In a first for South Africa, the Opera Desktop web browser has country specific settings and local Speed Dial. Most South Africans are already used to local Speed Dials within Opera Mini and now they can enjoy the same on Opera 12.10.
Opera 12.10’s powerful extensions combined with Speed Dial’s easy overview of the user’s favourite sites and shortcuts means favourite content is available faster and easier. Facebook pictures can appear in the Speed Dial entry for Facebook, the latest shared fashion trends on Pinterest appear automatically and the weather forecast is always present without having to visit the weather website.
The Readability extension focuses on text only, so saving the user a lot of time. The text can be sent to your Kindle or be put it in the to-read.
By introducing the Context Menu API, web developers can let the context menu (what most people call the right-click menu) get extended usability — for example, start a Tweet by right-clicking a link. The Resource Loader API lets web developers have their extensions interact with advanced CSS and JavaScript on webpages.
Opera 12.10 now supports features such as Notification Center in the newest version of Mac OS X and support for the Retina Screen in newer Macs. With the new version of Mac OS X, called Mountain Lion, Opera 12.10 uses the built-in sharing functionality to share, for example, a cool site on Twitter or via email.
Local content partners in South Africa are Kalahari.com and BidorBuy.
The final version of Opera 12.10 can be downloaded from www.opera.com.
