Opera announced today that they have acquired Mountain View based Skyfire Labs. + On his blog, Skyfire CEO Jeff Glueck commented: Opera and Skyfire are a natural fit. Both companies have extensive focus on operator products well beyond our well-known consumer web browsers, with complementary geographic strengths (Skyfire in North America, Opera globally and especially across the entire developing world). Skyfire brings cutting-edge products like Rocket Optimizer and Skyfire Horizon that are proven in commercial deployment, and signed customers including 3 of the largest U.S. wireless operators. Our technology in video, app optimization, and mobile browser personalization for smartphones and…

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Opera announced today that they have crossed the 300m users mark. The browser has seen an increasing adoption amongst users across all its platforms. I’ve been using Opera for several years now at a time when it was ad-supported. It’s not my primary browser because I miss the extensive extension support that Firefox and Chrome provide, but it is a good alternative. Till now Opera has been using Presto as the rendering engine. However, this is something that they have been dedicating tremendous resources to maintain and in order to grow, Opera has decided to adopt Webkit and focus its…

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Opera has always been one of my favourite browers. It’s fast and they have steady update to valuations. It still needs to go a long way to get close to Chrome or Firefox in terms of add-on support, but it’s a good alternate browser, if you need one. The Opera team have released 12.10 beta. Opera 12.10 beta offers a big boost of speed, along with better compatibility across websites, improve standards support, new capabilities for extensions, as well as with the major operating systems in use today. New features include: Support for Windows 8 and Mac OS X 12.10…

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If you’re like me you probably have a huge number of browsers installed on your system. And surprisingly, I use most of them at some point of time or the other. One main reason is for testing whenever I am working on a new theme or site. If you’re using browsers for browsing, you will feel lost when you don’t have all your favorites in place. Transmute is a bookmark converter that enables you to import and export your bookmarks and favorites between Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Apple Safari, Chromium, Flock and Konqueror. You can export bookmarks…

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Opera 10 Alpha has been released with brand new features that’s made is faster, better and well as usual ready to capture its share back! Presto 2.2 Engine Performance boost 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test Auto-update Inline spelling checker Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days Widget Improvements on Linux Opera 10.0 Apha passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect 100/100. I ran the test on other browsers and they were far far behind! – Windows – Windows Classic – Macintosh – Macintosh (Intel-only) – UNIX

Ever since I activate GPRS on my Nokia N73, I’ve kept myself busy hunting for various applications to install and run on my mobile. The purpose has always been to keep me connected even when I am on the road. After a good deal of testing and trying, I’ve zeroed in on a few must have applications for any avid mobile user (with an internet connection of course). Opera Mini Opera Mini is the highly popular Opera Browser ported to the mobile platform. Opera has always been my number one browser of choice and Opera Mini was the first application…

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Think of Opera to find innovative methods to make our browsing smoother. The newest release of Opera now includes SpeedDial. SpeedDial looks very much like your regular phone dial and functions similar to your mobile phones’ speed dial feature. You can add your favorite sites to the speed dial and whenever you open a new tab you can access the sites with one click. Alternatively, you can also use Control + 1 through Control + 9 to access the sites. Besides the new feature, the release changelog also mentions several security fixes and the addition of Developer Tools. Did I…

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Opera Watch points out an interesting easter-egg in Opera. If you type /. in the address bar, you get redirected to Slashdot.org.

about:blank as many of you will just open a blank page. By default Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera are set to open up a webpage on connecting to the internet. Most of the time you won’t be interested in opening that default page. The result is unncessary wastage of bandwidth. This gets severe if you are on a limited download plan with your ISP. By using about:blank as you start page of your browser you’re ensuring that when your browser is opened you do not load any page. The above screen shows you the Options window of Internet Explorer, which…

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The best browser IMO has officially released 9.1 version. The file has already been sitting on their FTP servers for the past few days. The main update since version 9.0 is the implementation of Fraud Protection, including technology from GeoTrust, the leading digital certificate provider, and PhishTank, a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Opera also announced that the Wii version of the browser will be available on December 22. – Opera 9.10 Setup [~4.9MB] – Download page – Detailed Changelog for those interested.