Category: Opera
Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s beloved (or hated) Browser Ballot screen had no drastic effect after all.
While comparing Europe/North America and worldwide market share numbers, Neowin has come up with a conclusion that there is only as little as 1% difference between global and Europe figures.
So here you have it, Internet Explorer “dominance” continues.
HTML5: Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Google Chrome 8 vs. Firefox 4 vs. Opera 11 vs. Safari 5
Today, we test five most popular web browsers to find out, who leads and who lags in the HTML5 Benchmark (Beta).
Browsers
Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 9
Firefox 3.6
Firefox 4
Google Chrome 7
Google Chrome 8
Opera 11
Opera 10.6
Safari 5
WebKit
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Weekly Browsers Recap, October 25th
FavBrowser.com
• Browsers Are Awesome!
See the video.
• So I Close Firefox After Watching Some Porn…
Not 100% browsers related, but hey, it has “Firefox” in the title, so here…
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Firefox is #1 Again (SunSpider JS Benchmark)
Mozilla does it again, or so it seems.
According to the AreWeFastYet.com web site, Mozilla’s Spidermonkey JavaScript engine has just surpassed Google’s Chrome V8 performance by a small margin, at least in SunSpider benchmark. However, Chrome still takes the lead in V8 Benchmark Suite.
While it brings more drama to the browser wars, we’d still like to see Opera 11 numbers to be included as well.
Opera: How to Prevent Flash from Loading (Load on Mouse Click)
Do you want to load Flash videos (or other plugins) only after you mouse click on them? Here is how, go to:
Preferences > Advanced > Content and check “Enable plug-ins only on demand”.
P.S. This method will only work in Opera 11 Alpha and above.
See opera:config for alternatives.
Download Opera 11 Alpha
The wait is over. Opera Software has just released the alpha build of Opera 11 web browser.
The good news: it brings a little bit more than just extensions support.
The bad news: as of this moment, Opera extensions catalog is down.
Including already announced extensions support, alpha build also introduces:
– Opera Presto 2.6.37 engine, offering hundreds of bug fixes, enhanced Web Standards support as well as performance improvements and Websockets support.
– A new mail panel and bookmarks bar
– Enable plug-ins only on demand
– Updated installer
P.S. It looks like upgrade page has not been updated as well, as it still displays Opera 10.63 information after installation.
Update: Extensions catalog is now up.
Download Link: Opera 11 Alpha.
There’s a Golden Opera Logo in Google’s Demo Slam
Either I am into web browsers way too much or it’s actually an implementation of Opera Software logo.
Via Asa Dotzler blog.
Ask Opera Anything
Here you your chance to ask Opera team anything. Just head over to Reddit and ask them anything about Opera… OMG, anything?
Reminds me of this:
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Weekly Browsers Recap, October 18th
FavBrowser.com
• All the Way to Internet Explorer 13
It seems like Microsoft decided to increase its domain names portfolio, as company…
• New Firefox Trojan Spotted
It looks like a new Firefox Trojan is in the wild and none of the antivirus programs can…
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Weekly Questions Recap, October 18th
Unresolved
- How to find which Firefox, Chrome or other browser tab are playing flash or audio?
- Is it possible to use Silverlight in Ubuntu using Opera?
- Which browser do you think is better and easy-to-use?
- Do you think we can get purdi on here?
- How do I create Favicons?
