

Yay!

 

[Pretty Cool]

Stupid version 12 now has these tiny dots instead of larger icons on each tab. This must be a bug as I cannot imagine that this is the default.

 

[Anubis]

Stupid version 12 now has these tiny dots instead of larger icons on each tab. This must be a bug as I cannot imagine that this is the default.

example? i still see icons on tabs

 

[Mem]

example? i still see icons on tabs

Yep normal icons on my tabs too, he could try a clean install of Opera 12 and see if that clears it up.

 

[Pretty Cool]

I would never clean install to begin with, but it looks like others are seeing this as well. Hence, it is an Opera issue. The 1st picture in this guy's post is what it looks like:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1433812

Here are 2 other threads mentioning it:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1441592

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1435512

 

[rh71]

ever since O12 only anandtech & its forums are slow as molasses for me. All other websites are ok. Very strange - cleared cache and cookies.

 

[tommo123]

i went back to 11 but this forum was slow as shite yest. seems ok today though

 

[rh71]

wtf happened to my settings? I followed the above for hardware acceleration and soon noticed this. I reversed the 2 settings and it's still like that. I reverted back to 11.64 and it's still like that. Every site. Looks like a CSS rendering issue or something?

http://www.imagebam.com/image/d38b76197100831

Or if anyone knows where my settings including my speeddial and mouse gesture settings are kept, I'd like to do a fresh install to see if something got corrupt.

EDIT>> grrrr, uninstalled and reinstalled and same thing. Is it something in the opera:config? I've been using IE all day and it makes me realize how much I depend on Opera.