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The final that is non-beta (test version) version of Opera 11 has been released.

Opera 11 brings several important improvements, including extensions, tab stacking and visual mouse gestures to the browser.

Tab stacking: Lets a user organize tabs into groups by dragging and dropping tabs onto other tabs, In simple, making creating Tab “stacks.”

Extensions: Lets a user enhance Opera’s basic functionality with a number of add-ons available from Opera’s extensions catalog. Just like one does for with browser extensions, “You Blog a lot ? then why not use a browser add-on or extension to make blogging easy; by posting right from the web page you are currently on” etc.

Other new features: Visual mouse gestures, an improved auto-update system (which now makes sure that your Opera, its extensions and Opera Unite apps are up to date), and a new e-mail panel. Download Opera 11 from Here.

Welcome compatibilities brought in: Opera 11 brings HTML5 support, as well as many performance improvements and memory issue fixes.

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Announcements , Browsers , Opera

Opera 11 launched: brings Extensions,Tab Stacking and Visual Mouse Gestures

Anil Singh Friday, December 17, 2010

Opera Software, the world's largest mobile browser firm, has bought
Australian web-based email provider FastMail.FM. The buy aims to expand its own messaging offering to wireless devices

It should be noted that Norway-based Opera, whose wireless browser is more used than Apple's iPhone browser, has had its own email offering for years. The specific step in the web based email provider is seen as a proactive step from the firm in this regard, as it will give Opera knowledge of Web-based email systems, and enable expanding its current email offering.

FastMail, has around 250,000 active users. Opera has declined to comment on the price if paid for email service.

Opera too considers this buy from the perspective that most of people will be experiencing the Web on a mobile device for the first time, hence it makes sense to extend their messaging capabilities to all devices. ---------

Announcements , messaging , Mobile , Opera , webmail

Opera buys webmail firm for mobile messaging

Mr Bisht Saturday, May 1, 2010

Browser maker Opera, unveiled on Thursday a version of its Mini mobile browser for use on cellphones running on Google's Android software(os).

Opera Mini is the world's most widely used browser on cellphones, ahead of Apple's iPhone browser.Google's Android, introduced in late 2008, won 4-5 percent of the smartphone market last year, and its popularity is increasing, with several top handset vendors like LG Electronics and Motorola increasingly focusing on using it.

Users can Download Opera Mini directly to their Android phone. To download, simply visit m.opera.com/next with the Android browser or search for Opera Mini 5 in the Android Market. For more information, visit http://www.opera.com/mini/next/. ---------

Android OS , mobile os , Opera

Opera unveils mobile browser for Android

Anil Singh Friday, March 12, 2010

Not even 20 days have lapsed since Microsoft started offering (limited showing since mid feb and full rollout since march 1) a “Web browser choice screen” to Internet Explorer users in Europe, as required by the European Commission; but results are already showing.
Browser maker Opera said on Wednesday it had seen a surge in downloads of its browser after Microsoft started making it easier for Europeans to choose smaller rivals' browsers. Since choice screen roll out, Opera downloads have more than tripled in major European countries, such as Belgium, France, Spain, Poland and the UK.

Encouraged by the new market dynamics, Opera launched a new version of its browser this week.

opera is among 12 browsers, including Microsoft's own Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, Apple Inc's Safari and Google Inc's Chrome, that the world's biggest software maker is showing on the more than 100 million old and new PCs that use its software.

On December 16, European Union regulators accepted Microsoft's pledge to give European consumers better access to rival Internet browsers in Windows, ending a long antitrust dispute with the U.S. software maker.

What surge in Opera downloads owing to offering choice by Microsoft points to?

It shows that monopoly does harm healthy competition. Big companies do have the power to stifle smaller players. The stifling power of big players becomes more powerful in the PC software business, where most users don’t bother to look for choices (the whole idea of a PC is to offer choices at each step) unless choices are rolled out in front of their eyes, with one click to opt in. ---------

Analysis , Opera , Web Browsers

Opera gains after Microsoft starts showing Web browser choice screen

Anil Singh Thursday, March 4, 2010