Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream

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We’ve said many times that when a Linux version is ready, we’d let you know. Today, we’re delighted to announce our first Chromium-based Linux version is ready for download on our Developer stream. Go ahead and download Opera Developer 24 for Linux.

Opera 24 Linux

Many of us at Opera use Linux as our primary platform. It’s great to be able to try out the newest developments of Opera on Linux once again.

Adding Linux to our browser line fulfills an important part of Opera’s vision to shape an open, connected world. We want everyone to have fast and safe access to the web. Adding Linux opens up that possibility to more machines running the open-source operating system.

Linux is highly secure and performs well, even on machines with limited memory or suboptimal hardware. Not all of us can afford the latest Mac or Windows machines, not all of us want proprietary operating systems, and some of us simply love using Linux. But, everyone agrees that they should have access to a beautiful browser.

Now, Linux users around the globe can get the newest Opera features, including:

- Discover
- Stash
- A wide selection of extensions and themes

… not to mention the vastly improved Speed Dial and Opera Turbo.

To provide the highest quality, we’ve been testing on one particular platform right now – Ubuntu Linux 64-bit with Unity or Gnome Shell. It may work on other platforms, but that’s not guaranteed. As our development progresses, we’ll look into other potential platforms to support.

Releasing to the Developer stream means that all the usual considerations regarding Developer builds also apply to this one. With all that said, many of us have been using Opera for Linux as our default browser, and find it to be pretty robust.

Take it for a spin and tell us if anything breaks. We hope you enjoy using it.

Cheers!

- All of us on the Desktop team

P.S.: You may notice changes to how tabs behave on Windows and Linux. We’ll post more details about this tab improvement soon, along with Mac support information. For now, let’s keep the discussion about Linux.

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  • L33t4opera

    Hi Arjan, this is very nice and happy day for majorit Linux’s users, many thanks to all Opera’s Developers!

    • Arjan van Leeuwen

      Thanks, enjoy it :)

  • Irvandoval

    Al fin!!!!!!

  • http://ruario.ghost.io/ Ruarí Ødegaard

    What the ….!? I never expected this!!!

    • ahoj1234

      I love when dev guys are trolling on their own blog :D

    • Licaon_Kter

      Betrayal!!!!

      • Mallory

        Funny, I keep 12.0 on an Ubuntu machine because higher wouldn’t read the search.ini on startup, making google always the default search (I assume this is your bug?).
        But on two other Ubuntu machines I have 12.16 running and my default search engine is remembered and works fine.
        I haven’t figured out what the difference is regarding search.ini.

    • Helge Andre Gjølme

      How did you manage to get this out the door?!

    • Marcin Mitek

      It’s obviously a fake.

      • Jonathan Aanesen

        Agreed, no way this can be real.

  • http://www.operaturkiye.net/ Mağruf Çolakoğlu

    Thanks :)

  • jmc777

    Good work guys/gals!

  • http://eser.ozvataf.com/ Eser Ozvataf

    Finally.

  • http://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/ Corey Mwamba

    Any tar packages for non-{Debian,Ubuntu} people?

    • https://www.aeyoun.com/ Daniel Aleksandersen

      “We’ve been testing on one particular platform right now – Ubuntu [… ] As our development progresses, we’ll look into other potential platforms to support.”

      • http://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/ Corey Mwamba

        Sorry – far too excited to read properly! I’ll hold fire, although maybe the deb2targz utility would work.

      • Anton Chelnokov

        please, make gentoo and fedora are the next platform

  • Vux777

    tab peek is very cool

    • wolkenspalter

      I am not impressed. Its a feature nice to have, but where are the basics? (too bored to count them again…)

  • http://mustafahasturk.com Mustafa Hastürk

    I almost start to use Mac :) Thank you all.

  • kabforks

    Does anyone have screenshots of “tab peek” ?

    • https://www.aeyoun.com/ Daniel Aleksandersen

      We’ll be wiring more about this next week.

      • Vux777

        they are real time updated’?
        meaning, when I hover the tab, preview image is made in that particular moment
        is that right?
        I see peek img is updated with active content

        • ABDX

          yes it is.

    • Vux777
  • _artem_

    Merry Christmas folks :-D

  • kabforks

    I’m very impressed by the “Peek” feature. It’s useful to see if you have got mail or other notifications without clicking on a tab. And it looks well implemented. Far more useful than the old “thumbnail on hover”.

    • https://www.aeyoun.com/ Daniel Aleksandersen

      It will be more impressive next week.

      • ABDX

        please fix this before next week, because its really annoying : DNA-22093
        in short: you cant show the windows task bar when its set to auto-hide if u hover the mouse over it when the opera window is maximised

  • http://adonisk.com Adonis K.

    Awesome!

    • Licaon_Kter

      Read again, it means Ubuntu 64-bit.

      • http://adonisk.com Adonis K.

        Well, they could at least provide a zipball for the other distros instead of providing only a deb file (even if they are not tested yet, after all this is the dev stream). Now we have to do a deb2targz ourselves…

        • Arjan van Leeuwen
          • Exalm

            What about 32 bit?

          • http://ruario.ghost.io/ Ruarí Ødegaard

            We’ll start with this. People had been waiting long enough. Now at least some people can begin to test.

            Anyway, why are you still on 32-Bit. Just (genuinely) curious.

          • Exalm

            I have 4GB of RAM, why would I want 64-bit system? Just to have to install 32-bit libs for Skype and other programs that are 32-bit only? :)

          • http://ruario.ghost.io/ Ruarí Ødegaard

            Why not a Multiarch install?

          • Exalm

            Once again additional libs. Anyway, that’s not an excuse not to provide 32-bit versions, there are plenty of people using 32-bit OS. :)

            Additionally, I have a netbook (ASUS EeePC 900) that can’t run 64-bit OS at all.

          • kaktak

            To be able to address that 4 GB of RAM. Remember that 32-bit apps can only address up to 3 GB, since the last GB of address space is reserved for kernel. So in 32-bit system every app is limited to 3 GB.

          • Exalm

            PAE kernel allows 2 or more apps to allocate all of the memory. That’s perfectly enough.

          • http://ruario.ghost.io/ Ruarí Ødegaard

            I’m hoping and half expecting that some users will step up and repackage for their distros and/or put together a quick install/uninstall script. Those notes should be enough to get things going.

  • Anton Chelnokov

    Yo

    • Jonathan Aanesen

      Yo, what’s up?

    • http://coxy.co coxy

      Yo

  • MozPri

    Windows!!!111 :P

  • Onaj Tamo

    Yaay,finally.

  • http://people.opera.com/danield Daniel Davis

    Great news! Thanks for not forgetting about us :-)

  • cgebhard

    Very nice, congratulations!

    But: The installation via the ubuntu software-center got stuck just before the end. Had to force stopping the process. (screenshot)
    Retried it via terminal and it worked without any problem.
    (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit)

    • Arjan van Leeuwen

      This seems to happen because we ask confirmation for updating, and that confirmation shows up as a debconf dialog behind the main window in Ubuntu Software Center.

      • cgebhard

        So that means by killing the process I also killed the debconf dialog and thus gave no update permission?

  • Antoniojr Avellanosa

    The fb from googleplay puts so many strings to it that you wont be able to see the apps anymore,so i deleted it and plan to open a new fb account from opera.hard to live,hard to getby in an indifferent,insensitive world.

  • https://plus.google.com/+ErikvanLuxzenburg/about Erik van Luxzenburg

    Great news, when I’m back at my home pc, I’ll install it right away :-)

  • Darklink88

    html notifications are coming too! :)

  • Janghou

    Hail.

    BTW you don’t have to download it manually :
    It’s in the normal opera repository (final releases) for Debian/Ubuntu.

    Just use synaptic or type in a terminal:
    `sudo apt-get install opera-developer`