The Opera development team has just released Opera 10.53 for Windows and Macintosh in response to a reported crash that might have been a security vulnerability as well. The release candidate of the new version of Opera was already available yesterday and there do not seem to be any additional changes in the final release. [...]

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Opera Software has just released an update of their popular web browser Opera for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating system. Opera 10.5x installations should pick up the update automatically. Users who do not want to wait for that to happen can check for updates manually by clicking on the Opera icon in the [...]

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Quick, what’s the fastest way to access a website? By typing the URL in the web browser’s Address Bar? Maybe for go.com, but certainly not for HasTheLhcDestroyedTheEarth.com. Is it easier to click on a bookmark link? Not if it is buried under Bookmarks → Larry → Technology → News → Blogs → Ghacks. How about [...]

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The Opera web browser was always the underdog in the web browser world. First it was Internet Explorer and Netscape battling it out and then later on Internet Explorer and Firefox. Opera was always a solid alternative that had a very loyal user base. The situation does not seem to have changed by much in [...]

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If there is one thing that you do not want to read as a web browser user or browser manufacturer it is that your browser has been exploited at a security conference while others have not. The Pwn2Own security conference is a competitive gathering of security experts who try to successfully compromise computer systems using [...]

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Opera 10.51 was released less than three weeks after the release of the Opera 10.50 milestone release. Three public release candidates were released in rapid succession before the final version of Opera 10.51. The new version of the popular web browser fixes many user interface inconsistencies and bugs that have made their release in Opera [...]

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The Google Chrome web browser was the last of the popular web browsers to get Windows 7 taskbar previews, a feature that displays open tabs of the web browser in the Windows 7 Taskbar. It is from there possible to directly access the open tabs. Not all Internet users that use Windows 7 on the [...]

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A security vulnerability in Opera 10.50 and previous versions of the web browser was uncovered by security research company VUPEN Security. The issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when the user visits a website with malformed HTTP headers. The security vulnerability has been confirmed to be working on Opera 10.50 for Windows XP [...]

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Opera is in the news quite a lot in the last couple of days. First they manage to rush out the final release of Opera 10.50 in a less time than some companies need to provide a patch for their application and then they are the first to release figures on the impact of the [...]

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