Download Opera 52.0.2871.30

Opera has released version 52 of its web browser of the same name. Opera switched from its in-house render engine Presto to Blink four years ago. This is part of Chromium, which is also used by Google Chrome, among others. Opera is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. There are also versions for BSD and Solaris, but they are still based on the old technology. In version 52 we find the following changes and improvements:

Faster ad blocker

Opera’s built-in ad blocker was implemented over two years agoand earlier this year it added security against cryptojacking with the NoCoin Cryptocurrency Mining Protection feature. From the outset of introducing the ad blocker, Opera has stayed committed to providing the fastest, safest and most interruption-free browsing experience. In today’s update, Opera is focusing on the speed of the ad blocker.

Opera 52’s ad blocker is now faster than its predecessor and outperformed the recently unveiled ad blocking contender from Google Chrome. Thanks to improved string matching algorithms, Opera’s ad blocker mechanism got increased performance gains to assist in faster page loading.

To prove this, we pitted Opera 52 to a page loading speed test against Opera 51 and Chrome 64 with its ad blocker. The browsers were tasked with loading 15 popular news websites at times each. The results of this benchmark test showed that Opera 52 performs 16 percent faster than Opera 51 and 44 percent than Chrome 64.

Read more about how the Chrome and Opera ad blockers compared in our benchmark tests here.

Select multiple tabs and copy page addresses

Browsing with several tabs opened at one time is not uncommon for many users. Opera 52 enhances the way users can manage their tabs, including selecting and executing actions on multiple tabs, copying multiple page addresses at once and a new keyboard shortcut for closing tabs.

Users can select multiple tabs by holding down Ctrl while clicking on each desired tab (? + click for macOS users). Additionally, holding down Shift and clicking on a tab will select all other tabs to its right. We think this improvement to tab manipulation will prove to be very useful.

These new solutions permit users to reload, close, pin, mute or save to Speed ​​Dial their selected tabs instead of performing the actions individually or on all tabs. When multiple tabs are selected, the context menu can be pulled up by right-clicking (or Ctrl-clicking on Mac). Moreover, rather than saving an entire browsing session as a Speed ​​Dial folder, for example, web surfers can pluck out the tabs needed for later and save them to a new folder.

A new functionality in the tabs’ context menu to note is Copy page address(es). After selecting one or multiple tabs, users can click this action to copy the web URLs of the sites to their clipboard for easy pasting later on. This is a great way to send family, friends or yourself a batch of important web pages.

Finally, tabs can be closed by holding Alt while clicking it. This was previously done by holding Shift while clicking on the tab.

New animations

Error pages tend to raise our blood pressure. Who wouldn’t be upset by a DNS error, right? We decided to make this experience a tad more pleasant by introducing some cool animations.

Do let us know what you think about Opera 52! Enjoy!

Here’s the full changelog for the development of Opera 52