Recientemente the release of a new update was announced for the base of the stable branch of Opera 66, this being the update version "Opera 66.0.3515.103" in which handful of bug fixes added, but of them the most important and the reason for the release of this update is the solution to the errors that were presented with Widevine.
Widevine is a proprietary provider of DRM technology used in Google Chrome, Android MediaDRM, Android TV, and other devices consumer electronics. Widevine supports various hardware security and encryption schemes to securely distribute video content to consumer devices according to rules defined by content owners.
Widevine mainly provides a content decryption module(CDM) as a client of Google Chrome and other browsers and devices. Companies such as Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, and Disney + They use Widevine DRM to manage the distribution of premium content.
The problem with Widevine, it was presented only in Linux, so that the module just doesn't work due to the modified path from libwidevinecdm.so. Due to this small error in the path that pointed to Widevine (which was not valid), Opera had problems with the reproduction of content.
Many users on the Opera forums commented on it and the only solution in this regard was to manually install libwidevinecdm.so in the full path.
The solution is the following and you can apply it if you do not want to update to the new version:
The first thing you should do is download libwidevinecdm.so. and then you must edit:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json
And provide the address of libwidevinecdm.so Done that, you just have to restart your browser and that's it.
On the other hand another of the novelties of this Opera update, it has both a positive and a negative point, since From this version on, update requests for Opera extensions are sent to Chrome instead of Opera's servers.
With this basically, Opera stops checking the extensions and leave all this work directly to the Google Chrome extension store.
Esto It can be taken as a good thing since the extensions that are installed will no longer have that update difference as the variants that were available for Google Chrome (since many extensions were only available in previous versions in Opera, while a more updated version was already available in Chrome).
Finally, this version of Opera 66.0.3515.103 is built on the basis of Chromium 79.0.3945.130 and with this all the improvements and corrections corresponding to this version are included.
How to install Opera 66.0.3515.103 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For existing Opera users, can update automatically making use of the built-in function in the browser, we do this from the address bar by typing "Opera: //".
If you still do not have the browser installed on your system and you want to have it, we must first open a terminal and execute the following commands:
sudo sh -c echo "deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add –
We update the repositories:
sudo apt-get update
And we finish with the installation:
sudo apt-get install opera-stable
For those who do not want to add repositories, they can choose to install by deb package method. To have the new Opera is by downloading directly from the website and obtaining the .deb package for installation.
Done the download of the package .deb you can perform the installation of this with the help of the package manager preferably or they can also do it from the terminal (they must be positioned in the directory where the downloaded deb package is).
Y in the terminal they just have to type:
sudo dpkg -i opera-stable*.deb
Finally, in case of having problems with the dependencies, they are solved with:
sudo apt -f install
And that's it, they'll have this new version of Opera installed.
Or finally they can also install Opera 66.0.3515.103 with the help of Snap packages, For this, they only have to have the support to be able to install this type of package on their system.
To install, they just have to open a terminal and type the following command in it:
sudo snap install opera
grateful to the one above