Opera offers some pretty handy features that you can’t find on other browsers; the underdog always seems to try harder …
Opera has always been the underdog in the browser market, with browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Firefox or Chrome dominating it. While the browser’s market share is low in comparison, it is still an impressive feat for a small company like Opera Software.
Here’s an important upgrade for the Opera browser that doesn’t appear to upload automatically … yet.
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software has just released version 11.62 of Opera to the general public. The release is an update to the current stable channel of the browser replacing Opera 11.61 in the process. The web browser update has been released for all supported operating systems, that is Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and various Linux distributions.
Wow. This is kind of unusual; a spokesperson for Mozilla is recommending an alternative for Firefox 3.6 users who aren’t interested in upgrading …
If you are a Firefox 3.6 user you know by now that support for that branch of the web browser will end on April 24, 2012. As it stands now, Firefox 3.6.28, released on March 14, is likely the last version of Firefox 3.6. Mozilla will not update the version of the browser again unless a major security or stability issue forces them to.
I wonder why it took Firefox so long to catch up on this feature? Given all the recent Firefox updates, it seems like they would have addressed it sooner.
One of the things that has always annoyed me in regards to Firefox’s private browsing mode was the fact that the browser did close the active session before switching to that mode. And while Firefox offers to save the active session, that is the open tabs and other session related information, it is nowhere near as comfortable as a solution that would spawn a new private browsing window without affecting the active session.
Here’s a super cool extension for the Opera browser … but I bet YouTube isn’t gonna be very happy about it.
Google in recent years has started to add advertisement to the popular video hosting platform YouTube. Ads on YouTube nowadays come in a variety of ways, from sponsored channels to banner ads or in-video advertisement. The video hosting site currently supports two different kinds of in-video ads. First a video ad before the actual video requested by the user, and then ad overlays when the requested video is playing on the screen.
Mobile device users should probably find this one interesting …
Norwegian based Opera Software has just released Opera Mobile 12 and Opera Mini Next. Unlike on the desktop, where the Opera browser does not get much traction, it is Opera who is the leading browser on mobile devices.
Here are a couple of interesting new developments for the Opera browser …
Opera Software, as a Christmas present to their user base, has released an experimental Opera Labs build of Opera for all supported operating systems that adds two significant features to the web browser.
My experience with Opera is pretty limited, but this article makes me think I should probably check it out again …
The Opera web browser is the only popular web browser – and with that I mean market share wise – that ships with its own built-in email client. While I have not used Opera Mail in a long while thanks to the excellent desktop mail software Thunderbird, I have always followed the news closely. Opera is currently working on two different Opera versions. First the soon to be released Opera 11.60 and then on the version after that, Opera 12.
If you’re running Opera 11.51, then you probably want to check this out. It doesn’t sound that bad (as far as security problems go,) but it’s still worth addressing.
The Opera desktop team has released an Opera web browser update that resolves two security issue. The update fixes a non-exploitable security issue that “allowed injection of untrusted markup into the X-Frame-Options error page” and a “issue where manipulating fonts in SVG could allow execution of arbitrary code”.
Just in case you’re not completely happy with the “big three” of the browser world, here’s another alternative you might want to consider …
The last Opera release dates back to the end of August, which seems like ages in times when browser developers push out new versions of their browser in weeks instead of months or even years.
