Category Archives: Desktop

Bytemobile and Opera Software Form Partnership for Browser Optimization

Mountain View, Calif. and Oslo, Norway, January 17, 2006   Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in content-dynamic networking solutions that unify, simplify and accelerate mobile data networks, and Opera Software ASA (OBX: OPERA), the world leader in Web browser technologies, today announced a joint development, marketing and sales agreement for handset browser optimization. The two […]

Security concerns drive record downloads of Opera 8.51: Online shoppers seek browser alternatives during holiday season

Oslo – November 28, 2005 Opera Software, the world leader in Web browsing technologies, today revealed that online security concerns have prompted record downloads of Opera 8.51, the latest version of Opera’s award-winning Web browser. The surge in downloads can be attributed in part to the detection of additional, severe security flaws in Internet Explorer. […]

Opera 8.51 for Desktop: Download the latest maintenance, stability, and security release.

Oslo, Norway – November 22, 2005   Opera’s latest release addresses the security issue in the Flash Player (Secunia Advisory 17437).Opera 8.51 for Windows ships with Macromedia Flash version 7r61.   The release is a recommended security upgrade for Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris users, because it updates Opera’s wrapper script to not run commands included with URLs passed […]

Surfing at 30,000 feet: The Opera browser now available in Thales in-flight entertainment systems

Oslo, Norway – November 1, 2005 Opera Software today announced its cooperation with Thales to deliver the Opera Web browser in TopSeries, the Thales in-flight entertainment system. Airline passengers will now enjoy the added benefit of a full and fast Internet experience from Opera, in addition to the entertainment offerings also available using the Thales […]

Opera Software Releases Browsers in Hindi and Punjabi: Only Current Browser Supporting Both Languages

Oslo, Norway – October 17, 2005 Opera Software today announced the availabilityof its browser in both Hindi and Punjabi.The browser is available for Windows and Linux.It can be downloaded from Opera’s download page.   “The Web must become more accessible to people wherever they live andwhatever language they speak,” said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, […]

Opera Quadruples Download Rates

Oslo, Norway – October 5, 2005 More than three million new users havedownloaded the Opera browser in the two weeks since the company launched its free browser. The average daily download rate quadruples the previousrate achieved before the release of Opera 8.5. Opera’s growth comes as consumers demand greater safety and productivityonline. Opera has the […]

Twice the Speed and No Speedos: Opera Reaches One Million Downloads in Two Days

Oslo, Norway – September 22, 2005   More than one million people have downloaded the Opera browser in the two days since Opera announced it was dropping the ad banner and going completely free.   The download rate doubles the previous record reached in April when the company released Opera 8. According to server logs, […]

Feel Free: Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing Fee

Oslo, Norway – September 20, 2005 Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser.The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download – completely free of charge – at http://www.opera.com. “Today we invite the entire Internet community to use Opera and experience Web browsing as it […]

Enjoy the view: Opera Browser on the new WLAN-enabled DoCoMo M1000 3G phone in Japan

Oslo, Norway – August 31, 2005 Opera Software today announced that their popular Web browser will come standard on the new 3G handset from NTT DoCoMo Inc., the M1000. The M1000 is an advanced 3G phone for the business market, with full Internet and e-mail connectivity through both 3G and GSM networks, WLAN and Bluetooth. […]

Opera upgrades to 8.02

Oslo, Norway – July 28, 2005 Opera Software today released the second upgrade to Opera 8. The new version, Opera 8.02, is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh and includes security upgrades and smaller bug fixes. Opera 8.02 does not include support for the BitTorrent protocol, which was launched on July 7, 2005 in a […]