Opera was the first browser to include a search bar in its browser as well as the first to have a deal with Google Opera Watch reports that Opera has renewed its search deal with Google. Opera will get a share of the advertising revenue from Google search results when a user searches within Opera using the search box or via the address bar. This is indeed good for Opera, because ever since they turned free this will be a good source of revenue. I’ve been using Opera for a good number of years now (right when we had the…

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Opera has launched Opera Mini which is a browser for your mobile phone. Opera has always been one of my favorite web browsers because of it is fast, light on resources and does the job well. I don’t surf the internet on my mobile phone, but for users who do Opera Mini is indeed a blessing. The new features in Opera Mini include: Easy photo sharing RSS Feed Reader Secure banking/shopping Content folding Faster surfing If you are designing your website you don’t have to worry much for users using Opera Mini as long as your site is designed according…

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Opera has released the latest weekly update to their popular browser. There are two main changes this time are an update to the Wand format and fixes to the fraud protection. Wand is Opera’s method of storing passwords. The passwords are stored in a wand.dat file. This update changes the format, so if you are upgrading remember to keep a backup. The other update is improvement in the fraud protection to prevent RCSR. Earlier this week it was reported that IE and Firefox are vulnerable to this. Opera is not vulnerable, but with this update the protection has been improved…

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This doesn’t seem to be out on the Opera site right now, but the download available on Softpedia. I’ve downloaded the same. The version is indeed 9.10.8649. The download on their site is still 9.02. This release includes fraud checking of websites. Click on the small question mark in the address bar to immediately verify if the site is blacklisted. You can wait for the official release or just download it from the link below. Direct download: Non-Java Version for Windows Update: The same has appeared on Fileforum with RC1 and beta tag. The Opera blog though doesn’t have anything…

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How to Create performed an extensive browser speed test. Several browsers were tested across MacOS, Windows and Linux to reveal astonishing results (?) The browsers were tested based on several parameters including Cold Start, Warm Start, CSS Rendering, Table Rendering, Script Speed, loading Images and loading pages from History. I can’t comment on the results observed on MacOS and Linux because I haven’t used the first at all and hardly used the second. But, on the windows the results were as I expected. Opera clearly won the speed loading tests in all the categories. Opera’s claim to be the faster…

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