Tag: Opera Software
Weekly Browsers Recap, September 20th
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• Internet Explorer 9, What’s New?
If you have not yet downloaded Internet Explorer 9 Beta, here is a…
• Download Internet Explorer 9 Beta
And here you have it, a download link for Internet Explorer 9 Beta.
• Exclusive: Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots
A couple of IE9 screenshots for you to check,
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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 13th
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• Microsoft Starts Advertising IE9
Although IE9 is yet to be released, it looks like software giant Microsoft has already began rolling…
• Fake IE9 Video Leaks, Press Freaks Out
There seem to be a lot of buzz about the recently “leaked” IE9 video. If you have yet to see it, check…
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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 6th
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• Internet Explorer 9 vs. Google Chrome 7 vs. Firefox 4 (Hardware Acceleration)
As Google Chrome 7 (dev) now includes hardware acceleration, guys from DownloadSquad decided to…
• August, 2010 – Firefox, Chrome, Safari Share Up; Opera, Internet Explorer – Down
With few major browser releases just around the corner, let’s find out how market share has changed…
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Opera Software 15th Anniversary
Started in the year 1994 and founded in 1995, by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy, today Opera Software is celebrating its 15th year anniversary.
Happy anniversary!
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Opera Pokes at Google Chrome Speed Test
Couple weeks ago, Google came up with Chrome speed test video. Well, today Opera Software has released their own version of it, featuring Norwegian potatoes and Opera web browser itself.
Thanks to Garen, RamaSubbu SK and zoori for the news tip.
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Opera Mobile 10 Comes to Maemo
Today Opera Software has released a preview build of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia N900 and N800/N810 devices.
Just like Opera Mini or Opera Mobile for Windows/Symbian platforms, it supports Opera Turbo, bookmarks synch, tabbed browsing, speed dial and many more.
Furthermore, Nokia users received a unique opportunity to play with the new JavaScript engine called Carakan and Vega rendering library, as they are now a part of Opera Mobile 10 web browser for Maemo.
There are also some known issues, be sure to check them before downloading.
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Opera Buys FastMail
Today, Opera Software has announced the acquisition of Aussie email provider FastMail.FM for an undisclosed amount of money.
According to company press release statement, this move will help Opera to expand its current messaging product portfolio and deliver cross-platform messaging to a wide range of devices, including computers, mobile phones, TVs and gaming consoles.
“The newest generation of Web users will discover the Web through a mobile device. Having world-class messaging capability alongside a rich and compelling Web experience is essential. By combining forces, Opera and FastMail.fm can offer messaging on any device. This will enhance the value Opera provides to consumers, while assisting our operator partners in reducing customer churn,” said Rolf Assev, Chief Strategy Officer at Opera Software.
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100 Million Opera Users
After tripling it’s downloads more than a month ago, Opera Software has announced, that company has now more than 100 million active users worldwide, using Opera Mini and Opera Desktop web browsers.
“Opera’s record growth shows that we are on the right track, and that as user needs grow, we are growing right along with them,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, April 12th
- A Closer Look at Internet Explorer 9 Hardware Acceleration Through Flying Images
- Microsoft: IE9 Preview Downloads Taking Off
- Microsoft finally to close the VBScript hole in Internet Explorer
- Mozilla’s Q1 2010 Analyst Report – State of the Internet
- Aza Raskin Joining Firefox
- Firefox with Direct2D: Speed you can feel
- Firefox 3.6.3 security update now available
- Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 security updates now available
- Improved Flash Player Support in Chrome
- Dev update: Integrated Adobe Flash Player Plug-in
- We will launch 3D apps via Chrome soon
- Google Chrome Developer Update – Geolocation and Incognito Extensions
- Is Apple giving Opera for iPhone the Google Voice treatment?
- Opera Mini Sees 50.5 Million Mobile Users In February, Up 145 Percent
- Opera to showcase revenue-generating Web solutions at NAB 2010
- The big change coming to Safari 5: Kernel-level multi-processing
- Plugging the CSS History Leak
- Privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
- Javascript in the commandline
- Interesting times for Video on the Web
- Quake 2 running in HTML5 browsers
- First look: Skyfire for Android
- LG ships first phone with HTML5 browser
- Thanks to Andrew, Daniel Hendrycks, Demir Lugonic, mabdul, Nab and Nox for links.
P.S. Sorry for missing last week’s recap and some news (was traveling + missed flight back), still catching up :-)
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Opera Not Happy with Ballot Screen
Opera Software has reported a possible problem to European Union and Microsoft, where in rare cases; ballot screen would be hidden by Internet Explorer configuration windows.
