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Internet Explorer 6 Funeral Pictures
“On March 4, 2010 Aten Design Group held a funeral for one of the most amazing browsers ever, IE6.” Via atendesigngroup flickr. P.S. Microsoft sent flowers as well. ...
Firefox 3.6 Reaches 100 Million Downloads
Back in January, the final version of Firefox 3.6 was released. Now, few months later, Mozilla reports that web browser has already been downloaded more than 100 000 000 times. Download Firefox 3.6. ...
One more update was released for Apple Safari users, as company announced the availability of Safari 4.0.5 web browser, for Windows and Mac operating systems. This is a recommended update, as it offers performance, security and stability improvements, such as: - Performance improvements for Top Sites - Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins - Stability...
Today Opera Software has released the very first beta of Opera Mini 5 web browser for Android platform. Just like all the latest Opera Mobile/Mini versions, it is packed with fresh user interface that includes speed dial. Some of the other great features are: password manager and data synch (Opera Link). You...
Microsoft Tweaks Browser Ballot Screen
As ballot screen was pushed at the beginning of March, various users started noticing anomalies behind random browser order. For some reason, it would favor Google Chrome, increasing its chances to be first, second or third in the list. As a result, Microsoft has tweaked random order algorithm, which solved this issue....
Opera 10.50, Rushed, Unstable and Fast
Just before Opera 10.50 Final release, BetaNews has published an article called “Is Opera 10.5 ready for the March 1 ‘choice screen?’” which provides some great points (thanks to nobody for link). Well, why not give it a try? After using Opera for about a week (~12 hours/day), I come up...
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SVG adds style.filter - now, where have we seen that before?
We've been working away on Opera's SVG support for a while. Recently, integrating SVG-specific CSS properties into the DOM implementation caused an unexpected problem: the "filter" concept in SVG styling and IE's proprietary "filter" suddenly exist in the same namespace - the CSSStyleDeclaration interface. If that was greek to you, here's...
Get the news if you haven't seen it already (with apologies to those of you who already read it - I know I'm three busy days behind in re-posting this news item :) ). I've been waiting for this and I hope open-sourcing Dragonfly will teach us some things about working...
Came across the blog post so, you think you know JavaScript? by Dmitry Baranovskiy. It's a pretty nice little 5-part quiz on JavaScript quirks. I admit I did have one wrong answer (the fourth one), what's your score? Rather than just linking to it I'll explain all the examples and why...
Follow browser.js updates and news here...
Tracking down finnair.com's missing i
I guess Finnair is the household's favourite airline. I don't think I've used any other carrier during the last three years or so - we don't travel that much, so we're not talking many flights overall. However, it was rather annoying to find its website broken last time I wanted...
New adventures in compatibility testing
I'm having some fun trying to figure out how sites use document.getElementsByName(), and thought some of you might be interested in the testing approach. The bug I'm investigating is a small and ugly one hiding in the document.getElementsByName() implementation - getElementsByName('someID') will find an element with id="someID". This is of...
Choose Opera
Opera Mini 5 beta on Android: Why?
In a recent blog post by ZDNet, they wonder: "[...] what incentives users might have to choose Opera Mini over the native Android browser (or over Safari on the iPhone, for that matter)." What do you think? Let them know if you think Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android is a...
World Bank designs game to be compatible with Opera Mini
The World Bank Institute, the learning arm of the World Bank, has launched an online computer game called EVOKE, designed to get young people involved in finding solutions to urgent problems like hunger, poverty and education. The winners of the ten week game could be mentored by social innovators...
Opera Mini 5 beta for Android is finally here! Featuring all your favorite Opera features such as Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, compression, speed and a smooth design. We know many of you have been waiting a long time to get Opera Mini for Android, so we're very excited to hear what...
The Opera Brasil group wants your help
We want your aid in picking a new header for the Opera Brasil group blog! For a time now, Opera fans in Brasil has created some really cool blog headers, and we're ready to pick one to represent the new look and feel of the blog. :) All we want...
Experiment: Try Opera for one week
Vladimir Carrer, a Web designer and developer from Italy, is taking on a challenge to use Opera 10.50 as his primary browser for a week. He's a passionate Firefox user, but he has put himself up for a browser challenge: Originally posted by Vladimir Carrer:"Why I’m doing this experiment? Probably because I...
The browser ballot from BBC Click
A few weeks ago we asked you to send BBC Click a video and let them know about your browser of choice. We're not sure how many of you sent in a video about Opera, but we're very happy with the one they picked, so thanks to whoever made it!...
Planet Browser News
Previously, when the Application Update billboard is created for a release the billboard’s size had to be verified for each locale and platform since they determined the size of the billboard in the user interface. This was, to say the least, not a simple task and the people that had...
This is the first 10.51 Release Candidate for Windows. The changes since the previous build are mostly stability fixes, and there's some work on improving Carakan memory usage compared to Futhark. We have also fixed a minor issue related to performance. Let us know if you discover any regressions or other...
This week’s (10) weigh-in for QtWebKit trunk
This week’s heaviest contributions were Antonio’s directional navigation and Benjamin’s scrolling optimization for pages with fixed positioned elements. Antonio landed his work for spatial navigation, making it possible to navigate through links and widgets with the cursor keys. The long list of patches also includes layout test coverage, DRT support and...
Using setitimer of your favorite posix kernel
As this was requested in a comment of a previous post and knowing your kernel helps to write better performing systems here is a small information of how to use the interval timers provided by your posix kernel.What is the interval itime?rThe interval timer is managed and provided by your...
Hi, In this post, I will introduce you to some of the most compelling Facebook add-ons for Internet Explorer 8. Share with Facebook Accelerator The Share with Facebook Accelerator allows you to share any text, link, or page with your Facebook friends with a single click. You can use this accelerator by selecting...
Hi! I can introduce myself as a passionate Mac user for more than twenty years (!) and I recently joined the Mac team after helping out with 10.50 Final on Windows. As you understand it is all hands on deck now for the upcoming 10.5 Final for Mac. Mac HighlightsMany Mac...
Tweak
Now that Opera 9.5+ ships with a set of keyboard shortcuts where cat-owners are protected from accidental exposure to Opera's features by disabling the single-key shortcuts by default, I wanted to expand the shortcuts that can be enabled with the checkbox under 'Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts'. After...
I've been playing around with a new setup, that should be usable, useful, but also 'small' in a visual sense. So without a menu bar! Almost all Opera functions will be easily accesible. But not necessarily all from the main toolbars, which was what the ribbonesque Twelve setup tried to...
lightning at sunset Originally uploaded by wvs Testing the 'blog this' option from Flickr. This is my current desktop background image....
[edit 2008-06-15]Updates updated: made the setups offered here compatible with 9.5 Final. Same URLs, a few new versions. I'm going from light blogging to no blogging apparently... a bad trend. I'm a little bit active on Twitter now, but not in a way that compares to my past blogging here. When...
Tim has tagged me in an internet game of answers, one...word...at...a...time. Where is your mobile phone? pocket Describe your girlfriend: happy Your hair: gone Your mother: ashes Your father: busy What is your favourite gadget? phone What did you dream last night? nothing What do you prefer to drink? coffee Dream car? none What room are you currently in? kitchen Your ex? nope Your biggest fear? fear What do you want to be in 10...
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Opera Community News
Join us for a journey to Brazil, where we find this week's highlighted blogger. :yes: She caught our attention with submissions in the header competition and her her awesome guide (in Portuguese) explaining how to style your My Opera blog. :up: Her blog is a mix of tips and tricks, music...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Winners
Our Battlefield: Bad Company 2 contest has come to an end. We are astonished by the amount of entries to this contest and it makes us want to do more contests featuring video games. :) Here are five gamers we feel deserve a copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. We will...
On Sunday evening (7th of March) we will take My Opera down for a quick maintenance. Fear not, we will of course have our trusted favorite game Bubbles while we work backstage! Who will have the highscore this time around? :cow: ...
This week we want to highlight renacor, a fantastic photographer on My Opera from Poland. He's been a member since October 2005 and it's about time we highlight some of his epic shots. Enjoy! :yes: 1Reminds us of Frodo and Sam walking into Mordor from Lord of The Rings. Epic...
Win a free copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Share your best gaming experience We know many of you are video game nerds and this week Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is made available in North American and Europe. We're giving you chance to win one out of five free copies for either PC, XBOX 360 or Playstation 3. All you have...
Buongiorno Opera fans! The last couple of days I've been resting in beatifully Tuscany with my new buddy, Daniele. :) We've done loads of cool things, such as Web browsing, studying and of course some sightseeing. I've had a blast. :up: I have also received news that the folks at Opera has...
About.com Web Browsers
Get the Full Effect of Web Pages
Most browsers give you the ability to view Web pages in full screen mode, hiding all elements other than the main browser window itself. This includes stifling the display of tabs, toolbars, bookmarks, and status bars. Full screen mode can be toggled on and off very easily, and...
Control Your Firefox Downloads
Downloading files via your browser has become a part of everyday online life for a lot of us. Whether it be an audio clip, a picture, a video, or even an entire Web page, Firefox provides the ability to control the behavior of these downloads. This can be...
Our computers are sometimes reflections of ourselves, whether we realize it or not. Someone who keeps a tidy office, for example, is likely to maintain a Windows or Mac desktop free of clutter. On the other hand, those of us with not so neat workspaces tend to have...
The winners of the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Awards were announced today, following an exciting and sometimes tense voting period. While the victors in some categories may not take anyone by surprise, there are several dark horse winners that may shock you. In the browser-related categories, Opera Software took home...
Have you noticed that Firefox's Tab Bar is always in view, even when you have only one Web page open? This can be annoying, especially to someone that does not like to use tabs at all. This feature, along with hundreds of others, can be modified through the...
On February 25, voting for the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Awards will close. As we come down to the wire, there are some hotly contested races out there so be sure to get your votes in if you haven't already! Best Mobile Browser Both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile jumped out...
Dev Opera Articles
Web Storage: easier, more powerful client-side data storage
This article covers Web Storage, a new W3C specification supported in Opera 10.50 that allows data to be saved on the client-side in a much more powerful, more secure fashion than before. Here Shwetank Dixit discusses both facets of Web Storage - Local Storage and Session Storage - and how...
This style guide gives useful suggestions for how to design your Opera Widgets, combining creative visual design with usable design....
Our Opera 10.50 pre-alpha release introduced Opera support for the HTML5 <video> element - video in the browser with no plugins or proprietary formats. This article gives you an introduction to <video> and some of its associated APIs. We look at why native video support in browsers is important, give an...
Adding a docked mode to your widgets
Opera Widgets are required to be run on various devices under differing UI constraints. In some cases, the UI needs to be interactive and in others only informative. To support this, Opera Widgets can be viewed in different modes, each mode giving the widget a slightly different environment to render...
Mobile widget development process advice
Generally, we recommend that you develop your widget on desktop, test your widget in the Widget Emulator, and test on the phone when you're done....
Cross-device development techniques for widgets
This article looks at techniques, code examples, and tips for doing cross-device development of widgets. The techniques are grouped into the following sections: Usability, Architecture, Layout, Images and effects, Network, Client-server communication, DOM, and JavaScript....
Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks
Reduce integration drag area in non-maximized Opera window
Opera in non-maximized state will show 13 pixel interaction drag area above the tab bar and it can be changed as shown below. Change Chrome Integration Drag Area value to 1. Save. Maximize and restore down to see the change. Chrome Integration Drag Area = 13 (Default) Chrome Integration Drag Area = 1 1 pixel above...
Quickly enable or disable a style using keyboard shortcut/mouse gesture
Author mode and user mode styles can be switched quickly using the default keyboard shortcut, Shift+G but there is no shortcut to enable or disable other styles except View > Style menu. Any style can be enabled or disabled quickly by using action codes Select user CSS file and Deselect user...
Sri Krishna and Arjuna on a chariot during Kurukshetra war in Mahabharata The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India, the other being the Ramayana. Originally posted by ayayay1rancho: I was pleasantly surprised by the read. The Mahabharata is a very interesting read. Many of the characters had individual plots...
Opera Community Member Statistics for 2009
YearTotal membersNew membersAverage members per dayIncrease 2004127,000*--- 2005266,098139,000*381- 2006606,982341,090934145.39% 20071,214,936607,9541,66678.24% 20081,950,356735,4202,00920.97% 20093,625,0891,674,7334,588127.72% * = Approximate 27,386 members joined in a single day (June 17, 2009) :eyes: after Opera Software unveiled Opera Unite. The percentage increase in members increased more than 100% after 2 years. :up: My Opera will reach 5 million members in May and 7 million members at...
Maximize Opera viewing area for better browsing experience
I don't use any toolbars except tab bar to get maximum screen space for browsing. Here are a few tips to gain more space for viewing websites in Opera. Hide menu bar Shrink entire menu bar to a small button in tab bar File > Show Menu Bar. You can also remove...
Web page looks different in Opera?
If web page looks different from normal then you might have enabled User Mode or style sheet. To bring back normal look disable all except Author Mode in View > Styles. Normal look (Author mode) Accessibility layout Block structure Outline Table of contents Look with various styles...
Library Blog Buzz
New International Telephone Directories, Prejudice, Conflict Reduction Online Database And A List With Top Free College Courses New resources were highlighted this week like by Resourceshelf blog: International Telephone Directories and Prejudice and Conflict Reduction Online Database. I am familiar with Infobel telephone directory but I am sure that...
Have you ever wanted to send a text message but being able to delete it after a while from your and your friend's inbox because of privacy issues? TigerText does exactly that and Daily Bits explains how. TigerText lets you send text messages that delete off on your phone and...
It is Google time again. The biggest change since the last time we wrote about Google is Google Buzz, new application that allows to share information pictures, videos, and your location with all of your friends in Gmail. Making the list of "who you follow and who follows you public"...
Browse Through The Main Events, If You Haven’t Had A Chance To Go To The ALA Midwinter
I took 1 week off from posting for the first time in 3 years because I needed the time to prepare for 2 exams for the CompTia A+ certification and I am pleased to report to you that I am now fully certified A+ technician. More info on CompTia A+...
Search Anonymously With Startpage and Bypass Internet Filters With Proxy Sites
Phil Bradley from Phil Bradley's weblog decided to take more in depth look inside proxy sites and anonymous browsing. With proxy sites one can surf incognito and get around forbidden sites at work and school. The term proxy site most commonly refers to an open proxy, which is a web...
Encore, the discovery search product by Innovative Interfaces now has its own statistical reporting tool called Encore Reporter. For example, Encore Reporter can now tell staff circulation statistics for each hour, even at self-check stations, within a single branch. Plus, our rapid-iteration with development-partner libraries provides a steady stream of enhancements...
My Opera News
As you might have guessed, we've been having quite some stability problems lately. It looks like this is suddenly increasing today. That might be because of the increased traffic generated by the awesome Opera 10.50, but we know we have other problems too. Unfortunately, the cause it's not really clear yet. We're...
Main files server moving to a different data center
We're migrating our main files server, files.myopera.com, that keeps your precious files and pictures, to a different DC. This is part of a grand plan to better distribute and balance resources across our data centers. The moving is planned in a few minutes and shouldn't affect file uploads or downloads in...
New year's Latest activities bug fixed
I'm not sure how many of you noticed, but there was a subtle bug in the Latest activities code, the one showed on the My Opera front page when you are logged in. The bug triggered exactly on January 1st, and it had to do with dates processing in the Twitter...
Just in time for Christmas we've released an update for My Opera, this time codenamed Elderberry. (Btw here's a recipe for making Elderberry jam in case you needed that) This release's changes include: Activity feed updated, "Home" is now your home on My Opera. New Community section with...
Back to our primary master database
My Opera is now back to our more powerful primary master database. In fact, since the switch we have been running on our secondary (as primary :) Now our old primary, that became secondary, is the primary again. :) We officially switched part of the My Opera database to InnoDB. This has been...
My Opera now running on a master to master replication setup
The scheduled database maintenance was completed on Saturday. Well, it wasn't exactly maintenance, but rather an important change of setup. Now My Opera is running on a master to master replication setup, instead of the classic master-slave that has been running for some years now. There's at least 2 good reasons...
A Blog From Behind the Trenches
I use Safari because I keep forgetting to download Opera...
BBC's Click Online is airing a piece on the browser ballot, which includes a statements from the execs of the various browser vendors, and video comments from users. I think the best part of the video is the girl at 04:05, who is supposed to explain why she uses Safari: I use...
Opera's Triple Triumph at the About.com Reader's Choice Awards
What a thriller! After a lengthy voting period and more than 20000 votes in the most active category, the results from the About.com 2010 Web Browser Reader's Choice Awards are finally in. It was a tight race at times, but a clear winner emerged in the end: Opera ......
Microsoft plays dirty against other browsers in Russia
Our Russian community manager Ilya noticed that members of our Russian forums made an interesting discovery on Microsoft's Russian site. If you open the page with a different browser than IE, you will get a popup ad for Internet Explorer. That's not necessarily wrong in itself, of course. The problem...
It's time for the financial results for the 4th quarter of 2009. There is a slight decrease in revenue since Q4 2008, but keep in mind that the NOK was extraordinarily strong at that time compared to USD and EUR, and that it is much weaker now. The currency effect is...
Jon Hicks is leaving Opera, and you can hire him!
Jon Hicks just announced that he's leaving Opera (mirror). As you probably know, he has been doing his thing here at Opera for a while, and I must say it has been great to work with him. He started out by making Opera Mini and Opera Mobile look beautiful and modern,...
Apple to cooperate with Opera on Opera Mini for the iPhone?
My previous blog post asking for AT&T to "nudge" Apple into accepting Opera onto the iPhone was apparently published a bit prematurely! Now it looks like beating the drum about Opera Mini for the iPhone actually worked. According to Norwegian IT site Digi, Apple gave Opera a call (Norwegian) after the announcement....
Desktop Team
This is the first 10.51 Release Candidate for Windows. The changes since the previous build are mostly stability fixes, and there's some work on improving Carakan memory usage compared to Futhark. We have also fixed a minor issue related to performance. Let us know if you discover any regressions or other...
Hi! I can introduce myself as a passionate Mac user for more than twenty years (!) and I recently joined the Mac team after helping out with 10.50 Final on Windows. As you understand it is all hands on deck now for the upcoming 10.5 Final for Mac. Mac HighlightsMany Mac...
Following on from the 10.51 snapshot for Windows. Here is a nice little suprise for our UNIX users. It includes all the Core and Carakan fixes of the 10.51 Windows snapshot, plus a little something just for UNIX: our latest improvements to GTK integration. Whilst UNIX remains in alpha status for...
This Opera 10.51 build brings a few important fixes to the e-mail client. We have also been working on stability, and some tweaking of performance related to JavaScript timers, which should lead to smoother animations in some cases. Some bugs related to customization have been addressed as well, along with...
We're closing in on the 10.5 Final for Mac, and we've been working hard on getting it ready. Of course we have been working hard on all the platforms but Mac has made some big strides this week. Mac HighlightsFix for extensive CPU usage and slow down Drop downs display...
Opera 10.50 for Windows is released
Windows 10.50 is released and we are still the fastest browser available! If you haven't downloaded it yet, what is taking you so long? Head over to www.opera.com/download, to get your hands on it now. We have gone from Pre-Alpha to Final in just over two months (with a Christmas holiday...
Opera Browser Wiki - RecentChanges
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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 at 20:41 GMT, PowerButtons was edited by LittleBonobo: ‘Highlight selection’ button/ context menu item : changed name and improved functionality and description....
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 at 09:17 GMT, GmailImap was edited by XaleHaseo: Added link to the useful http://www.pcmech.com/article/setting-up-imap-enabled-gmail-in-opera-924/...
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Outpost Users Support Forum
Heavy Performance decrease with Outpost 6.7.1
Hi there, its troubling and I have experienced this with different versions of Outpost and a different OS equally. The thing is, that outpost after an unknown amout of time after booting begins to severly decrease the system performance in a way which I would describe as "affecting...
I have held off upgrading from OP V4.1025 on the principle If it ain't broke ... Unfortunately, it now seems that V4 is showing some cracks. The main problem seems to be with Firefox V6 which gives me frequent BSODs. I worked around this by dropping back to Firefox 3.0.x,...
Version: 6.7.3 (3063.452.0726) OS: Windows 7 (OEM) Problem: Despite setting 'DNS API Request' to 'Block' in various programs' anti-leak settings, they still manage to trigger DNS lookups from the windows Generic Host Process. Even with 'report' checked, I get no notifications when the API......
How to secure a VPN/tell if there are leaks?
So, I recently subscribed to a VPN that _anonymizes all web traffic_ and, regarding torrent leaching and seeding, how can I tell if my true IP address is leaking torrent activity? I've done a lot of searches and looked all over a bunch of forums, and I've learned a...
Sandbox64.sys affecting services.msc display
Outpost 6.7.x has a curious effect on services.msc window display. If I open Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services window and extend it to the right, the extended window part will be black and columns will not resize. If I extend it toward the bottom of the screen, the window contents will......
It's in my temp dir. after upgrading to OSS 6.7.3.3063 and grows quickly to multi-megabyte size....
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