Opera’s Desktop strategy is clearly not working for them. Although they enjoy consistent market share of about 2 per cent worldwide they haven’t been able to make a dent in the desktop market space. Yet they have been highly successful in the mobile segment. In December 2011, the Opera Mini browser saw increases in unique [...]
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My meet with Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie
I almost missed the Opera meetup with Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie which I had previously blogged about. I did make it to the meet-up albeit an hour late. Håkon Wium Lie in the previous hour went through HTML5, CSS3 developments and demoed few future developments on Opera Desktop. Nothing on Opera Mobile or Mini [...]
Mumbai Opera meetup with CTO Håkon Wium Lie
There’s an Opera meetup in Mumbai where Opera’s CTO, Håkon Wium Lie, is coming down to India to meet Opera fans and talk about future of technology. Lately I have been disappointed with Opera desktop on multiple levels and although I haven’t really completely migrated to some other browser (No FF for me), I find myself [...]
Eric Schmidt comments on Opera’s Security issue. But which?
Finally I managed to watch the Eric Schmidt’s interview at the LeWeb held in Paris where Loic and Eric talked on a broad range of topics including ICS, Google TV, Google Fridge, etc. While talking about Google TV, Eric Schmidt commented on Opera’s security issues. His comment stated that it doesn’t matter if you are [...]
Thanks @Opera for fixing this
Hey awesome guys at Opera, thanks for fixing this. It was vastly annoying to see the pointer a bit right side of the marker. I have tons of things that I want from Opera to fix like — copying rich text formatting. I don’t understand why Opera does not provide this one in particular. This [...]
Amazon Silk Browser. What’s the brouhaha about?
I finally checked out what Amazon Silk browser is all about. And it looks, the Silk browser uses the same working principles of Opera Mini. Check out the video Amazon Silk Browser’s intro video: Can anyone tell me what’s all the hoopla around the browser? I mean I don’t get it. It’s been done before. [...]
Opera’s partnership with content sites
Opera, the Norwegian browser company partners with a bunch of content sites. These content sites appear on Speed dials on Opera Mini and Mobile on a fresh install. While it sounds good to announce partnership, I wonder how much does these kinds partnership help the content sites. For me, once I install a fresh copy [...]
Google Chrome kicks Firefox to become #2 browser in UK
Ah. Finally. Reuters reports that Google Chrome has kicked Firefox’s ass to become second most widely used browser in UK after the mighty old Internet Explorer of course. Tweet
Avg IQ of people who use Opera is high
God I know I have been posting a lot about Opera these days, I apologize for that. Not. Maybe I will start a blog dedicated to Opera some day. Tweet
Opera 11 is least secure against Malware
NSS Labs performed web browser security test which consisted of gathering data over 19 days over 76 ‘discrete’ each adding new malware URLs. Apparently, Opera 11 performed the crappiest. Tweet
