Opera Software drops support for Solaris Operating System
Opera Software drops support for Solaris and vows to maintain support for Linux and FreeBSD UNIX-like environments. As the note reads, “in order to ensure a consistently high quality browser across our most popular desktop platforms we have reluctantly decided to drop support for Solaris. This will allow our UNIX development team to focus all [...]
Opera Mobile Emulator: Test and Debug Mobile-Friendly Sites on your Desktop
For Mac, Linux, Windows; Opera, the browser of the moment (according to Kabatology) has good news for web developers. After landing in-grand-style on the iPhone planet, and making a record one million downloads in first 24 hours, has released ‘Opera Mobile Emulator’ – a desktop version of Opera’s smart phone browser. Opera Mobile emulator allows [...]
Opera Mini downloaded One Million Times in first 24 hours in iTunes App Stores
Do you still doubts the browser of the moment is Opera, Mini. Well, this is for you, Opera Mini was downloaded one million times in its first day of availability in each market, and is currently the most downloaded iPhone app in iTunes App Stores, in 22 different countries including the US, UK, France, Germany, [...]
Opera, The Browser Of The Moment, Lands on iPhone
The “little red communist browser” as some call it is without doubts the browser of the moment. Yesterday, in a press release, Opera Software announced that Opera browsers exceed 100 million users – 50 million desktop users and 50 million mobile users. Well, Opera Mini, the mobile version of the Opera web browser has always [...]
Opera Browser, Widgets as standalone Applications [Opera 10.5x]
Opera 10.51 (and 10.52) for Linux has been completely rewritten from scratch, with the hope of resolving long time outstanding issues says Ruari, one of Opera’s developers in this blog post. Apart the code overhaul (the .rpm and .deb packages have cleaner post-install and pre-uninstall scripts and the tarball install script is entirely replaced, added [...]
Opera 10.51 UNIX packages (.deb, .rpm & .tar)
The Opera development team has released Opera 10.51 UNIX packages; .deb, .rpm & .tar, but do Linux fans really need it, I say no. Opera 10.50 for Windows Final is already out there, Opera 10.50 for Mac is now a Beta – Opera 10.50 for Unix/Linux is still an Alpha, so Unix/Linux users have two [...]
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 [...]
