One of the many things that Opera is doing really well is providing an easy way to changing themes in the web browser. Everything from choosing a theme to downloading and installing it can be done from right within Opera without having to open a website first. Firefox is providing a similar service since version [...]

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A new version of the excellent web browser Opera has been released today. The browser which many Opera users consider superior to the other major browsers is stuck at about 2% market share which is slowly on the rise according to the Browser Statistics published by W3Schools.
The new version of Opera is a recommended security [...]

Tags: opera, opera 9.62, opera browser, opera market share, opera presto, opera security, security update, web browser
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The Opera development team just released the second beta of Opera 9.5 Mobile yesterday and a new final version of Opera for desktop PCs just a day afterwards. Opera 9.61 is a recommended security update which is already distributed by Opera’s internal update checker which alerts user if new versions of Opera get released.
A total [...]

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Opera 9.6 has been released just a day ago and the Opera team did a fine job of integrating some interesting new features in the new version of the web browser. The release is a security and stability update that did introduce several new features. Since it is a security update it is a recommended [...]

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The Opera Mini browser was designed with mobile devices in mind. It compresses the contents before they are send to the device of the user who is running Opera Mini which results in lower bandwidth needs because the traffic is routed through an Opera server first to achieve that.
Pritesh pointed out that there is a [...]

Tags: low bandwidth, opera bandwidth, opera browser, opera mini, opera-tips, volume based
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Since here at gHacks we seem to be on a bit of a Firefox and Opera theme I thought I’d share a couple of things I have discovered to be useful when using Opera.
Widgets
When I first began using Opera, only a short time ago with version 9.0 my first reaction to the widget options was [...]

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Opera fans rejoice. After a seemingly endless series of Beta versions and one release candidate the Opera developer team has finally uploaded Opera 9.5 final to the ftp site. The release is available in English and for International users and cannot be downloaded from anywhere else currently. The homepage still states coming soon which will [...]

Tags: opera, opera 9.5, opera browser, opera updates
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