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Release of Opera 11 was announced a few days back, and this latest release of Opera comes bundled up with a lot of changes. Some of the most significant changes in Opera 11 are related to it's interface.

Opera, which is written in Qt toolkit and takes advantage of its own Presto engine, has been around for quite a long time now. Opera holds a respectable position in Linux community's selection of web browsers, holding third position just behind Chrome and Firefox.

Some new features in Opera 11 are listed below:

• Improved Address Field

  The address field is now able to hide lengthy links focusing instead of the main domain name. All web pages got a badge to the left to replace protocols like HTTP or HTTPS, also, there is a badge that indicated if Opera Turbo in on or off.


• Improved Opera auto-update System

  Auto-Update System checks updates for extensions and Opera Unite applications.

• Bookmarks Bar

  Bookmarks Bar is placed below the address bar but that can be changed using Appearance dialog.


• Improved Extensions System

  Extensions can be created using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Mail Panel

  Mail Panel has been turned around big time and has received several very notable improvements.

• Plug-ins

  Plug-ins can be loaded on demand.

• Presto Rendering Engine

  Presto Rendering Engine has been tweaked too with changes to the ways on handling HTML5 and CSS3.

• Google Search Predictions

  Google search predictions can now be integrated into Opera’s search field

• Tab Improvements

  Tabs can now be grouped separately locked tab feature is improved and renamed to 'pin tab'(wonder why is that).


• User JavaScript

  Improvements made to user JavaScript

• Visual Mouse Gestures

  Visual mouse gestures can be activated by holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse cursor; Opera will show what gestures are available

Being able to capture what is on your screen can be useful at time (one example can be this tutorial in which I had to use pictures of my screen). Taking a screenshot is fairly simple and straight-forward in GIMP. All you have to do is goto File > Create > Screenshot....

Following the menu as shown in the above picture will open the following window that will help you take the screenshot. From here on all you have to do is choose the right option.

The window shown in the above figure provide three options (all of them doing exactly what they say):

• Take a screenshot of a single window
• Take a screenshot of the entire screen
• Select a region to grab

Take a screenshot of a single window

If you want to capture only a single window just select this option and click snap. Doing so will allow you to capture any single window that in visible on the screen just by clicking on it.

This option provides a sub-option as well: Include window decoration. You may or may not check it depending on what you want to do. The name is very self explanatory, if you want to include window borders while taking the screenshot select this option and vice versa.

Take a screenshot of the entire screen

Choosing this option will allow you to take the screenshot of the entire desktop. Using the sub-option: Include mouse pointer, you may or may not capture mouse arrow (if normally opt not to capture mouse arrow).

Select a region to grab

If you have to take screenshot of multiple windows or prefer not to capture the entire screen, you can can select this option. It allows the user to capture any portion of the screen. Simple click and drag across the screen and select an area to capture.

What is delay?

There is a sweet little option at the end of the window labeled as delay. Delay can be used to set the time between the moment you press the Snap button and the moment at which the screenshot is taken. Delay option is available while using the options: Take a screenshot of a single window, Take a screenshot of the entire screen