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Opera 10 now with Turbo, Released
Sep 1st
Opera today released their newest incarnation of their browser, the 10th version. Apart from the new “O” icon there is a lot to the new browser.
Apple Safari 4 – Trick to replicate Opera’s Sessions or Chrome’s Restore Pages option
Jun 19th
With Safari 4 released by apple many would like to try using this browser, likewise I too jumped into the fire and tried my hand at the new Safari 4.
The browser has a nice dose of the eye candy, the Cover Flow, the visual History pretty much the browser version iTunes.
Leaving the eye candy aside and talking about functionality one thing that hindered me from using the browser was the feature Sessions that we have in Opera and also chrome. In fact I was once a die-hard fan of Firefox but thanks to a buggy PC that crashed any time it wanted I kept loosing bookmarks and all the tabs that were open while browsing.
Opera pretty much saved me while that PC lasted, now Opera has pretty much become my default browser and no browser seems to take me away from it. Although Chrome a browser from Google though seems to have caught my fancy, the simple Ui and the “Most visited” feature is quite attractive.
Apple Safari 4 Beta Out
Feb 25th
Apple has released a Beta Version of its up comming lateset verion browser Safari 4.
Apple has posted “150” new features for this browser, below are some of them courtesy neowin.
Features:
Top Sites, a display of frequently visited pages in a stunning wall of previews so users can jump to their favorite sites with a single click;
- Full History Search, where users search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages to easily return to sites they’ve seen before;
- Cover Flow, to make searching web history or bookmarks as fun and easy as paging through album art in iTunes;
- Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab management tools and an intuitive button for opening new ones;
- Smart Address Field, that automatically completes web addresses by displaying an easy-to-read list of suggestions from Top Sites, bookmarks and browsing history;
- Smart Search Field, where users fine-tune searches with recommendations from Google Suggest or a list of recent searches;
- Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any website without degrading the quality of the site’s layout and text;
- Developer Tools – built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility; and
- Windows-native look in Safari for Windows, that uses standard Windows font rendering and native title bar, borders and toolbars so Safari fits the look and feel of other Windows XP and Windows Vista applications.
Download: Apple Beta 4
Opera 9.5 Released
Jun 12th
Hello,
It has been nearly two years since the last major release of our flagship Opera browser. Since that time, we’ve experienced significant growth, not only on the Desktop, but also on Opera Mini. More than 20-25 million people are using Opera on their computer today. More than 45 million people have used Opera Mini.
With this surge of growth, we here at Opera are coming closer to realizing our mission of providing One Web for everyone, anywhere they are, and whichever device they use. With Opera 9.5, we introduce Opera Link which merges your browsing experience between your computer and your mobile phone. Once again, we are releasing by far the most innovative browser.
Opera 9.20 Released
Apr 12th
Opera is a free Web browser with a pop-up blocker, multiple-window navigation, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, an e-mail client with a spam filter, and integrated search for user security and speed. The cross-platform browser includes IRC-compatible chat, support for RSS newsfeeds, a password manager, and one-click customization and privacy-protection settings.
Changelog:
User interface -
Added support for automatic search from address bar when entering more than one word.
Display and Scripting -
Manipulating content inside about:blank will now change the address of about:blank to match that of the manipulating page.
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Opera 9.10 Released
Dec 18th
It’s a fast, fun and easy way to browse the Web. Opera 9 comes loaded with the tools to keep you productive and safe. Try it today, it’s absolutely free!
Features
Advanced fraud protection
Opera’s advanced fraud protection protects you against web sites that try to steal your personal information. Watch the demo to learn how to enable this feature.
BitTorrent
You don’t need a separate BitTorrent application to download large files. Simply click a torrent link and start the download.
Add your favorite search engines
Right-click on the site’s search field and select “Create search” from the menu.
Opera 9 Final Released
Jun 20th
Opera today released the final version of the long awaited browser, version 9.
After a plently of monthly,weekly and daily beta releases opera finally released the final version of the browser.
Opera 9 boasts some very interesting new features. The new features includes a Bittorrent client which can handle all your torrent downloads, a content blocker which helps you block certain images ads rather and save your precious bandwidth. Another useful feature added is a search engine utility through which you can add any search engine you use to the list already builtin the browser example if you most often use wikipedia you can very well add a link to its search engine in the drop down list that opera provides for the builtin search engines with a mere right click thus saving your time ,rather than going to wikipedias site you can straightaway select wikipedia from the drop down list punch in the keyword hit enter and voila you get your results.The Thumbnail preview feature is a feature in its own class ,hower your mouse pointer over any tab open and a thumbnail of that webpage the tab contains pops out,this surely help you when you have lots of tabs open and have to quickly find that webpage in between all those tabs. Some browser fans have even tried getting into the registry settings to increase the size of the thumbnail .To move on to the features another feature called the site preferences. Site Preferences helps you specify how a specific webpage should be handled by the browser i.e you can turn off or enable cookies for that specific sites turn off enable gif animations, customize the style of the webpage i.e turn off frames etc. enable disable java scripts .The new features include improved support for Rich Text Editors.
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Opera 9.0 Technology Preview 2 Released
Feb 7th
Opera has released its latest of the Technology Preview for its Upcoming Opera version 9,Christined Technology Preview 2 it now supports Widgets and a Bit torrent Client.
Change Log at respective operating system download links as below
Download: Windows Opera 9 TP2
Download: Linux OPera 9 TP2
Download: MAC Opera 9 TP2
Opera 8.51 Released
Nov 22nd
Opera has a newer version released,well not officially but the updated browser was found at Opera’s FTP by an Opera forum member.
Changelog has been added please click at the link i have put up.
Download: Opera 8.51
Download: Opera 8.51
View: Changelog
Opera’s Next codename “Merlin”
Sep 20th
Merlin is the name of a small falcon, an Ancient, and as Olli mentioned, the code name of our next major release. Since we released Opera 8.5 today without banner ads, we thought we’d tell everyone some of the things they have to look forward to in the future from Opera. We’ve been working hard on the next major release for quite some time and we’re getting ever closer to releasing a preview.
Here at Opera, we like acronyms. In QA, we use acronyms and abbreviations every day. We have stuff called SPARTAN, OASIS, SNORRE, BTS, etc. In fact, we like acronyms so much, we’ve stuffed a bunch of them into Merlin. You might recognize a couple: XSLT 1.0, WF2, a new IMAP back-end, and some CSS3 Selectors. Of course, we can’t fill Opera with just acronymns, so we stuck in designMode (rich text editing). Oh, there’s more, but we can’t reveal all our secrets now.
Don’t worry, we also had to fix a bunch of bugs. So, we made OBJECTs and IFRAMEs respect z-index, improved our margin-collapsing code, fixed problems with width inheritance for positioned elements, and nearly completed support for Acid2. There’s way, way more to talk about, but that’ll come later.
Enjoy 8.5 and look forward to Merlin. It’s going to be great!
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