Web browser news as it happens
In: Opera
5 Mar 2010Never fear Windows Mobile Opera Mini users, Opera has got your back, with the release of Opera Mini 5 Beta 1 for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 phones.
“By integrating Opera Mini with the Windows Mobile platform, Opera is able to deliver an optimized version of the popular Opera Mini browser that [...]
In: Opera
3 Mar 2010Overnight, Opera have released a finished Opera 10.50 into the wild, claiming that it is now the fastest browser in the world.
With an incredibly quick development cycle, the browser includes many improvements over Opera 10.
Opera 10.50 includes a new JavaScript engine, along with a new rendering engine, giving it an up to 7x speed advantage [...]
In: Opera
25 Feb 2010Opera have released Opera 10.50 Beta 2 for Windows.
The new browser contains many significant improvements over Beta 1 according to Opera.
Changes include:
Skin work, and tweaked styling of internal pages (opera:* and error pages)
Improved opera:config
Improved overlay authentication dialogs to avoid spoofing
Context menu fixes
Basic Web Storage user interface
Lots of crash fixes
Widgets fixes
A full list of changes [...]
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22 Feb 2010Microsoft has begun testing of its new browser ballot screen for European Union countries.
The ballot screen, which can be seen at http://www.browserchoice.eu/, lists the 5 major browsers in a random order, followed by 8 lesser known browsers also in a random order.
Early testing by DSL.sk shows the ballot screen might not be as random as [...]
In: Opera
15 Feb 2010Opera Software have released Opera 10.50 Beta 1 to the public, with a slew of stability and bug fixes since the first Alpha release.
New in Beta 1 is Aero Glass, Aero Peek, and Jumplists support for Windows 7 users, along with the new Opera Carakan JavaScript engine.
Early reviews and benchmarking shows Opera 10.50 is the [...]
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12 Feb 2010Private browsing will now extend to the Flash plug-in with Flash Player 10.1 Adobe have announced.
“Integrating with your web browser, Flash Player 10.1 will automatically clear stored data in accordance with your browser’s private browsing settings” said Adobe Engineer Jimson Xu.
Flash Player 10.1 supports private browsing with Internet Explorer 8+, Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, and Google [...]
In: Opera
11 Feb 2010Opera Software plan to preview Opera Mini for iPhone at the 2010 Mobile World Congress.
“We are thrilled to offer journalists and partners an exclusive preview of Opera Mini for iPhone during the year’s biggest mobile event,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software.
“This is a unique opportunity to introduce the fast, feature-rich [...]
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3 Jan 2010With 2009 now over, it’s time to analyse web browser market share over the last 12 months.
It’s been a big year for web browsers, with Internet Explorer taking a massive loss, down from 75.18% share in December 2008, to 62.69% share in December 2009.
Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera were all big winners, ending the year [...]
In: Opera
23 Dec 2009On que, Opera have released Opera 10.50 pre-alpha to the public.
So far, the browser is showing a lot of promise, with the new Carakan JavaScrpt engine being over 7 times faster than Opera 10.
Also new in this release is the Presto 2.5 rendering engine, with greater support for HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
New graphics accelerated rendering [...]
In: Opera
22 Dec 2009An early pre-alpha version of Opera 10.50 has leaked online, just a day before an official alpha release from Opera.
The leaked version includes new features, such as Windows 7 integration, Presto 2.5 rendering engine, improved find, and a new user interface.
Noticeably absent from this leak, is the new Carakan JavaScript engine, which from early Opera [...]