Just a day after posting the first look at Opera 12 on Ghacks the Opera team decided to release the alpha version of the browser publicly. The review the other day was based on the latest snapshot release, and while changes between that latest snapshot of Opera and the alpha are scarce it justifies a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Opera 12 First Look
The last Opera release dates back to the end of August, which seems like ages in times when browser developers push out new versions of their browser in weeks instead of months or even years. News about the next Opera browser version and Opera Software in general have almost come to an halt in that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 14
Change Default Browser, Quickly Switch The Default System Browser
One web browser is always the default system browser on a computer system. That’s the program that is launched when you click on links for example. The majority of computer users on Windows come into contact with multiple browsers. They got Microsoft’s Internet Explorer installed by default on the system and download and install at [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Opera 11.51 Update Released
Opera Software has just released the final version of Opera 11.51 after two release candidates that have been released in the past week. The new version of the web browser fixes several stability issues which makes it more of a maintenance release than a release that comes along with new major features. Still, Mac users [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 8
Opera Software Readies Opera 11.51 Maintenance Release
When I look at the feeds in my RSS feed reader I cannot help but notice that the Opera browser is not receiving the same attention that the Firefox and Google Chrome browsers receive. This puzzled me for some time now and I figured that it is either caused by Opera’s marketing of the browser, [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 17
IE9 decimates other browsers for socially-engineered malware protection in report
Security firm NSS Labs have been running some tests on different modern web browsers to see how they defend and protect their users against socially-engineered malware. This is malware that attempts to trick users into installing it, much in the way Apple Mac users have been suffering with the recent spate of ‘Mac Defender’ malware. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 15
Opera Releases First Opera 12 Snapshot
It has been eight days since the release of Opera 11.50, called Swordfish. In that time the new browser version was downloaded more than 32 million times. While that pales with download rates of Firefox and Google Chrome, it is still an astonishing feat for a web browser that is neglected by the majority of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Opera Speed Dial Extensions Overview
With today’s release of Opera 11.50 comes a new feature that turns the static new tab page into a dynamic page. Speed Dial Extensions work basically like standard add-ons with the difference that they run only on the new tab page and not on other pages. They can be used to display information in real [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Opera 11.50 Final Released, Download Now
Despite releasing Opera 11.50, Opera seems to be one of the few browser developing companies left that have not yet jumped to an accelerated release cycle that shoots browser versions through the roof. That does not mean that the company is not pushing out new versions of the browser, but when they do, they use [...]