Software update: Opera 18.0.1284.49

Opera has released version 18 of its web browser of the same name. Earlier this year, Opera switched from its in-house render engine Presto to Chromium, which is also used by Google Chrome, among others. Opera is available for Windows and OS X, but not yet for Linux. Version 18 includes a newer release of Chromium, the browser can now address the camera and microphone and the appearance can be customized with themes.

Opera 18 Release Notes

• Opera 18 includes updates to the latest Chromium release, version 31.
• Allow websites to access your camera and/or microphone, including support for HTML5 media access.
• Themes from addons.opera.com can be installed through the theme manager.
• Navigate back and forward between pages in a tab’s history by rocking your fingers across your mouse buttons.
• You can now drag tabs between open windows.
• stability enhancement.
• Enhanced support for Chromium extensions.
• Custom search engines can be created from form context menu (right-click, or Ctrl-click on Mac, in any webpage’s search form to try).
• In Windows, set the browser language from the Settings page.