Not every Opera user has the cutting edge snapshots of the upcoming Opera 10.60 browser installed. The latest public version of Opera is 10.53 and users of that or an earlier version are asked to updated to Opera 10.54 immediately to close several security vulnerabilities in those Opera versions. The announcement at the Opera Desktop [...]

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Someone must have flipped a switch over at the Opera headquarters in Norway. The developers of the popular Opera browser have accelerated development of the browser over the last months. The release of the highly acclaimed Opera 10.50 did not seem to have slowed down the developers who have now made available the first beta [...]

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Google has made lots of changes to its search website in the past year. A few of the noteworthy, and often distracting changes, include the new fade-in homepage which only displays the search form until the visitor moves the mouse, the sidebar that is displayed on search result pages or design changes to buttons and [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Search Engines

Most Internet users who read about HTML5 and how it is going to change the web might think it is all about HTML5 video as the controversy surrounding it was all over the news lately. But HTML5 promises more than just a new video web standard, it introduces several new elements and attributes while getting [...]

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The Google Chrome developers do not seem to be the only browser developers who have accelerated their browser development in the last year. Opera Software has just released alpha 1 of Opera 10.60. The new version sports a 50% increase in the browser’s JavaScript, DOM and CSS performance, eye candy and a lot of bug [...]

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The topic of streaming video to a friend’s computer came up yesterday evening. Direct experience is often the base for excellent articles and this will hopefully make no exception. The first option that we tried was VLC Media Player which offers streaming but that did not work out that well somehow. Maybe it was because [...]

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Opera users who want to synchronize the web browser can do that with Opera Link easily. Opera Link synchronizes bookmarks, notes, the browser history and a few settings between browsers if the same Opera Link account is configured properly. Not everyone wants to use Opera Link on the other hand. The two main concerns are [...]

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Statistics provided by Internet metrics company Net Applications confirm several trends in web browser and operating system usage. The Windows 7 operating system is still gaining market share mostly at the expense of its predecessors Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows XP lost another 1.05% of market share accumulating to a total market share loss [...]

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You might have heard about HTML5 and specifically HTML5 Video in the news lately. How it is supposed to replace Flash based video players eventually. Some websites are already experimenting with HTML5 video players including Youtube and Dailymotion. Two standards are currently competing with each other to become the HTML5 video standard: Ogg Theora and [...]

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