Here is how to install Opera Web Browser for Linux Ubuntu. Opera 67 has been released and it brings many improvements and fixes. Opera Web Browser come with built-in ad blocker to help you browse faster, built-in VPN to help you browse safely and built-in messengers to help you stay in touch.
Opera 67 Features
Workspaces lets you organize tabs according to the different contexts you use them in.
Workspaces is a new tool which lets you organize your tabs according to the different life contexts you use them for. Right now, you can add up to 5 workspaces, name them, and designate their icons. This allows you to keep tabs for work, free-time activity or any other projects in separate tab groups, called workspaces.
Workspace icons are quickly accessible at the top of the sidebar, with your active workspace icon highlighted in blue, allowing you to easily spot it. And if you’d like to open a link in a different workspace, simply right-click it and send it to the workspace of your choice. You can also move tabs between workspaces using the tab context menu.
And how do you find a website you opened once and which has gone missing in a sea of tabs? Simply use the Ctrl+space shortcut and type in a keyword. You will find it in no time!
The new visual tab-cycler . With Opera, this has just become significantly easier as they’ve updated the Tab-cycler to be horizontal and more visually accessible. You can bring up the Tab-cycler with the Ctrl+Tab shortcut (on Windows, MacOS and Linux) and use it to switch between tab thumbnails without lifting your hands from your keyboard.
Improved security with DNS over HTTPS. When someone types a website address, like www.opera.com, the browser has to translate (resolve) it to an IP address, such as 35.158.61.69. This is done through a Domain Name System (DNS) resolver service, one of the oldest surviving parts of the Internet. By today’s standards, DNS is too trusting as the data exchanged between the browser and the DNS is not encrypted. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a way to make it more robust by increasing user privacy and security.
In simpler terms: it prevents eavesdropping and the manipulation of DNS data from man-in-the-middle attacks by using the HTTPS protocol to encrypt the data between the DoH client (Opera browser) and the DoH-based DNS resolver.
Opera now allows you to enable the DoH feature and to choose your DoH server of choice from a preselected list, or to customize it to any DoH server by using the browser’s settings.
Install Opera
Run the following commands in terminal to install Opera Browser on Linux Ubuntu Systems:
sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get update sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list' wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt install opera-stable
Download links:
- Opera Stable for Linux – deb packages
- Opera Stable for Linux – RPM packages
- Opera Stable for Linux – snap package