Recent News, 2005

Web’n’Walk: Opera and T-Mobile introduce full Web browsing to T-Mobile’s customers

Oslo, Norway – June 29, 2005 Opera Software, global leader in Webbrowser technologies, and T-Mobile today introduced the new Nokia 6680with the Opera browser as part of T-Mobile’s “Internet in your pocket”offering available in July 2005. Powered by the fast and popular Operabrowser, the Nokia 6680 couples mobile telephony with full Web access, andis the […]

Opera Web Browser on the new ZTE e3 Mobile Phone

Oslo, Norway – June 28, 2005 Opera Software today announced that ZTECorporation, China’s leading telecommunications manufacturer and wirelesssolutions provider, has chosen the Opera mobile Web browser for their newGSM mobile phone in China, the e3. The ZTE e3 is an advanced Linux-basedsmartphone geared toward the Chinese business market, and the firstsmartphone with Opera to be […]

Response to the Dialogue Origin Spoofing Vulnerability reported by Secunia Research

Oslo, Norway – June 24, 2005 Secunia Research reported on June 21 that it discovered a vulnerability in various browsers. The vulnerability can be exploited by malicious Web sites to spoof dialog boxes. The latest release of Opera (Opera 8.01 for Windows, Mac and Linux), released June 16, is not vulnerable to this issue, as […]

Opera 8 delivers secure browsing to Macintosh

Oslo, Norway – June 16, 2005 Opera Software today released Opera 8 for Macintosh, available for Mac OS X versions 10.2 and higher. Faster than ever before, this comprehensive Web surfing package gives Macintosh users Opera’s extensive functionality and an optional 15 languages standard upon download.   Opera touts its latest Mac release as the […]

First Opera 8 upgrade released today

Oslo, Norway – June 16, 2005 Opera Software today released the first Opera 8 update, Opera 8.01, for Windows and Linux. To fine-tune the well-received browser, Opera 8.01 includes security and small bug fixes as well as JavaScript improvements. This update succeeds the release of Opera 8 on April 19, 2005, which has now reached […]

Bringing full Internet to the Home Media market: Opera SDK to Include Support for MontaVista® Linux® Professional Edition

Oslo, Norway – June 7, 2005 Opera Software today announced its support for MontaVista© Linux© Professional Edition. The Opera for Home Media Software Development Kit (SDK) will include support for MontaVista’s Linux platform which is increasinglyselected for home media devices. Device manufacturers using MontaVista’s Linux platform can now bring thefull Internet to their products with […]

Opera 8 is a PC World 2005 World Class Award Winner

Oslo, Norway – June 3, 2005 Opera Software today announced that it has received PC World’s 2005 World Class Award for its Opera Web browser. This accolade of excellence is based on Opera’s attractive and feature-rich Web browser product, Opera 8.   PC World selects products for this award based on exemplary design, features, performance, […]

Security concerns propel Web browser switch – but many users still unaware of risks

Oslo, Norway – May 31, 2005 More than half of Internet users believe browser choice is a key security factor. In research carried out by Opera Software, 51 percent of the U.S. online population thought their choice of browser can influence whether they get malicious software such as viruses and spyware on their computers. The […]

Opera 8 now available in Italian

Oslo, Norway – May 30, 2005 Oslo, Norway – May 30, 2005 – Opera Software today released Opera 8 for Windows in Italian. Other Opera 8 for Windows language versions include Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.   “Opera strives to offer a better browsing experience in as many languages […]

Two Million and Counting: Opera 8 Web browser welcomed by Internet users world-wide

Oslo, Norway – May 03, 2005 Just two weeks after the release of Opera 8, Opera Software announces that its newest browser has reached two million downloads. This total includes downloads on all available platforms and languages. The English version garnered the most downloads, totaling more than 1.3 million. The German version was the next […]