Unofficial Opera 10.50 Beta for Unix
It reads Alpha but its a Beta, Opera 10.50 beta for Unix is around, but has not yet been announced, and it’s still blazing fast, just like the alpha – Opera says this version (Opera 10.50) is up to 8 times faster than the previous version, i don’t doubt it.
Opera Browser gets a taste of Open Source, Dragonfly Set free
Dragonfly is certainly the first Opera project to go open source, it has always been released under the open source BSD license, with source repositories on Opera servers. On fully open sourcing Dragonfly the source repositories have been moved to the public Mercurial repository BitBucket.
Chrome 4 gets 40,000 Extra Extensions [User Scripts]
Many years back, Aaron Boodma wrote the Greasemonkey extension “exclusively” for Firefox, now working with Google, he has bent and twisted Greasemonkey so well that thousands of user scripts written in JavaScript now natively work in Chrome – just like any regular Chrome extension. Its a big smack to Firefox, if you consider that its [...]
Opera 10.50 Pre-Alpha Snapshot for Linux, Mac and Windows
Opera developers have released another snapshot of the upcoming Opera 10.5 web browser. In the previous release, Linux builds were absent, this new snapshot marks the return of the penguin. But Mac and Linux versions of Opera 10.5 are much behind in development with respect to the Windows version. Opera intends to roll-out Opera 10.50 [...]
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 abides by the host Browser’s “Private Browsing” mode
Windows, Linux, Mac: Upcoming Adobe Flash Player 10.1, still a beta 2 pre-release, will introduce many new features like the Windows-only H.264 video hardware acceleration support. In this new version flash will accept without objection your wish to browse in the private mode, it will automatically clean-up your flash history once you terminate the session. [...]
How to run Opera Mini browser on your Computer
For Windows, and Linux: Opera Mini, the mobile version of the Opera web browser is certainly one of the best mobile browsers out there. Unlike Mozilla’s Mobile browser, Fennec, Opera Mini does not have builds for your computer, so you can’t get to test it before loading it into your smartphone, unless you use [...]
Opera and Firefox Downloads in Germany Skyrocketed after Warning against Internet Explorer
First came the warning from the German, Australian, and French governments respectively against Internet Explorer, then came the rush to get safer web browsers like Opera and Firefox.
The graph above (from The Register) is very explicit, in Germany alone, Firefox got 300,000 extra downloads in just four days.
Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha For Unix/Linux Drops Qt Libraries
Last week Opera 10.50 pre-alpha was released for Windows and Mac platforms, the Unix version was still in the making and got into the wild yesterday. Opera 10.5 pre-alpha for Unix is now QT libraries non-dependent, so Unix platforms can ride Opera without having to install these these libraries;
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha with Improved UI released [Mac and Windows]
[Screenshot updated]
Two days back I presented an unofficial or “back door” version of Opera 10.50 pre-alpha with “Private tab”.
Today the official version is out with Private Tab/Window browsing confirmed (“you can open a new Private tab or Private window that forgets everything that happened on it once closed”.) but with an overall new [...]