How to install Opera 49 Released with Built-in VR Player, adds snapshot tool on Ubuntu 17.10

    Opera 49 was released earlier today. The new release features included VR playback system that supports 360-degree vedios, 2D movies or standard 180-degree videos, editing tools and selfie mode in Snapshot tool, emoji for snap , accessibility to line drawing tool popover buttons, Bookmarks bar folder icon color improvements, Popup windows are too wide when full URL is displayed.

Opera 49 release highlights:

• [Mac] Buildsign script not working
• Create API for activating Snap from the welcome page
• Promote O49 to Stable channel
• Remove ‘Dont need sidebar(…)’ hint
• Enable VR on beta and stable channels
• [Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome] Unable to make window small when fully maximised
• Speed dial item edit popup appears under folder preview
• VR button shown on video when VR disabled in settings
• Translations for O49
• Themes Light mode wrong translation (to some languages)
• Take snapshot from surface for PDF viewer snaps
• Translations for O49
• For more, see the announcement.

How to install Opera 49 on Ubuntu 

      Open terminal and insert command line...

$ 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-get install opera-stable