OperaOpera is a browser that perhaps doesn’t have a huge market share, but it always brings innovation to the table, and is often the leader in many segments, even with fierce competition from ChromeChrome, SafariSafari, FirefoxFirefox, and (now) Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer. Now, it’s released one of the biggest – at least by number – milestones in its history: version 10.
The new version comes right on time (it was due September 1st), and we’ve covered alpha, beta and RC versions, so there’s no huge surprises here. Perhaps the biggest question is: will this milestone change anything as far as Opera’s worldwide reception goes? It hasn’t happened so far with earlier versions, but perhaps the big 10 at the end accounts for something. In any case, we’ll be monitoring Opera’s market share closely in the following months. As far as features go, the biggest new addition is Opera Turbo, which makes browsing fast even when you’re on a slow internet connection. Other novelties are a fresh appearance, enhanced speed (especially on resource intensive sites such as GmailGmail or FacebookFacebook), an improved Opera Mail, auto updating (very important for improving the overall security of the browser), a personalized Speed Dial feature, and resizable, thumbnail tabs.
Microsoft may be opposed, but the campaign to kill off Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer 6 has gained a powerful ally this week: GoogleGoogle’s OrkutOrkut, the leading social network in Brazil, has vowed to stop supporting the browser. If you visit Orkut using IE6 today, you’ll see a warning message that says Orkut is ending support for the browser, while recommending other browsers to try: Internet Explorer 8, ChromeChrome, and FirefoxFirefox. Given that Chrome is Google’s IE challenger, it could be seen as generous that Google would push IE8 ahead of its own product. Nonetheless, the greater effect is to push many Brazilian web users away from the outdated IE6 and consider the benefits of a modern web browser: a move that’s good for Google and great for the web design community… Read on at Mashable.com
As it turns out, it won’t just be WindowsWindows 7 that’ll be giving Europeans a choice of what web browser to use. In fact, the lengths that Microsoft is going to appease the European Commission is quite extreme. Ars Technica did some digging and here’s the fine print of the proposal. Within three to six months of the EC’s approval, an update will be sent out to Europeans with Windows XP and Vista, labeled “high priority” or “important.” User who install the update and have Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer as the default browser will see the ballot screen on next log in, which will show up to ten different browsers with at least a 0.5 percent share of the market in the European Economic Area (EEA)… Read on at engadget.com
Yesterday, we published a story entitled IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On, which analyzes HTML 5, the future of the web, and the roadblock that Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer 6 poses to web innovation. While we thought people would agree with us, we couldn’t have ever imagined the overwhelming response of the social web. Apparently a lot of you just can’t stand the 8 year old browser… Take part at Twibbon.com and read on at Mashable.com
Just six years ago, the web was dominated by one browser: Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer, specifically Internet Explorer 6. Without Netscape to compete against it and the ability to bundle its browser with Windows XP, Microsoft experienced superior market share – up to 95% at the peak. Today though, we have far superior browsers like FirefoxFirefox, SafariSafari, OperaOpera, and ChromeChrome, as well as Internet Explorer 8… Read on at Mashable.com
OperaOpera
is a browser that perhaps doesn’t have a huge market share, but it always brings innovation to the table, and is often the leader in many segments, even with fierce competition from ChromeChrome
, and (now) Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer
. Now, it’s released one of the biggest – at least by number – milestones in its history: version 10.
Microsoft may be opposed, but the campaign to kill off