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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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
In: Opera
9 Dec 2009With the release of Opera 10.10 on November 23rd, it took only 7 days for Opera to record over 12 million downloads.
This is a 25% improvement over Opera 10 download figures from September.
“With such remarkable download numbers, I am confident that we truly appealed to the needs of the Web-using public. Opera 10.10 is [...]
In: Opera
3 Dec 2009It’s been a busy day for Opera, with the releases of two new beta’s for Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5.
The updated mobile browsers now include a new download manager, Opera Link which synchronises bookmarks and other browser data between devices, plus plenty of bug fixes for both beta’s.
More information and download links for [...]