Tag archive: Opera

Released by Opera Software earlier today, version 11.60 of the Opera browser brings changes to the HTML5 rendering engine as well as speed improvements and a revision of the built-in email client. The last major release, version 11, was released during December 2010 and included new features such as visual mouse gestures, tab stacking and extension management. While this update doesn't bring as many new features, increased performance… Read More

Based off a report from Ireland-based research firm StatCounter, the Google Chrome browser has moved into second place globally for the first time. While Microsoft's Internet Explorer still remains at the top, Mozilla's Firefox browser continued on a downward trend that started at the end of 2010. The research firm reported that Chrome took a 25.7 percent market share in November 2011 while Firefox fell to 25.23 percent. Just two… Read More

According to new data posted this week from a company called Net Applications, Microsoft's Internet Explorer appears to be continuing a downward spiral. Over the last ten months, Microsoft has lost five percent of the web browser market while Google's Chrome has gained about six percent. The amount of people using Internet Explorer is expected to fall below the 50 percent mark around late May of 2012. One bright point for Microsoft… Read More

New figures from Net Applications show that July was a strong month for Apple's Safari: the browser jumps from a 7.48 percent share of the worldwide browser market in June to 8.05 percent in July. Safari was one of only two browsers to gain ground during the month: the other was the traditionally fast-expanding Google Chrome, which went from a 13.11 percent share in June to 13.45 percent in July. Net Applications' figures also… Read More

Update: This so-called study was found to be a hoax by the BBC. Please, disregard. Original text: A newly released study has found that users of Microsoft's line of Internet Explorer browsers have the lowest IQs, on average, than people who regularly use other web browsers. Conversely, Opera users have the highest average IQ. The study (PDF) comes via Vancouver-based “psychometric consulting company” AptiQuant, who tested… Read More

Opera Software has launched version 11.5 of its desktop Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X (10.6 or newer), and Linux, featuring a streamlined interface and new Speed Dial extensions that pull in key information from users' favorite sites and services without requiring users to navigate separately to the sites: just load Opera, and Speed Dial extensions put the information you want up front, automatically. The new version also features an… Read More

Opera Software has announced that its founder Jon S. von Tetzchner will be leaving the company at the end of the month. No reason was given for von Tetzchner's departure, with the company saying only that he is leaving to work on other unspecified projects. Von Tetzchner co-founded Opera Software back in 1995, and served as the company's chief executive until 2010. “When we first started out, we were a few guys in a really… Read More

Following its release on Android and Blackberry platforms a couple of months back, the latest version of the Opera mobile browser has come to Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Opera Mini 6 was released on Tuesday by the Norwegian company, offering what it describes on its website as “a different kind of browsing experience to complement the default iPad and iPhone browser.” Speaking to the LA Times, Phillip Gronvold, a product manager… Read More

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple will include a do-not-track tool in its next version of Safari. The tool will serve to enhance privacy when browsing the web, preventing marketers from following users' online activities. The tool will likely be available as part of the next Mac operating system, Lion, currently on schedule for a summer release. Such tools send a message to marketers asking that users' online… Read More

Opera commands about 2 percent of the Internet browser market, but it continually debuts new, innovative features at a pace that outmatches many of the world's most popular browsers. Today, the Norwegian software company had a little fun as it debuted the newest version of its PC browser: Opera 11.10, which comes loaded with a feature called Turbo, which speeds up the Web for those with slow Internet connections. Poking fun at Google,… Read More

For Web addicts, the last few years have been great. While Microsoft was once content to sit on its browser throne, intense competition from Google and Mozilla has brought a plethora of innovative new features to the market. Whenever one browser implements a popular new feature, the others seem sure to follow. Never has this been more clear than with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, the newest version of its exceedingly popular browser.… Read More

Opera announced today the launch of its new mobile app store, reports CNet. The store is usable by anyone running Java, Symbian, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile operating systems. Apple's iOS is currently not supported. The online marketplace now offers over 140,000 mobile applications, including both the free and paid varieties. The apps are organized into a number of categories, including Featured, Free, Top 50, Top Picks, New and… Read More

Gearing up for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, Norway's Opera Software has revealed it plans to launch a version of its Opera Mini Web browser for the Apple iPad, marking the browser maker's first explicit foray into the tablet computer market. Opera also announced that some 105 million people use an Opera-based browser every month, with about 90 million on Opera Mini and about 15 million on Opera Mobile.… Read More

The year 2010 is ready to be put into the Web browser wars history books. According to Net Applications, while Internet Explorer is still the most widely-used Web browser on the planet—ending the year with a 57.08 percent share—competitors managed to gain ground on IE during the year. And the biggest gains were seen by Google's Chrome Web browser, which came close to doubling its share of the browser market during 2010.… Read More

Released as a beta just last month, Norway's Opera Software has released Opera 11 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The new browser features stackable browser tabs—enabling users to organize tabs into logical groups rather than a splatter of items across the top of a window. Opera 11 also brings support for browser extensions—things like ad blockers, password managers, and translators—along with easier-to-understand… Read More