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Opera Launched New Browser for Mobile Devices

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:34:39 +0000

Opera Mobile 10 beta for Symbian/S60

Opera made a revolution for mobile devices browser, with 10 out opera mobile beta will be compatible with Nokia mobile device and smartphone-based smartphone Symbian/S60.

These features remain essentially taken with-Dial system speed, tabbed browsing, and a password manager. As for compatibility with the handset, this software will be adaptive in both handset models and touch-screen navigation-style keypad.

For business performance, this beta version of the core. Faster than Opera Mobile for Symbian/S60 earlier. These significant differences will appear when users download web pages or zooming and panning. In addition, this software is also able to integrate with Opera Turbo allowing users to save time and money for adopting the technology ’server-side compression’.

The following details the full features:
a. Fresh design: Display a simple but intuitive so as to facilitate its function as a web browser.
b. Favorites: menu items include tabbed browsing, speed dial, and a password manager. This all will make it easier for users to browse the various sites in mobile situations but still can save time spent to open the website.
c. Advancer Compability: the latest generation of the Opera browser engine ensures that all sites and favorite applications will operate properly
d. Availability: Opera Mobile beta 10 is compatible with Smartphone-smartphone Nokia, Sony and Samsung Ericsoon operating Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th editions.

Opera Mobile 10 Beta was Released

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:06:44 +0000

Got to love Wednesdays and Thursdays. Usually, that’s when software vendors release new applications and various updates. One of such releases is Opera Mobile 10 Beta 2 for both, Symbian/S60 and Windows Mobile handsets. Just like Opera Mini 5 Beta 2, this version also includes Opera Link and download manager. Also, some bug fixes and few other improvements.

Changelog

Windows Mobile and Symbian

Opera Link
Download manager
UI is more finger-friendly on touch devices
Possible to manage search engines
Opera remembers page position and zoom state when moving in history
Column snapping also on touch
Better memory management
Fix for mobile view crash
Start page available from touch menu
Lots of minor bug fixes
Clear cache setting

Windows Mobile only

Asks whether to set Opera as default browser on install
Fix for crash on startup (occurred on some devices due to encoding in bookmarks that were imported)
Shortcut support

There are also some issues, be sure to check them in http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2009/12/02/opera-mobile-10-beta-2-for-both-symbian-s60-and-windows-mobile

Hole in Great Cina Firewall was sealed by Opera

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:24:56 +0000

Opera has sealed the hole its Mini browser tunneled through the Great Firewall of China.

With the international version of Opera Mini – the company’s Java-based mobile browser – Chinese users had found a way of freeing themselves from local net filters, accessing sites otherwise banned by the government. The browser shuttles all net traffic through compression servers located outside the country, and naturally, those servers lack Chinese filters.

But on Friday, as reported by the BBC’s Beijing bureau, Opera switched all Chinese users from Mini’s international version to a Chinese version that uses local compression servers – and local filters.

Chinese Opera users, the BBC says, no longer have access to Facebook.

Opera confirmed the move with The Reg. “The difference between the Chinese and the international versions is that the former connects to compression servers within China while the latter connects to servers outside China,” the company said in a canned statement.

“In more direct terms, this means that users of Opera Mini in China are using Opera’s servers in China to fetch, compress, and process the Web pages before they are returned to the mobile phone.”

The company would not discuss the reasons for the change. But we’re assuming the decision wasn’t made on its own. Opera did confirm that Chinese users have no choice in the matter. They must “upgrade” to the Chinese version and use the local proxy servers.

Opera says Mini has 35 million users worldwide but it’s unclear how many of those users are in China. ®

Updated Plugin for Big Buffer-Overflow Bug in Opera

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:19:39 +0000

Opera has fixed three potentially nasty security vulnerabilities with the release of a major new version of its web browser software.

A heap buffer overflow bug involving the string to number conversion technology in previous versions of Opera created a means to inject hostile code onto vulnerable systems. Opera version 10.10 plugs this hole, along with an problem with error messages that posed an information leakage risk. The update also addresses a “moderate” security issue discovered by Google, details on which are being withheld. More on these bugs in a security advisory from Secunia http://secunia.com/advisories/37469/

The release of Opera version 10.10 on Monday marked the debut of Opera Unite, a web server technology that now comes baked into Opera’s browser software. The technology allows users to stream music or share files, such as photos, directly from their browser.

The update also addresses a large number of minor stability and performance glitches, as explained in Opera’s release notes heree : http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1010/

Opera Beats Microsoft’s Windows 7 E Movement

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:49:20 +0000

The Register writes:

Microsoft is continuing to insist it has gone to great lengths in recent months to appease European antitrust watchdogs by saying it will “respect the user choice of the default browser” in Windows.

However, rival browser maker Opera, which brought the original complaint about Microsoft tying its browser to its operating system to the European Commission in 2007, continues to proclaim the software giant hasn’t gone far enough yet.

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on July 17, 2009

Opera Re-invents Web

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:02:07 +0000

No more info (yet), expect for the “hidden” comment in opera.com/freedom source

“We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer.
Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to connect them together. To share things … “

Also, the following tweet: “We are! We’ve put the internet on a USB stick so that you can always have a connection wherever you are!” (Thanks to Cqoicebordel for pointing that out).

Update: But as these little networks grew, some computers gained more power than the rest and called themselves servers…

Update 2: Today, millions of people are connected together in a great web …

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on June 11, 2009

Launching of Opera 10 Beta version

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:04:54 +0000

6 months after the 1st Alpha and yesterdays leak, Opera Software has officially launched the very first Opera 10 Beta release.

Besides already reported features, such as: new skin, visual tabs, opera turbo, crashlogging tool, speed dial configuration and resizable search field, Opera 10 Beta also brings faster browsing experience (40% performance increase), “Web integration” and more.

For some more details, please check the
official beta page, changelog or just download and see for yourself.

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on June 3, 2009

Guide to Utilize Silverlight in Opera

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:07:24 +0000

As I still see some threads popping out on how to install Silverlight on Opera web browser, though will make it clear:

Despite the fact that it gives you an “unsupported browser” error message when trying to download it, ignore that. Just download and install, it will work (there are issues though).

Joe Stegman however,
listed a few of them which you might want to consider before installing it:

1. The MS AJAX issue.
2. Silverlight does not work in Opera when using windowless mode (
). This will show a blank page with the Opera status area saying “Click to activate and use this control”. This is being investigated by the Silverlight team and has also been reported to the Opera development team. The only work-around is to not use windowless mode.
3. The Silverlight TextBox cannot receive focus (and therefore you cannot select/change text in the TextBox). There is no current workaround to this issue.

Download Silverlight:
Windows Mac
Close Opera
Install Silverlight
Open any page which requires Silverlight
Enjoy?

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on May 12, 2009

TLS 1.2 is Supported by Opera 10

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:14:42 +0000

The upcoming release of Opera 10 Final will support TLS 1.2, Opera’s Core developers said earlier today.

According to the recent post, new features of 1.2 are:
•The way calculation of encryption keys is performed is made more dynamic, and new ciphersuites (set of encryption methods used by a connection) can define their own method, rather than having only the default one. This was necessary because some suites, such as a russian one, could not be used with the default method.
•The default digest method is now SHA-256, offering stronger security.
•Several new cipher suites (using existing encryption methods) also use SHA-256.
•It has better ways to negotiate what signature algorithms the client supports.
Although there is no official release date yet, leaked information reveals that Opera 10 Final will be probably released as early as September, 2009.

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on February 25, 2009

Opera Mini 4.2 was Launched

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:15:59 +0000

Opera Mini 4.2 Final was just released which features some great new features and performance improvements. With the release, new promotional video was made as well.

What’s new?

Skins – Personalize Opera Mini by choosing a new colorful skin.
Video – We are working to make video content available on more phones through Opera Mini.
Performance – Opera Mini 4.2 can use our newly established server park in the US. This means significantly faster page page downloads for users in the Americas and Asia-Pacific region.
Sync your Notes

Changes since beta:
Small font now contains Cyrillic
Some language fixes
Bugfixes based on your feedback

Unfortunately, the final version doesn’t load on my Samsung SGH 700 phone (Loading screen stucks), although beta was working fine.

Download Opera Mini 4.2

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on November 25, 2008