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Less than a week after it arrived on devices in a stable version, the Opera 14 for Android mobile browser has received an update, with a nice range of bug fixes and other improvements packed inside.
According to the release notes attached to the app, users will enjoy improved battery life following the update, as w... |
24 May 2013
02:56 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Opera browser is now available for download for Android devices, with some more enhancements packed inside, namely version 14.0.1074.57453. The new flavor of the app was meant to make navigation easier and more intuitive than before, courtesy of options such as toggle navigation bar from top to ... |
21 May 2013
02:22 GMT |
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Opera has decided to drop the lawsuit against Trond Werner Hansen, its former employee and consultant.
Just a few weeks after word got out that Opera was filing a lawsuit against their former employee, accusing him of selling trade secrets to competitor Mozilla and claiming over $3 million in damages, the browser s... |
16 May 2013
09:20 GMT |
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Opera is trying to get ahead in the battle of the mobile web browsers and has announced a new partnership with seven smartphone and tablet manufacturers in India.
Opera Software wants to ensure that its Opera Mini browser comes pre-installed on a large number of devices running Android.
According to the deal, all... |
8 May 2013
10:19 GMT |
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Opera isn't winning many friends these days. After deciding to gut the desktop browser along with its own HTML engine, it's now suing a former employee and consultant, Trond Werner Hansen, over allegedly "stealing" trade secrets and sharing them with Mozilla, where he now works. Opera believes the damage ... |
30 April 2013
04:20 GMT |
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Opera has filed a suit against a former employee, accusing him of giving away trade secrets to rival Mozilla.
Opera Software is claiming damages of 20 million Norwegian Krone, which is an estimated $3.4 million (€2.6 million), The Next Web reports.
The name of the accused is Trond Werner Hansen. He worked for... |
29 April 2013
07:32 GMT |
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While the wait for a Presto-less Opera is still on, the Norwegian developer launched today the stable build for Opera 12.15. The fresh revision, which was preceded by two release candidates, integrates stability improvements and security fixes.
Significant in this build is the fix for a bug that allowed third-party ... |
4 April 2013
07:31 GMT |
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With Google announcing that it is now building its own rendering engine Blink and moving away from WebKit, many were wondering where this leaves Opera, which announced just a few weeks ago that it was abandoning its own rendering engine Presto and will start relying on WebKit. Well, it turns out that all the while, ... |
4 April 2013
03:49 GMT |
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The second release candidate for Opera 12.15 has been released recently and there’s a good chance for a stable build to be launched this week.
The developer did not make too many modifications, but it addressed an issue plenty of users had been reporting; the bug caused the list of search engines to be empty a... |
25 March 2013
10:29 GMT |
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Last month, Opera officially demoed and launched its new WebKit-based mobile browser for devices powered by Google’s Android operating system, currently available for download in a beta flavor.
Today, the Norwegian company provided some info on the adoption of the new mobile application, and unveiled that the... |
25 March 2013
08:27 GMT |
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Opera has made available for download a new flavor of its Opera browser beta for Android devices, the new application that was built based on the WebKit standard, namely version 14.0.1025.53463.
The new application release arrives on devices with a series of fixes for the history issues that the application has had... |
22 March 2013
04:21 GMT |
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Opera may have announced the replacement of Presto engine with WebKit, but this does not mean that they’re not still working on the old browser. After a lengthy pause the developer released a new update, to Opera 12.15 Release Candidate. It does not include too many modifications and there is definitely no ne... |
20 March 2013
08:15 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Opera made available for download a new browser for devices running under Google’s Android operating system, based on WebKit, and the company has released an update for the application on Thursday. Available for download in a beta flavor for the time being, the new browser arrives on devices ... |
15 March 2013
08:21 GMT |
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Microsoft yesterday received a new multi-million dollar penalty in Europe, and the Redmond-based technology giant was quick to confirm that it has no intention to appeal the decision. A report published by the Financial Times (registration required) and citing people familiar with the case indicates that Google and ... |
7 March 2013
08:15 GMT |
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Opera has made available for download a new flavor of its Android browser, one built using the WebKit engine and destined to provide users with a much faster performance than before. The browser was announced several weeks ago and has been showcased at the Mobile World Congress, where we have had the chance to have... |
5 March 2013
02:01 GMT |
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Google is working on a new way of speeding up the web on its mobile Chrome browser, the Android flavor, by using an "SPDY proxy," something similar to Opera Mini/Turbo or Amazon's Silk Browser. With the proxy enabled, all traffic is routed via Google's servers and all pages are optimized before they'r... |
4 March 2013
05:28 GMT |
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According to StatCounter numbers, Google Chrome is increasing its lead over its competitors in the browser market, with IE in particular taking a big hit in February.
Firefox managed to stay flat, after several months of slow decline, while Safari made another significant leap.
Chrome ended February with 37.09 perc... |
1 March 2013
04:37 GMT |
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As promised, Opera is now showing off its first WebKit-based browser, the new mobile Opera for Android. The app is not available just yet, it should be coming in the next few months, but the company is highlighting some of the features that it hopes will make its browser stand out in the sea of WebKit browsers alre... |
26 February 2013
13:21 GMT |
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While on the floor at the Mobile World Congress trade show, Softpedia’s editors have had the chance to learn some more info on the new WebKit-based Opera browser for Android, which can be seen detailed in the video embedded above.
The browser comes with a speed-dial page, the same as Opera Mobile and Opera Mi... |
25 February 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Opera may have given up on Presto, but there are people who haven't. In fact, there are some who would like to see the layout engine released as open source.
There's a petition going, it's got less than a couple of thousands of supporters for now, but there are talks of an open source Presto in vario... |
19 February 2013
07:33 GMT |
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Hardly surprising, but Opera's move to WebKit and Chromium didn't come without casualties, outside of the browsers. Opera lost some 90 people, half of which were developers, over the past few months many of them in January.
Opera didn't fire most of them, but instead offered hefty severance packages f... |
19 February 2013
04:57 GMT |
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With Opera abandoning the fight, Mozilla is pretty much left all alone against the WebKit onslaught. Sure, there's also Internet Explorer but Microsoft isn't exactly the first name that comes to mind when thinking about the health of the Internet.
And, even as WebKit dominates, Mozilla isn't giving u... |
16 February 2013
09:51 GMT |
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Opera is revealing some more of its plans, it has bought Skyfire, the maker of the mobile browser with the same name, a company that also offers video optimization services.
These should fit right in with Opera Mini and Opera Turbo, both of which optimize web usage to drive down data transfers.
The deal could be w... |
15 February 2013
02:50 GMT |
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Opera's decision to stop developing its own HTML layout engine and use Google and Apple's WebKit may end up being a good one for the company, it's too early to tell, but it could happen. But it's very unlikely that it is going to be good for the web at large.
Reactions on the web range from... |
13 February 2013
13:21 GMT |
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The decision to kill the current desktop browser and to switch to WebKit in the mobile space came as a shock to many Opera fans, but it was perhaps inevitable.
The fact is, the battle is in the mobile arena now; the desktop market is still bigger and it still generates the most money, but it's also stagnant.
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13 February 2013
08:21 GMT |
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Opera made quite the announcement a few moments ago – in a press release that doesn't betray the gravity of the situation, it revealed that the Opera desktop browser, not the most popular but loved by many, will cease to exist. Opera will make a gradual transition this year towards a desktop browser based ... |
13 February 2013
05:31 GMT |
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Opera has called it a day. After almost two decades in the browser business, Opera has officially quit. The company announced that it is going to adopt the WebKit engine for all of its browsers on mobile platforms, something not particularly surprising, but also that it is stopping development of its desktop bro... |
13 February 2013
04:13 GMT |
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Today, Opera officially announced plans to showcase a new flavor of its mobile browser for Android devices at the upcoming 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The new mobile application will be based on the WebKit standard, which will be widely adopted across the company’s browsers for phones and ... |
13 February 2013
03:51 GMT |
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Opera is quite a quirky company, much like the browser it makes. Despite never becoming very popular on the desktop, Opera is making money from its mobile and embedded browsers.
Still, while Opera Mini is going strong, Opera isn't making much progress in the smartphone market as well.
Its future doesn't ... |
12 February 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Following the problems with version 12.13 of their browser Opera hurried the release of another minor build, incrementing the revision number to 12.14.
There aren’t too many modifications available for this release since the developer focused on eliminating the crash loop problem caused by updating multiple ex... |
6 February 2013
05:11 GMT |
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The Norwegian developer rolled out the first release candidate for Opera 12.14. The reason behind this unexpected update (there was no beta stage for it) is trouble with the recently released Opera 12.13. Less than a week after releasing Opera 12.13, the developer is urging users that work with the stable version to... |
5 February 2013
05:33 GMT |
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Opera 12.13 has been released and users are advised to update their installations as soon as possible because this variant addresses four security issues that could be leveraged by cybercriminals.
Arthur Gerkis has identified a DOM events manipulation issue that can be exploited to cause the web browser to crash. In... |
30 January 2013
07:08 GMT |
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The developers over at Opera rolled out today the stable release for version 12.13 of their web browser. This is the first final build of the application for 2013 and it is a recommended stability and security update. Some of the most notable repairs integrated in this release refer to an internal communication erro... |
30 January 2013
05:34 GMT |
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Opera rolled out today the second release candidate for version 12.13 of the web browsers. It does not include too many modifications, so it is very likely to see a stable build by the end of the week or at the beginning of the next one.
The change log announces that the internal communication error on Facebook has ... |
28 January 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Opera, an Internet browser developed by Opera Software that provides support for RSS feeds, BitTorrent, IRC chatting, contact management, and many other features, is now at version 12.13 RC1. Opera Software has released the first snapshot version from the upcoming 12.13 branch of Opera. Highlights of Opera 12.13 RC... |
28 January 2013
04:52 GMT |
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Opera and TECNO, a leading mobile phone brand in Africa, have announced the signing of an agreement for loading of the Opera Mini browser on the company’s devices on this continent.
The two companies will be offering a co-branded flavor of Opera Mini to all TECNO’s users in Africa as part of this partne... |
25 January 2013
13:41 GMT |
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Opera is getting ready to push the latest minor update to the desktop browser and has now made available the first release candidate for Opera 12.13. Opera is moving quite fast since it was only a week ago that the first snapshot release of Opera 12.13 was made available. Since it's such a minor release, there... |
25 January 2013
12:33 GMT |
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Mega, Kim Dotcom's, of MegaUpload fame, latest venture, is live and has proved quite popular or at least interesting. It's gotten up to 500,000 registered users in 14 hours and probably ticked the 1 million registered users mark by now. All this attention is proving too much for the infrastructure which i... |
21 January 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Opera is getting ready to launch yet another mobile browser, its third. Opera Ice is a brand new product, in all senses of the word. It was built from scratch and it was designed for touch input and gestures from the get-go. It comes with several innovations on the interface and user experience front, but perhaps the... |
19 January 2013
08:21 GMT |
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Opera rolled out the first update of their browser for 2013. It is a snapshot for build 12.13 of the application, currently available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux).
The developer focused on improving the performance with websites that have plenty of storage data, such as Twitter, by optimizing... |
18 January 2013
08:06 GMT |
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Opera has never been incredibly popular on the desktop, yet it managed to survive for decades. It's done it by branching out into other niches, low-end mobile phones, internet-enabled devices and more recently, TVs. To drive that point home, Opera is now opening up a TV app store. Opera is hardly alone in the ... |
8 January 2013
05:22 GMT |
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Around 9 pm on Monday, three hours after the Opera Apple Store in Paris closed its doors for the night, four armed robbers broke in through the back door and stole £1M / $1.6M / €1.2M worth of gadgets.Three hours after the store’s close of business and just as much time before the New Year, four mask... |
1 January 2013
14:51 GMT |
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We had a feeling that Opera 12.12 would roll out before Christmas and today the Norwegian developer delivered the stable version. The new build focuses on improving stability and security of the browser, no new significant features are available.
Opera 12.12 introduces the possibility to delete settings and data fro... |
18 December 2012
04:50 GMT |
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The second release candidate for Opera 12.12 has come, as the development team promised in an earlier blog post. As expected, it contains a brief list of fixes.
Significant for this revision is that a top crashing bug has been eliminated. The application would suddenly terminate upon exit.
Also solved is the proble... |
13 December 2012
03:46 GMT |
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The first release candidate for Opera 12.12 has rolled out. Since it is a stability and security update recommended to all users, there aren’t any new features available.
It comes with a short changelog, but the developer announces an even shorter one for RC2, planned to emerge later this week.
Starting with ... |
12 December 2012
10:18 GMT |
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The current snapshot for Opera 12.12 comes almost two weeks after the previous one. As usual, it is a development build so glitches and quirks are expected.
The fixes available in this release address stability issues as well as functionality problems. Some crash bugs have been eliminated and deleting private data s... |
7 December 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Google Chrome continues to dominate the browser market share, according to StatCounter numbers, the Google browser gained one percentage point in just one month, going from 34.77 percent in October to 35.72 percent in the last. This further distances it from Internet Explorer, the runner up.
IE ended the month with ... |
3 December 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Opera Mini is a very popular browser with feature phones and in places where connections are slow. Because all the data first passes through Opera's servers, where it's pre-processed and compressed, Opera Mini performs much better than a standard web browser on these devices.
It's precisely because al... |
30 November 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Today, Opera Software and Entel Chile announced a partnership aimed at providing millions of mobile phone users in the country with access to the web while on the go. The deal between the two companies involves the release of a customized flavor of the Opera Mini browser, and is part of Opera’s worldwide part... |
29 November 2012
16:01 GMT |
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With Opera 12.11 out of the way, the team is already working on its follow-up, obviously called Opera 12.12. As its predecessor, Opera 12.12 is an incremental update designed to fix existing issues and nothing more.
The first snapshot, designed for developers, testers and really bored/eager users, is available for ... |
26 November 2012
10:32 GMT |
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