Category: Opera

Out of Office Auto Reply: 150 Million Opera Users Worldwide

By | December 1, 2010 | 11 Comments

Out of Office Auto Reply: 150 Million Opera Users Worldwide

The creative way.

It looks like Opera Software is having a party as company has announced the milestone of 150 million Opera users worldwide.

If you visit Opera.com, it will display an actual inbox of Jon S. von Tetzchner, the co-founder of Opera Software.

Furthermore, visitors can actually read all the messages, for example: an invoice for Mitsubishi Colt Owners Club membership OR “We were thinking of re-doing this stunt. What do you think? http://www.opera.com/press/swim/

Happy browsing and congratulations to Opera Software!

No Awesome Christmas Gifts for You

By | November 30, 2010 | 18 Comments

No Awesome Christmas Gifts for You, Sir

Now here is an interesting bug (Opera 11 Beta).

Type in the address bar:
awesome christmas gifts

Press Enter. Boom. Error.

Type:
christmas gifts

Works fine. Either it’s a bug or I was a bad boy this year and Santa actually exists.

Firefox 5 and Hardware Accelerated Canvas for Mac OS, Linux, XP

By | November 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

Firefox 5 and Hardware Accelerated Canvas for Mac OS, Linux, XPHardware acceleration is great if you are running Vista or Windows 7 machines. However, when it comes to XP or other operating systems, you won’t be able to experience the very best of it.

What’s the solution?

Joe Drew, the developer of Firefox web browser is considering writing a hardware accelerated backend to canvas, possibly in collaboration with other browser maker (you are welcome to join).

As he said:
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 29th

By | November 29, 2010 | 1 Comment

Weekly Browsers Recap, November 29th

FavBrowser.com

Internet Explorer on Mac
Oh no.

Control Your Web Browser with Kinect
Reveals endless possibilities.

Are You Serious?
A picture.
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Download Opera 11 Beta

By | November 23, 2010 | 23 Comments

Download Opera 11 Beta

As promised yesterday, Norwegian browser maker has announced a Beta version of Opera 11 web browser.

The following release includes a handful of new features, where the most notable are: tab stacking (see video below) and visual mouse gestures.

In addition, it also brings an improved address bar, updated email application, extensions auto update, bug fixes and much more.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 22nd

By | November 22, 2010 | 0 Comments

Weekly Browsers Recap, November 22nd

FavBrowser.com

Microsoft Caught Cheating in the Sunspider Benchmark
Oh boy, here we go again.

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 Released
Screams for more performance.
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Opera 11 Beta Tomorrow

By | November 22, 2010 | 23 Comments

Just a quick shout out from Opera Software as company plans to release the Beta version of Opera 11 web browser tomorrow.

Stay tuned.

Opera Blames Weather

By | November 18, 2010 | 63 Comments

Opera Software Q3 2010 Financial Results

Just when you think you’ve seen it all.

According to the latest Opera Software financial report, company saw a modest desktop users drop over the period of last two quarters.

What could be the reason for this?
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Opera Software Q3 2010 Financial Results

By | November 18, 2010 | 7 Comments

Opera Software Q3 2010 Financial Results

Recently, Opera Software has reported their Q3 2010 financial results.

Revenues continued to increase for the desktop browser, while Internet devices saw a 2% decrease (Q2 vs. Q3).

Opera Mini user base keeps growing while desktop browser lost more users.
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Microsoft Caught Cheating in the Sunspider Benchmark

By | November 18, 2010 | 21 Comments

Microsoft Caught Cheating in the Sunspider BenchmarkOh boy, here we go again.

If rumors are proved to be true, then Internet Explorer 9 has got some dirty tricks up its sleeve and they were just debunked.

To put it simply: Microsoft may be cheating in the Sunspider benchmark.

Mozilla’s engineer Rob Sayre was testing different web browsers until he noticed something odd.
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