Opera 10.50 final was released just a few minutes ago after five published release candidates in the last 48 hours. Most users who have noticed the increased development pace of the new Opera browser suspect that it had something to do with the introduction of the so called browser ballot screen in Europe which can [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Three Opera Release Candidates In Two Days
Yesterday we reviewed the first release candidate of the upcoming Opera 10.50 web browser for the Windows operating system admiring the speed and functionality of the web browser as well as the impressive development speed. Imagine our surprise when we opened our RSS news reader to find out that Opera has released another two release [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 10.50 Release Candidate For Windows
Software company Opera has just released the release candidate of Opera 10.50 for the Microsoft Windows operating system. That’s an incredible pace considering that the first beta releases was a little bot more than 14 days ago although they did not make it in time to be included in Microsoft’s browser choice screen for Windows [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 10.5 Beta 2 Is Out
Someone must have turned a switch somewhere at Opera as the software company has increased the pace in which they storm through the alpha and beta phase of the upcoming Opera 10.5 web browser. Some users speculate that this could have something to do with the release of the Windows browser ballot screen in March [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Browser Keyboard Shortcuts Not Working On Some Websites
If you browse the Internet a lot and use keyboard shortcuts to speed up the browsing you will have encountered the following behavior. If you happen to visit a site with embedded content, such as Flash or a document that is being displayed on the page, then you cannot make use of the keyboard shortcuts. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 10.5 Beta Released
The Opera desktop team has released Opera 10.5 beta for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The first beta release incorporates “new features, stability improvements, and a security fix implemented during the Opera 10.50 pre-alpha release cycle”. Mac and Unix versions are currently in the alpha development phase but the team promised to deliver beta releases [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera Backup
Backups should be an important part of every computer user’s disaster recovery strategy so that important data can be recovered after hardware crashes, virus attacks or accidentally deletions. Backup tools can be divided into general backup software that backup all files and folders that a user wants to backup and specialized backup programs that backup [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera NoScript Alternative BlockIt
Regular readers know that I would make the switch away from Firefox to either Google Chrome or Opera if those web browsers would support both NoScript functionality and Last Pass. NoScript is a security add-on for Firefox that blocks scripts from being loaded when the website loads. The user has afterwards the option to enable [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera Releases Third Opera 10.5 Snapshot [Web Browser]
The Opera developers have released a new snapshot release of the upcoming Opera 10.5 web browser. The last snapshot caused troubles for many users who experienced crashes among other things. One could say that it is not seldom that pre-alpha releases show that behavior. One reason why the developers might have decided to release the [...]