Opera has unveiled its new (and long-awaited) browser for Linux, according to a company press release on Monday. The new developer version of Opera 24 uses Google’s open source project Chromium as its base.
Opera hasn’t been updated for Linux since version 12.16, which debuted in December according to The Next Web. Users had complained that it didn’t have the same features and functionality as Opera for Windows and Mac computers.
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