Want to see what other web browsers have to offer but have no interest in installing any of them on your computer system? You could hunt down the portable versions of those web browsers that you want to try out if they exist; Or, you could use the virtual browsers at Xenocode which allow you [...]
Web Browser: Opera Face Gestures
The Opera team is never shy when it comes to introducing new features in their Opera web browser that are then copied by other browser developers and added to those web browsers as well. Their newest feature is called Face Gestures and as the name implies it allows Opera users to control web browser functions [...]
Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta Announced
A recent blog post at Opera.com revealed the near release of Opera Mobile 9.7 for Windows Mobile touchscreen Devices. The new beta version of Opera Mobile will come with several interesting and important enhancements but unfortunately no Symbian support. Among the features are the new Presto 2.2 rendering engine that is passing the Acid 3 [...]
Web Browser Popularity
If you take a look at the five most popular web browsers you will notice huge differences in popularity among them. The web browsers in question are Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome. Firefox was – and is still – the only web browser that was able to take away a [...]
Web Browser: Opera Turbo Preview
Opera Software has made available a preview version of their much acclaimed Opera Turbo technology. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X users can download a preview version of Opera 10 containing Opera Turbo, a new function that is using proxy servers to compress the traffic before it reaches the Opera browser on the client’s computer [...]
oGET integrates Download Managers Into Opera
oGet is an extension for the Opera 9 web browser that integrates 27 different download managers into the browser. It works similar to Flashgot, the popular download manager extension for Firefox, by adding menu entries to the right click menu of the web browser. The following new features are added by the oGET extension: catch [...]
Opera Turbo
Opera positioned itself as one of the marketing leaders in web based compression software solutions with their Opera Mini web browser which utilized Internet traffic compression to reduce the load time on mobile devices. This was achieved by sending all network traffic through specifically crafted Opera servers which compressed the traffic before it was send [...]

