Category: Opera

Earn More Than $100 / Hour With Opera

By | May 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

Earn More Than $100 / Hour With Opera

Writers required.

In case hunting security flaws in Google Chrome is not exactly your cup of tea, then here is another way to earn some cash: articles.
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Opera Software Q1 2012 Financial Results

By | May 4, 2012 | 14 Comments

Opera Software Q1 2012 Financial Results

Just today, Opera Software has released its first quarter results for this year and as seen in the slides below, the following year was quite good for the Norwegian browser maker.

Financial Highlights

– Total revenue (MUSD): 46.9 (1Q12) vs. 36.7 (1Q11)
– Opera Mini users: 31.1 million in March 2012, vs. 13.6m in March 2011, up 129%
– 168.8m users of Opera Mini in March
– 270 million+ people using Opera browsers every month
– Mobile Consumer revenue up 253%+ in 1Q12 vs. 1Q11
– Mobile Publishers & Advertisers revenue up 303% in 1Q12 vs. 1Q11
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Internet Explorer Crosses The 50% Market Share Mark, Again

By | May 1, 2012 | 25 Comments


Back in November, 2011, we have reported that the Internet Explorer web browser has fallen below the 50% market share mark.

Now, it looks like the software giant has something to celebrate as according to the latest numbers, it’s back at 50%, up from 49.82% (0.18 point increase).
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Full Hardware Acceleration Coming To Opera 13?

By | April 27, 2012 | 66 Comments

Full Hardware Acceleration Coming To Opera 13?

As you might know, the Beta version of Opera 12 has hardware acceleration (tagged as “experimental”) and WebGL disabled by default.

Although some of you might have expected to see the HWA in action in the Final version of Opera 12, it looks like this isn’t exactly the case. According to Opera’s Community Manager, Aleksander Aas, Opera 12 Final will not have hardware acceleration enabled by default.
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Benchmarks: Opera 12 – 32 Bit (x86) Vs. Opera 12 64 Bit (x86-64)

By | April 27, 2012 | 13 Comments

Benchmarks: Opera 12 - 32 Bit (x86) Vs. Opera 12 64 Bit (x86-64With the recent release of Opera 12 Beta, we were eager to compare the performance differences between the 32 and 64 bit builds. As our previous test has shown, the 64 bit version of Opera 12 Alpha was actually worse than its 32 bit build, which really surprised us, considering that the Internet Explorer and Firefox results told the different story.

To make things even more interesting, we have enabled the experimental hardware acceleration.
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Download Opera 12 Beta (32, 64 Bit)

By | April 26, 2012 | 16 Comments

Download Opera 12 Beta (32, 64 Bit)

The wait is over, after a couple of quick releases, Norwegian browser maker has revealed the Beta version of Opera 12 for both x86 and x86-64 systems.

In addition to various improvements, Opera 12 brings some of the most requested features, including out of process plugins, hardware acceleration (disabled by default) and WebGL (also disabled by default).
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Opera, Firefox And Internet Explorer To Implement WebKit Prefixes

By | April 26, 2012 | 11 Comments

Developers to blame.

In an interesting turn of events, which we view as positive news for its users, Opera Software will soon be releasing an experimental build of Opera Mobile Emulator, which will use WebKit prefixes to combat ignorant web developers. In addition to that, since it will be integrated into Opera’s core, you can expect to see same prefixes across all Opera web browsers in the near future.
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Opera Kills Service That “Changed Everything”

By | April 24, 2012 | 32 Comments

Opera Kills Service That "Changed Everything"

Unhappy users all over the web, all 3 of them.

Good news, after a lackluster success with the overhyped Opera Unite service, it looks like Opera Software has finally come to fruition and will be discontinuing it along with the Widgets as well as Voice, saving both money and valuable resources.
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IE8 vs. Google Chrome 18 vs. Firefox 11 vs. Opera 11.6 vs. Safari 5.1

By | April 23, 2012 | 14 Comments

IE8 vs. Google Chrome 18 vs. Firefox 11 vs. Opera 11.6 vs. Safari 5.1

Windows XP edition.

Despite very positive Windows 7 reviews, it still remains the #2 operating system, right behind everyone’s beloved Windows XP. And although trend favors Windows 7, it does not mean that the XP users should be left behind. Since Internet Explorer 9 won’t run on this OS, guys at TomsHardware have decided to test IE8 against the top 4 web browsers.
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Opera 12 Beta Is Almost Here

By | April 20, 2012 | 62 Comments

Opera 12 Beta Is Almost Here

Since the very first alpha release of Opera 12, developers were busy fixing bugs and adding new features.

Recently, Norwegian browser maker has included a camera support in one of its pre-beta release, which, according to our readers, should boost Opera’s HTML5 score by 20 points. However, this is not yet enough to reclaim the number one spot from Maxthon.
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