Take a look at this commercial from Indosat featuring Opera Mini!
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The ulimate BlackBerry Cool contest
30 Jun 2009 | 4:22 amWin a 7-day tripTo Scandinavia this summer! BlackBerry Cool is running an Opera Mini contest where all you have to do is download Opera Mini on your BlackBerry (if you haven’t done it already). :up: They're giving away a ton of prizes including: BodyGuardz scratch protectors for the Curve 900 and Bold. A wide variety of chargers. Otterbox cases for the Bold and 8900. Software gift cards of up to $50. To win one of our Tier 1 prizes, just leave a comment in this post or the contest page. Tell them what you like and dislike about Opera Mini. One lucky reader from the BlackBerry Cool community… -
Social media survey
23 Jun 2009 | 1:34 pmOpera has conducted an internal survey of its employees worldwide to see how active and present they were in various social media. Basically, we talk the talk, but do we also walk the walk? We wanted to dig deeper to see what sites and tools which were used. Without further ado, here are the results of our social media survey. Top social media sites YouTube73.0% Wikipedia72.7% Facebook68.9% LinkedIn59.9% MyOpera49.7% RSS Feeds31.1% Twitter30.8% Digg30.5% Flickr30.4% Last.fm20.8% Other18.7% Google Video12.1% Nasza-klasa.pl11.4% Delicious8.3% MySpace7.3% Orkut5.5% Veoh3.1% MSN Space3.1%… -
Opera Unite's Future
16 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amFree Download Today is the release of the technology of tomorrow. The browser as we know it is about to change. Opera Unite changes the way we interact online. When we change from a one way communication to direct communication between users we allow you to run services with simple clicks without going middlemen. Direct interaction - on your terms! Just imagine the future possibilities of Opera Unite: Running a file sharing service allowing you direct control over your files at home, at work or any other place you might be. Accessibility is true usability, and nothing is as usable as Opera… -
Unite Dreams: Access files
16 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amSeries of interviews focusing on a dream or scenario of Opera Unite. Try Opera Unite yourself: http://unite.opera.com/ ...
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Opera Press Room
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Serving up more Opera Mini in Europe: Opera opens new data center in Poland
30 Jun 2009 | 2:00 amOpera has signed an agreement with TeliaSonera International Carrier to provide Opera with colocation in establishing a new data center in Poland. As Opera's fourth data center worldwide, the facility will operate as the server hub for Opera Mini, allowing the mobile browser to expand its network in Europe. By relieving other servers of the processing responsibilities, Opera's Poland-based servers will enable significantly faster page downloads for users. -
Mobile search grows rapidly worldwide
25 Jun 2009 | 2:00 amGoogle is the preferred search engine according to the newest State of the Mobile Web report by Opera. The report provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web. The full report is available from http://www.opera.com/smw/ (English only). In addition to the top global trends and country snapshots, the report highlights trends in Southeast Asia and this month includes a special spotlight on search engine usage on the mobile Web. -
Opera Unite reinvents the Web
16 Jun 2009 | 2:00 amOpera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers. -
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta is ready to rev up your phone
8 Jun 2009 | 2:00 amOpera Mobile 9.7 beta is now available to accelerate the mobile browsing experience for Windows Mobile-based phones. Speed is at the heart of this beta release due to the addition of Opera’s recently launched technology for faster surfing, Opera Turbo. Opera has also included its newly upgraded browser engine, called Opera Presto 2.2, for faster page loads and better overall performance. With the added bonus of Opera Widgets, Opera Mobile 9.7 gets you the Web content you want in fewer clicks and less time. -
Opera celebrates Indonesia's digital age at Festival Komputer
4 Jun 2009 | 3:00 amDuring Indonesia’s annual celebration of digital communication in Jakarta from June 10 - 14, 2009, Opera Software will host an exhibit and demo some of the most popular devices running the Opera browser. Indonesia has long been a focal point for Opera, as mobile Web usage has increased dramatically in this region year-on-year. Currently, Indonesia remains a steady second in terms of Opera Mini usage worldwide.
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Opera Watch
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Opera’s newest invention is coming on June 16th
11 Jun 2009 | 10:17 amOpera is planning on releasing a new, hmm… how should I put it, well let’s just say that Opera is about to announce something really cool on June 16th. The company is framing this new ‘thing’ as ‘Reinventing the Web.’ I’m excited about it; it definitely has the potential to be a game changer (for some). Opera’s hint: 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 … www.opera.com/freedom -
How to open multiple web pages from Opera Speed Dial?
8 May 2009 | 2:58 amThere are several ways to open multiple web pages. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, navigating to folder from bookmarks menu and clicking Open All Folder Items. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, giving nickname to folder and entering nickname in address field or setting nickname as home page in Tools > Preferences… > General > Home page. Opening web pages, saving them as session File > Sessions > Save This Session… and opening it File > Sessions. The advantage of sessions over bookmarks is it can store several settings (zoom, fit to width, images, etc.) per… -
Opera’s homepage cracks me up
28 Apr 2009 | 7:50 amI had a nice laugh this morning when I popped open www.opera.com — A 90’s website to celebrate the 15 year anniversary of the Opera desktop browser. Nice. A screenshot of www.opera.com on April 28th, 2009 -
How to change the height of various toolbars in an Opera skin?
6 Apr 2009 | 3:59 amThe height of toolbars in current default skin is large compared to previous default skin and it can be reduced to increase browsing space. Create a backup of your current skin# or the skin you want to change the height of toolbars. Extract skin.ini from zipped skin file. Reduce the values of Padding Top and Padding Bottom under the sections mentioned in the following table. You can also specify negative values. Toolbar Section Menu bar [Menu Button Skin] Main bar [Mainbar Skin] Personal bar [Personalbar Skin] Tab bar [Pagebar Button Skin] Address bar [Addressbar Skin] Navigation bar… -
Opera is going to relaunch affiliate program
1 Apr 2009 | 5:05 amIf you remember, an affiliate program was launched by Opera Software along with Opera 8 release on April 19, 2005 to give registration key upon 250 unique referrals. Opera Software is going to relaunch it soon to promote Opera. Stay tuned for more information. Affiliate program link in My account page Affiliate program page Top affiliates page You have to use the new affiliate link as shown below (replace operawatch with your My Opera username). http://my.opera.com/community/download.pl?ref=operawatch&p=opera_desktop Also, affiliate counter will be reset to make sure everyone starts off…
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Opera Mini Blog
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Server Upgrade to 4.11.458
1 Jul 2009 | 5:50 amThe global Mini cluster was upgraded by the server team Monday evening CET. The main improvements include: enhanced site compatibility a fix for pages with internal links improved synchronization binary files are always offered for downloadSince JavaScript site patches are used to improve site compatibility, an enhancement allowing developers to bypass those patches has been included. The setting is available when entering the "config:" URL, but should always be enabled for normal usage.All users automatically benefit from the upgrade (no manual change is needed, though it is… -
Mobile View & Feeds
10 Jun 2009 | 5:15 amOur users reported a problem where after visiting feeds, sites were shown in Desktop mode, regardless of the setting before going to the feeds. This morning we pushed a minor server upgrade (new version is 4.10.422) that takes care of the issue. -
Server Upgrade to 4.10.404
8 Jun 2009 | 6:45 amThe Mini server team released a new version of the Opera Mini servertoday. The highlights of this release include: fixes for font sizes on some sites optimization of bitmap fonts on low-memory phones faster JavaScript dialogs some download fixes fixes for lots of "clicking just reloads" problems improved the layout of feeds in mobile view site-specific fixesEven though we put lot of energy in making sites work better, thereremain some not yet solved bugs, most notably in the Desktop versionof Facebook. We're working on them, but had to postpone them to avoiddelaying this release.As… -
Minor Server Upgrade
28 May 2009 | 8:44 amYesterday afternoon, a minor upgrade of the servers was made to fix an issue reported by our users (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=276540). The new version is 4.9.516. -
Opera Mini Server updates
28 May 2009 | 8:38 amDuring a team building session in Poland last week the Mini server team decided to put more ressources in telling the community about server upgrades and relevant changes. The main channel for this information will be this (the Opera Mini) blog.
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Opera Community News
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Member of the Week
3 Jul 2009 | 7:06 amFor the first time on My Opera we put this week's spotlight on an active member from Serbia! ... -
Techy money saving
30 Jun 2009 | 8:26 amWith the re-emergence of words such as ârecessionâ and âcredit crunchâ in our everyday vocabularies, you may find yourself racking your brain for new ways to cut back and save more. ... -
Blog this
29 Jun 2009 | 3:54 amNo, you don't have to blog this, but find out how to easily blog a cool photo you've discovered and show off your My Opera favorites! :cool: ... -
Member of the Week
26 Jun 2009 | 2:15 amThis week we meet a member from the ... Catty Planet? :cat: ... -
Member of the Week
19 Jun 2009 | 6:22 amThe time has come to celebrate one of our most active community members. :hat: ...
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Opera FAQ's, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks
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Use user style sheet to modify the look of a website in Opera
A user style sheet is a text file with CSS declarations. It allows you to have control over the look and feel of website. It can be used to hide annoying things like ads, change fonts and colors, etc. !important declaration should be added to a rule to take precedence over author style sheet. User style sheets can be applied to all sites Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Content > Style Options... > My style sheet (restart required to apply style sheet) or per-site basis Right click on a site > Edit Site Preferences... > Display > My style sheet (reload required to… -
Thank you Léazz
Today, I received drawstring pouch with painting from Léazz for winning in guess the name of these plants... game. Thank you Léazz for prize. Drawstring pouch with painting More pictures... -
How to view Indian language Unicode characters properly with Opera in Windows?
To view Indian language web pages and Opera menus properly, Unicode support has to be enabled in Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems. In Windows XP, Start > Control Panel > (Date, Time, Language and Regional Options) > Regional and Language Options > Language > [Enable] Install files for complex script and right-to-left-languages (including Thai) > OK Enable 'Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)' in Windows XP In Windows 2000, Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options > General > Language settings… -
Opera Bookmarks Description Remover
Huge bookmarks file will affect the performance of Opera. Opera Bookmarks Description Remover was created using AutoHotkey to reduce bookmarks file size by removing descriptions. Download (size < 210 KB), unzip and run OBDR.exe. Backup of original bookmarks file will be created inside bookmarks directory with bak extension. Silent mode will remove all bookmarks description without any prompt. Opera Bookmarks Description Remover -
How to open multiple web pages from Opera Speed Dial?
There are several ways to open multiple web pages in Opera. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, navigating to folder from bookmarks menu and clicking Open All Folder Items. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, giving nickname to folder and entering nickname in address field or setting nickname as home page in Tools → Preferences... → General → Home page. Opening web pages, saving them as session File → Sessions → Save This Session... and opening it File → Sessions. The advantage of sessions over bookmarks is it can store several settings (zoom, fit to width, images, etc.) per tab.
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Opera Labs Latest News
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Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time
16 Jun 2009 | 1:00 amThis article explains what is Opera Unite, discusses “the Internet’s unfulfilled promise” and explains how it led to us creating Opera Unite, and shares some inspirational ideas to illustrate what you can do with it. -
Introducing Opera Face Gestures
1 Apr 2009 | 1:00 amToday we introduce Face Gestures, a revolutionary technology designed to make interacting with your browser easier and simpler on computers with cameras. Face Gestures lets you perform frequent browsing operations with natural and easy to make face gestures. -
Find me! Geolocation-enabled Opera build
26 Mar 2009 | 1:00 amAnother great Opera technology release is with us — we are delighted to release the first build of Opera with Geolocation API support — you can use this to expose the browser's geographical position, and make use of it in your applications. -
Opera Turbo
13 Mar 2009 | 1:00 amWe are launching our time-limited test phase for Opera Turbo, a server-side optimization and compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over slow connections by compressing network traffic. -
Introducing Opera Fingertouch
5 Mar 2009 | 12:00 amToday we introduce Fingertouch, a technology designed to make interacting with the Web easier and simpler on touchscreen devices. Opera Fingertouch provides visual feedback when you hit a Web link, and assists you when you come across multiple links or other selectable elements in close proximity to one another.
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My Opera News
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Opera Unite release day
23 Jun 2009 | 2:34 amTuesday 16th of June was a special day for My Opera too.Opera Unite was released at 09:00 CEST, and just after that, the amount of traffic and visitors to My Opera increased quickly, to reach the highest peak around 18:00 UTC.This was also the highest peak ever reached for My Opera. On that day, we finally broke the 2 million page views per day, that sums up to more than 100M hits and 600,000 unique visitors just that day.We're very happy about this. Yes, the site was not completely usable, and sometimes it was serving pages very slowly, but still we managed to keep it running. We hacked… -
New backend features in Banana
2 Jun 2009 | 9:13 amThe Banana release has been out for 2 weeks now. It seems to have been one of the happiest upgrades that we've ever had in a while. Not that it's without bugs, of course, but... EspenAO already told you about some of the changes that went into Banana. We'd like to tell you about some other stuff, more from the "engine-room". Captcha We have a brand new captcha module, based on ReCaptcha. This took a while to make, because we built a generic Captcha module, that will allow us to use any captcha system out there if we need to switch. We find ReCaptcha very good so far. Some people of… -
Markup changes
18 May 2009 | 8:34 amLater this week we are planning to release a new batch of updates for My Opera. The updates contains some small HTML changes that might affect you if you have written your own custom CSS.1. Changes have been made to the "view photo" page.New buttons and image navigation have been added inside the #frame4 div. Default css for this is included for all designs. The star ratings div have also been moved below the photo.HTML preview: <p id="imgbtn"> <a href="#"><span>Share</span></a> <a href="#"><span>Zoom</span></a> </p>… -
Yahoo! users once again receive mail from us
7 May 2009 | 5:12 amLately we have been receiving many support tickets regarding e-mails from My Opera not being received. These tickets have included answers to support requests, notifications of private messages and especially activation of new My Opera accounts. After being in conversation with Yahoo!, we have solved the problem, and there should not be any more problems regarding this. If you are experiencing this kind of problem at other mail providers, please let us know using the appropriate contact form. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused, but we are pleased that the problem finally… -
Pre-Easter bug fixes
7 Apr 2009 | 6:30 amWe just sent out a couple of patches that should fix 2 of the most annoying (small?) Apricot bugs. Duplicated links in the "Links" section of your account. Broken anonymous comments in your blog. About the first one, users with the Links section enabled in their sidebar, were seeing their links duplicated when going to their "Links" page (<username>/links/). This was related to the Sidebar module caching. Now this should be fixed. Some users also reported problems when anonymous people wanted to comment on their blogs. This, together with other minor assorted bugs,…
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Planet Opera
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FavBrowser.com: June, 2009 - IE Falls Below 60%, Firefox Surpasses 30% Market Share, Opera, Chrome, Safari
3 Jul 2009 | 11:53 amYet again, it’s time to check how your favorite web browser market share changed in a month. For the very first time, Internet Explorer has fallen below 60% market share mark, from 62.09% to 59.49% Good news for Firefox fans as well, it has finally surpassed 30% market share mark, went up from 28.75% to 30.33% Nearing its final, version 10 release, Opera web browser also increased its market share by 0.13, from 3.23% to 3.36% With the launch of Safari 4 final, this web browser market share went up by 0.28 points, from 2.65% to 2.93% Google Chrome continues its healthy growth, up by 0.4,… -
Opera Community News:
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Opera Desktop Team:
3 Jul 2009 | 6:54 amYet another new pretty face on the blog! :D Iâm a Mac product tester who have been working at Opera for 8 months. You may have seen me on our excellent forums already. ;)Things are settling down as we are now approaching the final release. Here we have got a new development snapshot for you to play around with while its too hot to be outside.In this build, automated crash logging makes its first appearance on the Mac! :yes: Yey! (Will make my job a lot easier.) When Opera crashes, Developer Tools Access will pop-up asking you for an administrative password. It looks a bit dodgy… -
Slashdot: Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
2 Jul 2009 | 12:03 pmsnydeq writes "Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies. 'After an inordinate amount of discussions on the situation, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship,' HTML 5 editor Ian Hickson wrote to the whatwg mailing list. Apple, for its part, won't support Ogg Theora in QuickTime,… -
Opera Developer Network:
2 Jul 2009 | 11:37 amWith great pleasure I can announce that we have released the Scope protocol specification, which is used in Opera Dragonfly and some of our internal QA tools. Currently Opera Dragonfly uses the STP/0 version, but for future version of Opera we will switch to the STP/1 version, which all new clients are recommended to use. One of the reasons to release this documentation is that we hope that other browsers and users agents will be interested in adopting Scope in their products. If this is the case, we’d like to standardise the specification through a standards body, so that there will be one…
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Opera Browser Wiki - RecentChanges
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PrzyciskiUzytkownika
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AllActions
20 May 2009 | 7:24 amOn Wed, 20 May 2009 at 14:24 GMT, AllActions was edited by TaxAudit:
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Andrew Gregory's Web Pages
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PIC GPS/NTP Server
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Updated Sudoku (v1.31)
14 Jun 2009 | 9:05 pmImproved hint and solver user interface. Added 'C' fast digit which toggles all pencilmarks on/off. -
Sudoku Development Status Update
10 Jan 2009 | 1:30 amI can now compile Sudoku, and have restored some of the lost features. The way is now open for a couple of new features... -
Opera User Javascript
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Sudoku Development Status Update
11 Dec 2008 | 5:15 amDue to various circumstances, development of Sudoku has been put back and slowed significantly. It has not stopped, and should be updated in the first half of next year.
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miscoded
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'ESPN FLASH detection system' meets Flash 0
Even in the classy company of bad version detection scripts we've met since we started testing Opera 10, this Flash detection approach stands out. That script goes to great effort to require an update every.single.time Adobe releases another Flash version.It starts with a bold claim to be the ESPN "Flash detection system", no less:// Author: Danny Mavromatis // Version: 2.07.0 // Created: 10/29/2001 // Updated: 3/6/2006 // ESPN.com FLASH detection system var f2 = false; var f3 = false; var f4 = false; var f5 = false; var f6 = false; var f7 = false; var f8 = false; var f9 =… -
the day supporting document.onload became a bug
Like many things on the web, the load event seems simple. It originates from the web's stone age - supported by Netscape 2 in 1996 and fired billions and billions of times since. It's probably the most widely used event for web scripting. Can it have secrets or quirks after so many years? You might think you could write a one-sentence spec for it, along the lines of "when the document is done loading, dispatch a load event to any listeners created from BODY onload attributes, window.onload property or addEventListener('load') calls" - and implement it… -
Site patching article on the core concerns blog
If you follow this blog, little in my new article on the Core Concerns blog will be news to you. Nevertheless you might find it interesting. Have a look. -
websites playing timing roulette
For a couple of days in November, the New York Times looked serenely white in Opera:You might think that nothing newsworthy was happening on the planet. Unfortunately it was not the start of a new and peaceful world order, it was merely their JavaScript playing timing roulette:if (typeof callback == 'function') { if (document.addEventListener) { window.setTimeout(function(){ document.write('<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">(' + callback.toString() + ')();<\/script>'); }, 0) }What is that doing? This code says… -
X-Talisman-Compatible: messup
Yikes.I'm seeing X-UA-Compatible abuse everywhere these days. It seems most of the big sites I look at have decided not to give the IE8 team half a chance to iron out their bugs, they've all simply decided to close their eyes and slap on a "behave like IE7" instruction instead. Guess if this is going to cause compat problems down the road when all non-IE browsers are forced to look at the META tags and figure out if they should be bug-compatible with IE7, 8 or 9 for any given site.. :-(Here's a funny offender: adobe.com insists that if I'm going to show their…
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A Blog From Behind the Trenches
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A better benchmark: Benchmarking Browsers with Real Websites
We are all used to all the artificial JavaScript benchmarks out there by now. What they have in common is that they all test small parts of JavaScript, and none of them are testing real-life performance. -
Opera Unite powered BitTorrent tracker
It looks like someone has started work on a BitTorrent tracker running as a Unite service. The creator now needs help to find bugs, which is why he made a public announcement about it.You can find the tracker's homepage at Google Code.I'm pretty amazed by this service, and I really can't wait to see what kind of Unite services other people can come up with.Not knowing much about the specifics of this service, I wonder if it would be possible to create a network of "decentralized" BitTorrent trackers for redundancy purposes. Since a Unite service is easy to set up,… -
What is a browser? Russian edition
You may have seen the video where Google asks more than 50 people in Times Square, New York, what a browser is. Most of them basically think a browser is a search engine!It looks like the various browser vendors have a lot of work to do in order to create awareness around browsers!Now someone has tried a similar poll in Russia. -
JavaScript performance? What about layout performance?
Performance benchmarks are all the rage these days, but everyone seems to be focusing narrowly on artificial benchmarks that basically tell you how certain browsers perform at the particular JavaScript functions chosen for those particular benchmarks.It's surprising that there is little or no focus on other, perhaps more relevant performance aspects of modern pages. For example, how do browsers perform when it comes to dynamically changing the style of a page (CSS)? -
Official Opera Unite blog
The Opera Unite team now has an official blog. If you don't want to miss out on Unite related information, head over there and subscribe.
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Is this thing on?
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
This was a comment on a New Scientist piece, Linking genes to geography could revive race myth.The concept of human races that most of us have grown up with has been shown to be at best simplified or misleading and at worst completely false. That hasn't and won't make racism go away. Furthermore this racial theory we have inherited is founded on Victorian science, and an enlightened project to classify and make sense of the world as they knew it then. The racial theory we know is far better founded than the theories at their time, but that wasn't good enough.Combined with the… -
Opera Unite: Web Untied
The most revolutionary new feature in Opera 10 is also among the oldest. In this case, while the teaser promising a reinvented Web may have been over the top, the hype is factual. Opera Unite is a revolution, among other wheels in motion.My favourite headline has been El Reg's Opera to take web back to the old days.For decades Web intellectuals have railed against the client-server model, argued that it is too stale and authoritarian, had the server point of failure and couldn't scale with the exponentially growing Web. Power to the distributed systems. Then Google came along and… -
The 20th century just died after prolonged illness
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CSS today, yesterday, and tomorrow
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155102: Losing data with Firefox 3 and Opera 10 Alpha
It doesn't really matter much these days which browser you are using. On the whole I find Opera less annoying to use than Firefox, and Opera additionally has some nice perks like better keyboard access and Opera Link. Once in a while there are things that really makes a difference. On top of my list is that a browser should never lose my data. On the whole Opera is pretty good in this regard, but it has a huge gaping hole in its armour. If you type in text and the window is closed, you can restore the window but the text is lost. This is almost adding insult to injury, as you can see the…
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Tweak
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More Single-key Shortcuts
Now that Opera 9.5+ ships with a set of keyboard shortcuts where cat-owners are protected from accidental exposure to Opera's features by disabling the single-key shortcuts by default, I wanted to expand the shortcuts that can be enabled with the checkbox under 'Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts'. After all, there is no need to be careful anymore with single-key shortcuts if only the happy few will enable them!Here's the current list:1Switch to previous tab2Switch to next tab3Focus next frameShift+3Focus previous frame4Minimize page5Maximize page |… -
A Compact Setup
I've been playing around with a new setup, that should be usable, useful, but also 'small' in a visual sense. So without a menu bar! Almost all Opera functions will be easily accesible. But not necessarily all from the main toolbars, which was what the ribbonesque Twelve setup tried to do. For now I've named it Compact, but suggestions are welcome for something more memorable. (No, not Chrome. Scandium maybe? Zircon?)So starting with the Twelve setup, I removed lots of items (though many are still available from the Appearance dialog), moved the navigation controls back to… -
Lightning at sunset
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Updates
[edit 2008-06-15]Updates updated: made the setups offered here compatible with 9.5 Final. Same URLs, a few new versions.I'm going from light blogging to no blogging apparently... a bad trend. I'm a little bit active on Twitter now, but not in a way that compares to my past blogging here. When 9.5 Final and Firefox 3 get released, I'll probably make an update for the Top 150 Extensions list.But my customized setups can already use some updates, the 9.2 versions will have some broken functionality when used with Kestrel builds. So here are provisional 9.5-compatible setups,… -
Meme: In One Word Only
Tim has tagged me in an internet game of answers, one...word...at...a...time.Where is your mobile phone?pocketDescribe your girlfriend:happyYour hair:goneYour mother:ashesYour father:busyWhat is your favourite gadget?phoneWhat did you dream last night?nothingWhat do you prefer to drink?coffeeDream car?noneWhat room are you currently in?kitchenYour ex?nopeYour biggest fear?fearWhat do you want to be in 10 years?myselfWho did you spend last night with?twitterWhat are you not?talkativeThe last thing you did?eatWhat are you wearing?jeansFavorite book?LoTRThe last thing you ate?mango-pieYour…
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Opera FAQ's, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks
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Use user style sheet to modify the look of a website in Opera
1 Jul 2009 | 8:26 amA user style sheet is a text file with CSS declarations. It allows you to have control over the look and feel of website. It can be used to hide annoying things like ads, change fonts and colors, etc. !important declaration should be added to a rule to take precedence over author style sheet. User style sheets can be applied to all sites Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Content > Style Options... > My style sheet (restart required to apply style sheet) or per-site basis Right click on a site > Edit Site Preferences... > Display > My style sheet (reload required to… -
Thank you Léazz
24 Jun 2009 | 4:11 amToday, I received drawstring pouch with painting from Léazz for winning in guess the name of these plants... game. Thank you Léazz for prize. Drawstring pouch with painting More pictures... -
How to view Indian language Unicode characters properly with Opera in Windows?
21 Jun 2009 | 5:04 amTo view Indian language web pages and Opera menus properly, Unicode support has to be enabled in Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems. In Windows XP, Start > Control Panel > (Date, Time, Language and Regional Options) > Regional and Language Options > Language > [Enable] Install files for complex script and right-to-left-languages (including Thai) > OK Enable 'Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)' in Windows XP In Windows 2000, Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options > General > Language settings for the… -
Opera Bookmarks Description Remover
2 Jun 2009 | 2:00 amHuge bookmarks file will affect the performance of Opera. Opera Bookmarks Description Remover was created using AutoHotkey to reduce bookmarks file size by removing descriptions. Download (size < 210 KB), unzip and run OBDR.exe. Backup of original bookmarks file will be created inside bookmarks directory with bak extension. Silent mode will remove all bookmarks description without any prompt. Opera Bookmarks Description Remover -
How to open multiple web pages from Opera Speed Dial?
7 May 2009 | 5:10 pmThere are several ways to open multiple web pages in Opera. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, navigating to folder from bookmarks menu and clicking Open All Folder Items. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, giving nickname to folder and entering nickname in address field or setting nickname as home page in Tools → Preferences... → General → Home page. Opening web pages, saving them as session File → Sessions → Save This Session... and opening it File → Sessions. The advantage of sessions over bookmarks is it can store several settings (zoom, fit to width, images, etc.) per tab.
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Dev Opera Articles
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Custom web fonts with sIFR
23 Jun 2009 | 8:05 amUsing custom fonts on web pages has long been a major sore point for web designers, but there are solutions available now and more on the horizon, from traditional image replacement techniques and Cufon, to CSS 3 Web Fonts and TypeKit. In this article design guru Jake Smith has a look at what's available, before giving you a tutorial on his current favourite solution - the rather clever Flash-based sIFR. -
Основы Opera Unite для разработчиков
19 Jun 2009 | 11:15 amOpera Unite — это веб-сервер прямо внутри браузера Opera, который позволяет делиться картинками, документами, видео, музыкой, совместными играми и множеством других вещей с друзьями и коллегами. Эта статьи поможет вам начать путь по дороге разработки сервисов для Opera Unite на примере написания сервиса, который будет работать как… -
Setting up custom domains for Opera Unite
19 Jun 2009 | 5:34 amIn this article, Lachlan Hunt explains how to configure your connection setup to allow you to access your Opera Unite services from a custom domain. -
Markuper: The Opera Unite Service template library
16 Jun 2009 | 12:01 amThis article introduces Markuper, a templating library that allows rapid development of Opera Unite Services and binding of data from JavaScript straight into the HTML templates. -
Opera Unite developer's primer
16 Jun 2009 | 12:01 amOpera Unite puts a Web server inside your Opera browser, allowing you to share files and applications with your friends and colleagues directly off your hard drive! This tutorial shows you how to get started on the road to Opera Unite Service development by making a simple Opera Unite blog service. It introduces some of the basic ways of interacting with the web server and how to start creating Opera Unite Services.
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User Centered
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GameInformer/GameStop didn't think the subscription process through very well
30 Jun 2009 | 9:13 pmI wanted to get a "Game Informer" subscription as I previously had one and miss it. Going to the website, I found the subscription link easily enough with a link that takes me to gamestop.com to do the shopping cart stuff. Fair enough. But I don't think these two companies got together and actually walked through this use case, otherwise they would have seen that there is a "shipping charge" and "X business day/transit nonsense that cause me to just abandoned the app in favor of calling them directly. You're treating a subscription like it's a one time purchase. This… -
More band-aids from Apple for the poorly designed iPhone podcast UI
20 Jun 2009 | 9:17 pmAt the sake of making this a site dedicated to Apple's podcast UI management, I'd like to point out yet another change that came about with the 3.0 iPhone software update, but first, see the history of this topic on the site to get up to speed, also, Kenneth Maage's thoughts in the comments here are pretty insightful as well for a "how it should work" argument. The scrubber (left-to-right slider) is very difficult to use with podcasts, and was a poor design decision. ...The fact that Apple added the 30 second rewind and the following scrubber fixes is enough evidence in the… -
Update: Design Decisions: iPhone (focus on podcasts)
18 Jun 2009 | 10:17 amThis image is a follow up to illustrate the text that goes with Design Decisions: iPhone (focus on podcasts)I thought it was illustrative enough to post separately, and not in the original post. It shows using the exact same widget in relatively the same location on the screen for different functions is a unnecessary (but admittedly minor) design decision. It's using the old 2.X iPhone OS, but the same design applies to 3.0 -
iPhone podcast UI is incrementing towards "good"
18 Jun 2009 | 8:55 amAnyone who's been around this site for awhile (all three of you) knows that I have a long standing series of beefs with Apple on how they handle podcasts on the iPod/iPhone. In summation- Apple initially treated the UI for podcasts very much like that for music/songs and have subsequently updated with a series of patches and band-aids to compensate that slowly increment towards a passable podcast UI. Apple's new iPhone software includes another one of these fixes that is likely spurned on by the same issues I brought up in my previous post on this topic- the seek and slider functions are… -
Opera Unite is how I envision the web.
16 Jun 2009 | 5:21 amOpera Unite is exactly how I envision my web experience working. Currently, I have a complicated web hosting/FTP setup that is cumbersome and time consuming. With Opera Unite, it's drop dead simple to share photos with my family. I envision a a situation where I just turn on my digital camera, an "eye-fi" like wireless memory card + service downloads my pictures to a folder on my computer, and Opera Unite makes it available to all! User Centered, super simple...all I had to do was push a button on my camera. My only beef would be that it's too simple- I'd like some time to evaluate…
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Library Blog Buzz
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Yahoo Is Planning Total Brand Revamp To Offset Microsoft's Bing Success
2 Jul 2009 | 11:03 amChief Marketing Officers are probably quite happy these days because they don’t have to justify the benefits of having a Marketing & Communication Department considering the success of the new marketing campaign around Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. As we all know Bing doesn’t offer anything new in the search engine arena but due to successful brand and marketing campaign ( $100 million dollars will be invested to persuade users to use Bing) it is gaining market share. In order to offset Bing's success, Yahoo is planning its own major brand makeover discovered WebProNews blog… -
71.4 % Of Public Libraries Are The Only Provider Of Free Internet In Their Communities
1 Jul 2009 | 1:08 pmA recent study " “U.S. Public Libraries and E-Government Services” ( part of the Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study) revealed that public libraries are the only organizations in the community that can help citizens to access e-government services. In addition the e-government study found out that * Public libraries offer an average of 11 public access computers per building* Nearly all public libraries (98.7 percent) off er public access to the Internet* Many public libraries (76.4 percent) off er wireless (Wi-fi ) access * Public libraries off er a number of… -
Teens No Different Than Adults, According To A Study By The Nielsen Company
29 Jun 2009 | 12:31 pmIsn’t this a shock? Teens are not abandoning TV for the Internet and their iPhones. In fact, they watch 6% more TV ( in the past five years at least) and spend less time browsing the Internet than adults. These are the findings of the latest research " How Teens Use Media" conducted by The Nielsen Company and presented during the annual What Teens Want conference in New York* Teens spend 11 hours and 32 minutes per month online—far below the average of 29 hours and 15 minutes for adults * Teens spend 35% less time watching online video than adults 25–34* Teens play video… -
Ask.com Puts Together 300 Million Question And Answers Database
25 Jun 2009 | 1:22 pmIt seems that better answers and quick decisions is what search engines want to give to customers today. So it should not come as a surprise to you that Ask.com is now focusing on Answers. Ask.com and Ask Jeeves launch database of 300 million answers and questions... It should be noted that this “answer farm” was originally launched last year but that this year’s versions has tripled the number of Q and A’s.If you want to try the 300 million Q&A database go to “Lots of Answers” on Ask.com or AskJeeves.co.uk home pages. Librarians have to get answers to a lot of basic questions… -
ALA TechSource Builds New Website With Drupal
23 Jun 2009 | 1:04 pmIn the past two and a half years I was able to tweak the incoming and outgoing email server settings for my RSS reader ( Newsgator) so I can get all my feeds pushed for free through my email account on my wireless phone but for some reason they are not coming anymore. With so many scheduled things to do, I don’t know how soon I will be able to spend a few hours to figure what is wrong but before that happens lets look at the ALA TechSource's new website build with Drupal. The new site is an electronic archive for Library Technology Reports (LTR) and Smart Libraries Newsletter (SLN).Benefits…
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miscoded
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'ESPN FLASH detection system' meets Flash 0
29 Jun 2009 | 9:16 amEven in the classy company of bad version detection scripts we've met since we started testing Opera 10, this Flash detection approach stands out. That script goes to great effort to require an update every.single.time Adobe releases another Flash version.It starts with a bold claim to be the ESPN "Flash detection system", no less:// Author: Danny Mavromatis // Version: 2.07.0 // Created: 10/29/2001 // Updated: 3/6/2006 // ESPN.com FLASH detection system var f2 = false; var f3 = false; var f4 = false; var f5 = false; var f6 = false; var f7 = false; var f8 = false; var f9 = false;… -
the day supporting document.onload became a bug
20 May 2009 | 7:34 amLike many things on the web, the load event seems simple. It originates from the web's stone age - supported by Netscape 2 in 1996 and fired billions and billions of times since. It's probably the most widely used event for web scripting. Can it have secrets or quirks after so many years? You might think you could write a one-sentence spec for it, along the lines of "when the document is done loading, dispatch a load event to any listeners created from BODY onload attributes, window.onload property or addEventListener('load') calls" - and implement it interoperably in a few hours on… -
Site patching article on the core concerns blog
7 Apr 2009 | 4:04 pmIf you follow this blog, little in my new article on the Core Concerns blog will be news to you. Nevertheless you might find it interesting. Have a look. -
websites playing timing roulette
6 Mar 2009 | 4:01 pmFor a couple of days in November, the New York Times looked serenely white in Opera:You might think that nothing newsworthy was happening on the planet. Unfortunately it was not the start of a new and peaceful world order, it was merely their JavaScript playing timing roulette:if (typeof callback == 'function') { if (document.addEventListener) { window.setTimeout(function(){ document.write('<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">(' + callback.toString() + ')();<\/script>'); }, 0) }What is that doing? This code says "have a 0 millisecond break, then add this SCRIPT tag… -
X-Talisman-Compatible: messup
21 Feb 2009 | 4:54 pmYikes.I'm seeing X-UA-Compatible abuse everywhere these days. It seems most of the big sites I look at have decided not to give the IE8 team half a chance to iron out their bugs, they've all simply decided to close their eyes and slap on a "behave like IE7" instruction instead. Guess if this is going to cause compat problems down the road when all non-IE browsers are forced to look at the META tags and figure out if they should be bug-compatible with IE7, 8 or 9 for any given site.. :-(Here's a funny offender: adobe.com insists that if I'm going to show their…
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A Blog From Behind the Trenches
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A better benchmark: Benchmarking Browsers with Real Websites
3 Jul 2009 | 4:18 amWe are all used to all the artificial JavaScript benchmarks out there by now. What they have in common is that they all test small parts of JavaScript, and none of them are testing real-life performance. ... -
Opera Unite powered BitTorrent tracker
26 Jun 2009 | 3:47 amIt looks like someone has started work on a BitTorrent tracker running as a Unite service. The creator now needs help to find bugs, which is why he made a public announcement about it.You can find the tracker's homepage at Google Code.I'm pretty amazed by this service, and I really can't wait to see what kind of Unite services other people can come up with.Not knowing much about the specifics of this service, I wonder if it would be possible to create a network of "decentralized" BitTorrent trackers for redundancy purposes. Since a Unite service is easy to set up, just about anyone… -
What is a browser? Russian edition
25 Jun 2009 | 6:56 amYou may have seen the video where Google asks more than 50 people in Times Square, New York, what a browser is. Most of them basically think a browser is a search engine!It looks like the various browser vendors have a lot of work to do in order to create awareness around browsers!Now someone has tried a similar poll in Russia. ... -
JavaScript performance? What about layout performance?
24 Jun 2009 | 8:46 amPerformance benchmarks are all the rage these days, but everyone seems to be focusing narrowly on artificial benchmarks that basically tell you how certain browsers perform at the particular JavaScript functions chosen for those particular benchmarks.It's surprising that there is little or no focus on other, perhaps more relevant performance aspects of modern pages. For example, how do browsers perform when it comes to dynamically changing the style of a page (CSS)? ... -
Official Opera Unite blog
22 Jun 2009 | 9:28 amThe Opera Unite team now has an official blog. If you don't want to miss out on Unite related information, head over there and subscribe.
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OPERA BROWSER NEWS - Google News
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Firefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorilla - ZDNet
Gizmo NewsFirefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorillaZDNetSecurity concerns keep me away from Safari—unless on an iPhone—and Opera hasn't won me over. Opera's browser is fine, but I see no need to be in a club that Firefox 3.5 Pushes Mozilla Back Among the Top of the Browser HeapeWeekFirefox 3.5: Excellent for fans, but competition getting tougherCNET NewsFirefox 3.5 Downloaded 5 Million Times In 24 Hours!G4 TVArs Technica -Examiner.com -Computerworld -eWeekall 479 news articles » -
Inside 'Unite': Opera's browser-server - CNET News
Techtree.comInside 'Unite': Opera's browser-serverCNET NewsOn Tuesday, Opera Software introduced a technical preview of Opera Unite, a component of its Opera 10 browser. Opera Unite Puts File Sharing in the BrowserPC MagazineOpera Browser Becomes File Sharing PlatformInformationWeekOpera 'reinvents the Web'; Will anyone notice?ZDNetUSA Today -The Associated Press -Techtree.comall 371 news articles » -
Opera lashes out over Microsoft's browser removal - CNET News
PC WorldOpera lashes out over Microsoft's browser removalCNET NewsLast quarter, revenues from Opera's desktop browser increased more than 100%. Does that sound like a company in trouble? by gggg sssss June 11, Opera's Bruising Browser WarForbesMicrosoft Windows 7 E Not Enough, Opera SayseWeekEurope says browser-less Windows 7 not enoughTechSpotMotley Fool -The Associated Press -ZDNetall 1,314 news articles » -
Opera 10 Beta Continues Browser's Innovation Trend - eWeek
Techtree.comOpera 10 Beta Continues Browser's Innovation TrendeWeekStandards support has always been strong in the Opera browser, and the beta of Opera 10 continues this tradition with a perfect score in the Acid3 test. Opera Drops Opera Mobile 9.7 BetaPC MagazineOpera Updates Mobile BrowserInformationWeekOpera Mobile 9.7 beta: Not what we expectedCNET NewsRegister -ZDNet -eWeekall 89 news articles » -
Firefox in the Henhouse: New Browser Outstrips Microsoft - Minyanville.com
PC MagazineFirefox in the Henhouse: New Browser Outstrips MicrosoftMinyanville.comApple's (AAPL) Safari hadn't yet arrived, and Opera's browser was, well, about as popular as it is today. Internet Explorer was clearly the reigning Week in review: A speedier new FirefoxCNET NewsBig browser comparison test: Internet Explorer vs. Firefox, Opera PC Games HardwareBrowser battle royale: Which should you use?Christian Science MonitorNeowin -CBS News -CNET Newsall 23 news articles »
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Desktop Team
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More crash logging and settings for Unite bandwidth throttling
Yet another new pretty face on the blog! :D Iâm a Mac product tester who have been working at Opera for 8 months. You may have seen me on our excellent forums already. ;)Things are settling down as we are now approaching the final release. Here we have got a new development snapshot for you to play around with while its too hot to be outside.In this build, automated crash logging makes its first appearance on the Mac! :yes: Yey! (Will make my job a lot easier.) When Opera crashes, Developer Tools Access will pop-up asking you for an administrative password. It looks a bit dodgy… -
Link fixes and Unite search engine blocking
A new build is ready.Search engine synchronization should be working again now, but those who are upgrading from certain previous Opera 10 builds (including the Unite labs build) may have problems with some search engines not being synchronized. If this happens, try to set opera:config#OperaSync|SyncClientStateSearches to 0 (no restart required).Note: All Solaris builds and some FreeBSD builds are missing. The Windows MSI package is English-only.HighlightsSearch engine synchronization should now be working againAdded "robots.txt" to prevent search engines from indexing Unite… -
Second build of the week
We decided to release another build this week to let you have something to play with over the weekend. Since the previous build, there has been a bit of UI work going on, and some fixes to UPnP (Opera Unite).We have also enabled some experimental UPnP code, so please report any unexpected network related issues that you come across. There may be more crashes than usual when using Unite with UPnP enabled, but any crashes can simply be reported through the new crash dialog.In addition to that, we have the first 64-bit Qt4 builds for Linux.As a final note, the native skin is still not finished,… -
Approaching the final Opera 10.0 release
We are quickly approaching the final release of Opera 10.0, so we have been working on fixing bugs and stabilizing the program.What we need to do now is to identify any remaining issues that are serious enough to block the release (so-called "showstoppers"). There are some more bugfixes coming up, so we are not quite ready for a release candidate yet, but you should definitely let us know about any serious issues we may have missed.This build includes numerous bugfixes and general stability work, as well as skin fixes, and some important changes to Opera Link. Opera Unite has also… -
Freedom
Looking for freedom? Do you want to share things with who you want, when you want? Do you want to stay in touch with your friends, chat and collaborate, without your data being at the mercy of middlemen? Now, with your own web server, you'll be ready to do all this directly from your computer.We call it Opera Unite, and it has capabilities like File I/O, server-side scripting with Javascript, combined with UPnP support and much more.The two way internet is here, and with Opera, you're at both ends whenever you run it.Do you think that sounds cool? Check out our Opera Unite…
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Outpost Users Support Forum
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[addendum] Given up on Outpost
4 Jul 2009 | 5:58 amHello, I apologize if I, somehow, seemed rude in this thread http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum...ad.php?t=24301 I'm starting this new thread, since the other one is closed. I just want to clarify certain things, to exclude any possible doubt. @ Manny Carvalho Quote: While a problem happening to you occurs 100% of the time it doesn't mean it happens to everybody. There are thousands of people that can install the Outpost drivers. If it that didn't occur then nobody would buy it as you can try, from the official product page, the product free for a month before purchasing . I'm sorry that… -
2012 - doomsday
3 Jul 2009 | 9:11 pmHi, I thought the poll could use some refreshment. It's not security related but I'm curious to see the stats :) You probably heard of or seen a video of 2012, and what will happen with our planet. What do you think of all that? Cast your vote now! -
Packet log
3 Jul 2009 | 9:01 pmA month of two ago I cleared the OSS' logs. Since then I do not have a single entry in Packet Log. Is there some way to force an entry in the Packet Log to see if it's still functioning? -
Outpost system requirements
3 Jul 2009 | 8:20 pmThank you, hayc59, for your screenshot. You have a better CPU and a much better graphics card than I have. My CPU is only an Intel Core2 Duo CPU E4400 @ 2.00GHz. I have no second choice firewall, so I guess I'm stuck with Outpost 4 until I get a new machine. Even though I have issues with Outpost 4, it still does an excellent job in it's most important function - protecting me on the network. I'm just going to have to find another way of dealing with anti-leak problems. -
asp_serv.exe
3 Jul 2009 | 1:52 pmHi friends Today I gave the Anti-Spam module in OSS a shot.. I'm actually quite happy with its performance and such. But there's a little problem, after I closed my e-mailclient (Outlook Express) the service asp_srv.exe keeps sitting in the Task Manager. Is there some option or way to have it automatically removed after I close Outlook Express? I know I'm a old nagging grandma :) I just love to play around with OSS. Have a very fine day further. stanny
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Web Browsers News and Reviews
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What do LOLCats Sound Like (IE8 Ad)?
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June, 2009 - IE Falls Below 60%, Firefox Surpasses 30% Market Share, Opera, Chrome, Safari
3 Jul 2009 | 11:53 amYet again, it’s time to check how your favorite web browser market share changed in a month. For the very first time, Internet Explorer has fallen below 60% market share mark, from 62.09% to 59.49% Good news for Firefox fans as well, it has finally surpassed 30% market share mark, went up from 28.75% to 30.33% Nearing its final, version 10 release, Opera web browser also increased its market share by 0.13, from 3.23% to 3.36% With the launch of Safari 4 final, this web browser market share went up by 0.28 points, from 2.65% to 2.93% Google Chrome continues its healthy growth, up by 0.4,… -
Maxthon 2.5.2 Hits the Scene
2 Jul 2009 | 12:22 pmAfter a total of 5 beta releases, today Maxthon International has released a final version of its web browser: Maxthon 2.5.2.7058. Besides performance improvements and bug fixes, team has also added a support for online favorites with http protocol, enhanced tabbed browsing feature and other optimizations. Download Changelog -
Google Adwords now Supports Firefox 3.5
2 Jul 2009 | 7:20 amWith the release of Firefox 3.5, people started to see the following message when opening Google Adwords interface with the latest browser version: “Support for Firefox 3.5 is coming soon. Until then, please use an earlier version of Firefox when viewing the new interface.” Fortunately, the issue has been finally fixed and everything works like a charm again. -
Firefox 3.5 vs. Safari 4 vs. Opera 10 vs. Chrome 2 vs. IE8
1 Jul 2009 | 1:06 pmAdrian Kingsley Hughes from ZDNet has benchmarked Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5 and 3.0, Safari 4, Opera 10 (alpha!) and Chrome 2.0 browsers using SunSpider, V8 benchmarks. Chrome 2 wins in both benchmarks which is followed by Safari 4. In the V8 benchmark suite however, other web browsers lag behind by up to 36 times. Results are as follow:
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Planet Browser News
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1.4: you have to manually reload the first time
Based on newsgroup postings, users did not get the news that Firebug 1.4 requires a manual reload the first time you open it on a site. Ok, no I don’t know how they would know. So here it is: In 1.4, when you open Firebug on a page it does not automatically reload the page. You have to do it manually. In 1.3, the page was reloaded for you. We made this change because some users (ok it was Steve , complained that the reload was not always necessary and sometimes wastes time. This is especially true for users who are primarily interested in HTML and CSS or for users who want to know just when… -
Presenting in Boston at SIGIR Workshop
I have been accepted to present a short paper entitled “Ubiquity: Designing a Multilingual Natural Language Interface” at the ACM SIGIR Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World in Boston on July 23rd. I’ll probably be there in Boston a few days before or after as well in order to find an apartment for the fall. If anyone is in Boston at that time and would like to meet up, or if you’re near Cambridge and looking for an apartment-mate, please let me know. If you would like to see a preprint of the paper, please contact me at x@x.com where x=mitcho. Related Posts No… -
Measuring the success of the knowledge base
In March, I posted about using article feedback to improve knowledge base articles and the importance of making knowledge base articles easy to read; but those are specific areas that are part of a greater knowledge base goal, which is to make the process of Firefox self-help as easy as possible. There are few sources of information to we draw from: Top searches: The most common search terms in the SUMO Weekly metrics document. Weekly common issues: Our Weekly Common Issues page tracks the most common support issues each week. Article polls: At the bottom of each article, there are poll… -
Scott Adams vs AdBlock Plus
Funny: Ad blocking software like AdBlock Plus may cause animation to not play. Please disable. You know you've made an impact when Dilbert calls you out. Nice. -
What’s Next for Testdays?
What we’ve done so far over the past 3 months: - 2,636 manual test cases run via litmus - 150 Bugs created spanning multiple Mozilla related projects - 8 MozMill Testscripts created - 15 Website Test Reports collected - An average of 39.3 Testday participants on IRC partaking in the day’s activities I’m pretty proud of the work that’s been done so far by the Mozilla QA Community since we re-started Testdays on a bi-monthly basis. That’s a lot of results over a time when we were still trying to figure out how to use Testdays in the best way possible and squeeze the amount of…
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About.com Web Browsers
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iPhone Browser of the Day: Magic Browser
2 Jul 2009 | 5:16 amAs we head into the holiday weekend, it's time to profile another browser for the iPhone and iPod touch. Thursday's entry into the fray is the Magic Browser, a... -
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5 Browser
30 Jun 2009 | 2:08 pmWith promises of lightning-fast speeds, support for the latest Web technologies, and some neat new features such as Location-Aware Browsing, Mozilla released the highly anticipated Firefox 3.5 browser this morning.... -
20 Featured Interface Add-Ons
26 Jun 2009 | 8:25 amNo Web browser is perfect, and there are always things about the interface of our favorite browser that we'd like to change. Check out these 20 free add-ons which tweak... -
iPhone Browser of the Day: iBrowse2
23 Jun 2009 | 11:18 amIt's been a few days since we profiled a new browser for the iPhone and iPod touch. Tuesday's pick, iBrowse2, introduces dual page browsing to the portable world. ... -
The Top 11 Tabbed Browsing Add-Ons
20 Jun 2009 | 10:12 amPerhaps the greatest browser innovation to hit the scene over the past several years is the tab. Although most of us probably take it for granted at this point, tabbed...
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Opera
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@ZasheRB I like it, frees up tabs on my Opera browser and I don't have to wait for crappy load times.
4 Jul 2009 | 1:00 am@ZasheRB I like it, frees up tabs on my Opera browser and I don't have to wait for crappy load times.[Filtrs in article: opera ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com] -
Opera 10.0 Build 1622 Beta - CrimsonRain.Com
4 Jul 2009 | 1:00 amOpera 10.0 Build 1622 Beta is released.Operalets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, andadvanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse. What's new in Opera 10.0: * Presto 2.2 ...[Filtrs in article: opera ][FiltrRank: 5][Source: crimsonrain.com] -
Found my phone; I set it on the wireless waiting for the Blackberry browser 2 show a link from Ubertwitter; wish it would call Opera instead
4 Jul 2009 | 1:00 amFound my phone; I set it on the wireless waiting for the Blackberry browser 2 show a link from Ubertwitter; wish it would call Opera instead[Filtrs in article: opera ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com] -
@ifd Talvez então seja pq eu não use o Firefox como main browser, e opte por usar Opera, Chrome ou Safari...
4 Jul 2009 | 1:00 am@ifd Talvez então seja pq eu não use o Firefox como main browser, e opte por usar Opera, Chrome ou Safari...[Filtrs in article: opera ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com] -
Opera's Bruising Browser Warhttp://bit.ly/LfW2B
4 Jul 2009 | 1:00 amOpera's Bruising Browser Warhttp://bit.ly/LfW2B[Filtrs in article: opera ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com]
