Category: Opera Software
New Data Center For America
Opera Software has announced that it will be opening a new data center for Americans to better serve almost 130 million Opera Mini users. Why? Apparently serious hardware is needed to accommodate the close to 80 billion web pages, or 11.4 petabytes, served through Opera Mini each month. Users of Opera Turbo will surely benefit as well.
What Opera Software evidently intends to do with this new data center is provide American users with even faster browsing. In addition to that, the new data center, located at the Fortress Colocation Centers, follows Opera Software’s commitment to the environment, for it uses 80% renewable energy. Sounds great for American users!
Weekly Browsers Recap, October 3rd
- Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 Passes 30% Share in the US
- CSS3 text-shadow in IE10
- IE9 Mobile Developer Overview
- Double Trojan infects IE, Firefox in one swoop
- Firefox devs mull dumping Java to stop BEAST attacks
- Top 9 Firefox fixes
- Firefox 3.6.23 security update now available
- Google’s Chrome browser: Coming soon to Android?
- Google Chrome Stable and Beta Channel Updates
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Opera: Amazon’s Silk Browser is Flattering, But Five Years Late
- Opera: A shining new [bookmark] star
- HTML5 Template Generators, Frameworks And Tools
[Thanks, Ichan, RamaSubbu SK, Shane Bundy]
Opera Buys Handster
Today, Opera Software has announced the acquisition of Handster, an independent Android content library, which also offers developer tools, services to mobile operators as well as device manufacturers and other app stores.
According to the press release, Handster supports a variety of platforms, including: Google Android, Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, netbook, tablet applications and has customers from such device manufacturers as MTS, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei and LG.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 12th
- Opinion: What Microsoft Must Accomplish in IE10
- Who Stole My Pictures Is a Firefox Extension That Helps You Locate Copied Images
- Google Chrome gets automatic single sign-on, brings security risks
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Researcher raps Apple for not blocking stolen SSL certificates
- Opera promises cross-platform apps for Smart TVs, gives us little to complain about
- One of the reasons why we made Opera Unite
- Opera Wahoo 12.00 Extensions improvements
David Storey: A Look Back And Forward At Opera
With the recent departure from Opera Software, David took some time to share his personal thoughts regarding the situation in the company and its products.
Some of the key aspects in the article are:
– Stop adding new features and polish Opera desktop instead.
– Make the bug tracker public.
– Build Opera Widgets into a real platform or drop it.
– Scrap Opera Unite in its present form.
– Invest more in the developer tools.
– Focus on consumer products instead of selling custom solutions to partners, which requires custom work for both Core and platform code. According to David, this is what Opera is doing right now.
Any thoughts? Click here for a full article.
[Thanks, KORraN]
Opera Dragonfly 1.1 Released, Core Developer Leaves Opera
It seems that Dragonfly is not yet dead. 4 months after releasing the initial stable build of Opera Dragonfly, it has now been updated to the version 1.1.
In the official post, David Storey wrote, “around 3 and a half months ago we launched version 1.0”, which is not actually true as Opera Dragonfly 1.0 was releases on May 4th and that was 4 months ago. While that’s nitpicking, it looks like even its developers are ashamed of the release cycle train wreck that Opera Dragonfly had.
Furthermore, David Storey, a guy who is responsible for the Opera Dragonfly development, has announced that he will be leaving the company, right after 1.1 release.
For all the new features and changes, see the original post.
[Thanks, MarkG, Mikah]
Opera 11.51 Is Out!
Going by what the Choose Opera blog has to say, Opera’s Desktop Team has been rather busy these past few days. The reason? Well, while working on Opera 12.00, they also managed to release Opera 11.51 which brings along security and stability updates.
There are also some minor tweaks and fixes for all platforms. The latest Opera version also supports the Full Screen application mode introduced in Mac OS X Lion.
As always, the newest version of Opera can be downloaded from here.
Opera Software Q2 2011 Financial Results
Recently, Opera Software has released their financial results for the Q2 of 2011. According to the report, there are now more than 200 million Opera users that use web browser every month, which suggests that Opera Software counts its users if they open the program at least once every 30 days.
2Q 2011 Financial highlights
Total revenue (MNOK): 214.8 (2Q11) vs. 168.9 (2Q10)
Desktop user growth 20% versus end of 2Q10
Over 122 million Opera Mini users
Over 200 million Opera users
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Alternative Windows Phone 7 Web Browsers? We Need Them
Dear Opera,
Please bring Opera Mobile with Opera Turbo to Windows Phone 7. Seriously, the only reason why I (and probably few other people) haven’t switched to WP7 is because of the lack of web page compression in IE9.
Thank you.
Signed, current and potential WP7 users.
Weekly Browsers Recap, August 29th
- “Browser X is using Y MB of memory with Z tabs open” is a meaningless observation
- Mozilla WebAPI wants to replace native apps with HTML5
- Want a Faster Firefox? Pale Moon 6.0 Can Help
- Bing ad serves malware to would-be Google Chrome switchers
- Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Opera: Top Five Extensions
- Calling All Developers: Opera Developer Events
- 15 (More) Inspiring HTML5 Experiments
- Mozilla puts mobile Firefox on the front burner
[Thanks, Dirk Finken]
