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Opera Mini 6.5 And Opera Mobile 11.5 Hits The Streets

By Vygantas | October 17, 2011 | 2 Comments

Opera Mini 6.5 And Opera Mobile 11.5 Hits The Streets Brings data usage reports and other goodies.

Opera Software, the Norwegian browser maker, has recently released an update for both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile web browsers.

According to the company report, Android only updates now include a “Data Usage” view, which (when Opera Turbo, a web page compression technology, is enabled) allows users to see their bandwidth savings.
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Opera 12: Disable Search Suggestions

By Vygantas | October 13, 2011 | 14 Comments

Opera 12: Disable Search Suggestions

With the release of Opera 12, users can now enjoy search suggestions. However, if you are one of those people (myself included) who are not particularly happy about this change, here is a simple solution to disable already mentioned functionality:

– Type opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowSearchesInAddressfieldAutocompletion in the address bar.
– Uncheck the “Show Searches In Addressfield Autocompletion” checkbox.
– Reward yourself with a cookie, job well done.
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Play Emberwind Game In HTML5

By Vygantas | October 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

Now here is something to help you pass the time. Emberwind, the arcade title made by Indie developers, has been ported to HTML5 by Opera Software for your (and their own) enjoyment.

Don’t worry, it’s not as boring as some “playable” tech demos, check it out.

Game on.

Download Opera 12 Alpha

By Vygantas | October 13, 2011 | 29 Comments

Download Opera 12 Alpha

This is it folks, the alpha version of Opera 12 has been just released, bringing performance improvements and other goodies.

According to the official report, Opera 12 includes hardware acceleration support, which currently uses OpenGL backend. However, DirectX support is coming as well.
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September, 2011: Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer – Down

By Vygantas | October 11, 2011 | 14 Comments

It is October already and there’s no time to waste. So, let’s dive into the latest browsers market share results and explore those changes.

Just a couple more months and Internet Explorer will break the 50% market share barrier, this time it lost 0.62 point, down from 51.59% to 50.97%.
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Opera 12 To Bring Ragnarök, GPU Accelerated Graphics

By Vygantas | October 7, 2011 | 58 Comments

Opera 12 Brings Ragnarök, GPU Accelerated Graphics Download pre-alpha now.

The latest weekly build of Opera 12 web browser has few significant changes that are worth mentioning.

First of all, it now includes Ragnarök, Opera’s HTML5 parser engine (you can read more about it here), secondly, improved CSS3 gradient support and lastly, support for CSS3 radial gradients.

There is one more thing that is not yet mentioned. Remember when we said that opera:gpu shows a blank screen page? It now brings the following (when running on Windows 7 with ATI Radeon HD 5670 (DirectX 11) graphics card):
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Is This Opera Mini? No, Chuck Testa

By Vygantas | October 6, 2011 | 8 Comments

Is This Opera Mini? No, Chuck Testa According to the latest TrendMicro report, malware creators have found a new toy to play with: Opera Mini.

A Russian web site that loads for mobile users only and looks similar to the Opera.com home page now offers a piece of malware, disguised as OperaMini.jar

Upon visit, a user is notified about the new update that should be downloaded, which, when installed, will start sending text messages to premium numbers.
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New Data Center For America

By Armin Seuchter | October 4, 2011 | 4 Comments

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!