Posts Tagged ‘Opera’

Disable Taskbar Previews of Browsers in Windows 7

In Windows 7 all the opened tabs of a browser is all grouped in the taskbar as one group and when you hover over it a peak of the tab contents are shown, this is called the taskbar preview, for most of us it may be useful but for some it may be annoying mostly [...]

Opera Mini 5 Beta

Opera has released a beta version of their mobile based browser Opera Mini. The beta version named Opera Mini 5 adds several new features: New design – A new sleek looking user interface has been added. Touch screen browsing – Support for touch screen has been added. Tabbed browsing – Now opera mini supports tabs [...]

Opera 10 Final

Opera 10 final is out. Nothing much to say here as its almost same as the RC build except for a few changes. For those who are switching from 9 there a several new features including the Opera Turbo and Auto update. You can view the full change log and features here: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1000/

Opera 10 Beta (V10.00b1)

  Opera 10 beta is supposed to be 40 percent faster than the previous version. This version include resizable tab bar, improved user interface, spell checker support for 51 languages and Opera turbo which can switch automatically according to network speed. This feature will definitely help users with a slow internet connection. Currently the Opera [...]

Opera 10 Turbo Preview

  Opera has released a preview version of their browser included with the new opera technology called “Opera Turbo”. What this turbo thing does is that it uses server side optimization to compress the amount of data so the total amount to be downloaded will be reduced. This is similar to their “opera mini” optimization. [...]

Configure Ospell to read from Gmail

• Some of you might already know this. • Now some of the users who already have Ospell installed might or might not encountered this problem. When typing something wrong in either the quick reply field or the advanced reply, you get the following message “Error – For HTTPS Gmail, bla bla bla“.

Exceed the 9 Speed Dial slots in Opera

Ok so this neat trick will enable you to exceed the 9 slot limit for Speed Dial that Opera usually has to whatever you want. That being said, I will now explain how you can further expand those 9 slots to whatever you want. And here are the steps.

Opera 10.0 Alpha 1:Passes ACID3 Test

Whats new:   # 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  

Use Ad-Block With Opera

Recently I talked about Opera and its wonderful features and how it lacked in ad-blocking facilities, but finally I found a way to block ads in Opera. The most easiest way in a browser to block almost any type of ads is to block JavaScript and IFrames globally and enable this for sites in individual [...]

Resurrection of Opera

Recently I downloaded the new Opera 9.50 Final. The only word I can use to tell you about it is WOW!, Opera was one of my least favorite browsers because, I did not like the half finished features of the opera 9.50 Betas, but this is a giant leap. I will be talking about the [...]