We are looking at Opera Widgets in the third part of our Discovering Opera series. You can read about Opera Turbo and Opera Unite in the two previous parts of the series. Most users know widgets probably from their operating system. In Windows they are called gadgets. They are small applications that serve many different [...]
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Opera Unite Overview, Discovering Opera Part 2
We are taking a closer look at Opera Unite in our second part of the Discovering Opera series. Opera Unite – just like Opera Turbo – was introduced introduced in 2009 by Opera Software. It can be best described as a server or direct sharing module in the web browser. You cannot share anything with [...]
Opera Turbo Overview, Discovering Opera Part 1
The developers of the Opera web browser have been inventive in past years, and it is a confirmation of their hard work that many of the features that they have introduced in Opera are now part of nearly every other Internet browser as well. Not all features on the other hand have been “borrowed” by [...]
Opera 11.10 Download Available, Grab Your Copy Now
Opera Software is usually pretty quick in releasing the final version of the Opera web browser once they have reached the release candidate stage. This time it took four release candidates before they shipped Opera 11.10 final. Downloads are already available on the main Opera homepage, and Opera 11 stable users should see update notifications [...]
Opera Tab Vault, Temporary Tabs Storage
How do you handle new interesting websites if you do not have time to use or access them right away? Some users like to keep the sites open until they do, even if that means that the website will be open in a tab for a day or two. Others use bookmarks to save the [...]
Zoom Image Userscript
For a while now I have been looking for a way to zoom images in the Firefox web browser with minimal effort. Something similar to the excellent Hoover Zoom extension for the Google Chrome browser. And while there have been some extensions and userscripts that supported some sites, there was barely anything that would work [...]
Opera Exclusive: Twitter Search And Notifier
Twitter: Love it, hate it. Even the biggest Twitter critics have to agree that the social messaging service must be doing something right. Yes, there is lots of automatic messaging going on and spam, lots of spam. But underneath that pile of junk, you find valuable information. New product and software releases for instance, or [...]
Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 Mobile Browsers Released
March seems to be the month of the big web browser releases. Microsoft started the fray with Internet Explorer 9, followed by the final version of Firefox 4 yesterday. Now it is Opera with new versions of the Opera Mobile and Opera Mini browser. First of, what’s the difference between Opera Mobile and Opera Mini? [...]
Web Browser Benchmark Results Comparison
I compared web browser benchmark results back in 2008. Illustrious browsers such as Google Chrome 1, Firefox 3.1, Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 or Opera 10 alpha were tested and compared. The results from back then are history, with the majority of tested web browser versions no longer available. Google for instance has recently released [...]
Opera 11.10 Beta, New Speed Dial, Better Web Standards Support
Opera Software has just released the first beta version of Opera 11.10 Barracuda. Users who have followed the development on the Opera Desktop team blog know that Barracuda introduces several new features. The feature that has been talked about the most is the new and improved Speed Dial display on new tab pages. Opera has [...]
What’s The Best Bookmark Manager?
Every web browser comes with bookmarking capabilities, and while bookmarking is not as popular as it was ten years ago, it is fair to assume that the majority of computer users make use of bookmarks. What is a bookmark? Standard bookmarks are nothing more than links that point to a web address. Bookmarks are like [...]
How To Download Facebook Videos
Facebook first introduced video support back in 2007 and has since then improved the feature, for instance by adding high definition video support. Users can actually encounter two types of videos; Videos that are hosted on Facebook after they are uploaded by users, and videos that are embedded in messages and wall posts. Facebook itself [...]
Opera Hardware Acceleration Demo Is Blazingly Fast
Two of the top five web browsers on today’s Internet do not support hardware acceleration in their latest public releases. We are obviously talking about the Opera browser and Safari. Opera however has tweaked their implementation of hardware acceleration in the browser since 2008, when the company released a first working demo. Three years later, [...]
Bookmarklets For Annoyances On The Internet
The Internet is full of annoyances. That does not mean that you encounter them on every website you visit, but chance is relatively high that you stumble upon sites regularly that have features that you find annoying. This starts with pretty basic annoyances, blinking text for instance or background music which are thankfully more or [...]
Opera Speed Dial Improvements
The latest Opera 11.10 alpha snapshot which got released yesterday contains changes to Opera’s speed dial feature, among other improvements. Speed Dial was first introduced in 2007 by Opera and has since found its way into other web browsers either as a built-in feature or extensions as well. Speed Dial basically displays a thumbnail list [...]
Webcomic Reader, Godsend For Comic Lovers
What’s the main difference between reading comics online and reading physical comic books? Flipping pages usually takes more time online, the speed depends largely on the user’s computer and Internet connection speed. The userscript Webcomic Reader offers a partial solution for the problem. Partial? Yes, it is only compatible with site’s specified b the developer. [...]
First Opera 11.10 Barracuda Snapshot Released
I’m usually not reporting on snapshot and non-public builds anymore as it would fill the blog with reviews about new web browser releases. This time however I’m making an exception. Opera Software has just released the first snapshot of Opera 11.10, codenamed Barracuda. That in itself is not that spectacular; This changes however if you [...]
Opera YouWatch, Tracks, Hides Watched Videos On Youtube
One of the things that is not perfect on Youtube is the fact that videos that you have already watched are still showing up in search results. Youtube could at the very least add a marker to let users know that they have watched that particular video in the past. Not everyone may think this [...]
Opera Make It So Extension Resizes Images Automatically
Images on the Internet may sometimes be larger in resolution than the web browser window. This may happen if the web browser window is not maximized, but happens as well if the image’s resolution is larger than that of the monitor resolution. The only option to view the image completely is to resize the image. [...]
Opera LinksRedirector Extension, Redirect Links Automatically
Some websites and services display interstitial pages which some users may not want to see. Google Images is an example for that. A click on an image search result does not load the image directly in full size, but an interstitial page. Users who only want to see the image in full size need to [...]