Download Opera - ( 12.5 MB ) - Latest Version 10.54

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- This software runs on : Microsoft Windows ( All )

 

 

What is Opera

 

Opera web browser is one of the most popular browsers and one of the best. It was launched for the first time in 1996 and since then has been improved. What Opera has to offer and makes it different from other similar browsers are his features like the strong encryption when you are browsing secure web sites, an integrated download manager, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, page zooming, built in protection against phishing and the ability to delete private data that may affect your privacy like cookies and browsing history. Opera is designed to run on a variety of operating systems that includes the most popular ones: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD. Coming with the latest version of Opera browser, it was introduced Speed Dial that improves your navigation to your favourites websites. The fraud protection that is being composed from an anti-phishing detection will help in some cases to keep your browsing experience safe. There are many other features present like a strong pop-up blocker and innovative widgets. Also, if you wish, you can use beautiful skins if you intend to personalize your Opera browser or you can simply add your favourite search engine. So start creating your own personalized web browser based on the security and speed of Opera.

 

Editor reviews for Opera

 

I don't know why but Opera browser received a lot of awards and the evaluations of users have been largely positive but Opera has had a limited success on people computers. Nowadays, it the fourth most used web browser for personred worldwide ) behind Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Probably because Opera is still an unknown browser for many people. I used Opera and sincerely I love it. Right now I am not using it but not because is a bad browser, it is an excellent browser I guess I am too lazy to download this software and start using. I know is very fast and secure and has a lot of options. I was using it among other popular web browsers to test my websites behavior. It should become an important player on the web browser market if their publisher will make efforts to promote Opera better. I mean probably the advertising of a product counts more in generally. For example, I know Opera browser is better than Browser X but I am continuing to use Browser X because...I don't know, it crashes, it's not secure and it is loading hard but I am still using it, why use Opera only because he is ten times better. Here it's like drinking an worldwide well known drink that has a negative impact on your health on a long term, you know this juice is hurting you but you are still drinking it just because it's advertised everywhere. Perhaps you should stop and we should start drinking natural juice or only pure water. It is very sad since Opera have what it takes to unseat well known Web browsers if the people that are using the Internet give him a chance. So if you didn't use it before, download Opera browser, install it and give it a try, since it definetely deserves a better place...on our personal computers.

 

Opera additional notes

 

There are many technical issues but when it comes to talk about web browser, I don't think that someone has a perfect browser. There are a lot of languages that the browsers must understand like client scripting languages ( like Javascript ) and server languages ( like PHP or ASP ). Think about it that more than a half of the Internet websites have errors that may block your browser or result in undesired errors. You probably encountered many times errors that displayed some part of the code in your browser. So it's very hard to create a perfect browser. There is no such thing like the best browser for windows, best browser for linux or best browser for MAC. Some users reported problems when Opera loaded some pages ( but this may be a problem of server that hosts that website ) and it doesn't have the compatibility on some websites Mozilla Firefox and IE have. I guess there are more positive reviews about Opera then negative reviews and the votes for Opera comes to his low resource requirements, fast websites loads ( it is well known that Opera loads websites faster that Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox ) and his low dimensions when you are downloading this browser - approximately 6 MB. There is not enough to use only a browser no matter how secure it's supposed to be. If you are accessing the Internet, it become almost necessary to install an antivirus program and an anti-spyware application on your computer.

 

Opera ChangeLog :

 

# User Interface
# Added


- Opera Link button with dropdown menu on the status bar; access to Opera Link in the main menu moved to Tools

 

# Fixed
- Issue with Opera Turbo and plug-in placeholders
- Enabling Opera Turbo for the first time not showing the Opera Turbo information page
- Opera not synchronizing more than 9 Speed Dials
- Open instance of Opera not running when a laptop enters its wakeup stage
- Commandline URL length being limited while Opera is running
- Font enumeration problem
- Issue when opening File open/Save dialog boxes

 

# Mail, news, chat
# Fixed
- Problem creating a new mail account
- Drafts sometimes missing after upgrading to Opera 10.00
- Follow/Ignore contact not working from the message header toolbar

 

# Security
# Fixed
- Fixed an issue where certain domain names could allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Chris Weber of Casaba Security ; see our advisory
- Fixed an issue where scripts can run on the feed subscription page
- Fixed an issue where Web fonts could be used to spoof the page address

 

# Miscellaneous
# Fixed
- Custom changes to operaprefs not appearing when upgrading from a version older than Opera 10.00
- Issue of 100% CPU usage fixed by preventing and avoiding the filling up of message loop
- Opera not starting after computer reboot
- Startup problem when Opera is installed in a path with a 2-byte character
- Problem when upgrading single-user installation of Opera with no reference in registry