Posts Tagged ‘browser’

Opera 9.61 released

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Opera 9.6 - Making you faster

Dear Opera Software, for years I’ve used your wonderful browser and you keep making it better all the time. I’ve grown dependant on your flag ship features and wonder why the rest of the world is still ignorant of your beauty.

I missed the window of opportunity to post about the new version of the Opera Web Browser. I waited so long they came out with an even better version with a few bug fixes. By now I hope you know that there are more ways to access the Internet than the little blue E on your desktop. People might of talked you in using Firefox, or even Google’s Chrome. As for myself I press you to try out Opera.

As far as features go they’ve kept improving on the existing ones. They added better IMAP and RSS support, extended features of their Opera Link service that synchronizes Bookmarks, Notes, Browsing history and Speed Dial across different Opera Browsers (laptop, office, mobile device). It might be considered a small incremental update from 9.5 but steadily improving a great product is a good thing in my book.

Opera 9.5 vs Firefox 3

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Opera vs Firefox SoldiersSome might remember my infamous Opera 9 vs Firefox 2 vs Internet Explorer 7 post. I’ve decided to take a look back in the past and repeat the experience as new versions of both Opera and Firefox appear to be nearing release. In contrast I’ve chosen to leave the upcoming IE8 out of the battle because it does not seem to be coming as soon as it’s competitors. Safari along other browsers are probably very functional but they don’t spike my interest and don’t seem to make as much flame wars material.

For this review I’ve installed Opera 9.5 Beta 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 5 and aimed at comparing them. Lets get whatever is common out of the way. Tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker, anti-phising, RSS feed, skins, integrated search, anti-phising. All this is well and pretty much all the browsers woke up and followed the trends that became quite successful.

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