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Archive for May, 2010
Opera 10.53 Build 3374 is now available
May 12th
Opera 10.53 Build 3374 is now available.
New in Opera 10.53
- Enjoy unprecedented speed with our new Carakan JavaScript engine, Vega graphics library, and Opera Presto 2.5 browser engine.
- Opera includes industry leading support for Web standards such as HTML 5, SVG and JavaScript.
- Enhanced platform integration on Windows and Mac means that Opera looks and works better than ever on your operating system.
- A beautiful, new design looks great on Windows, maximizing your view of the Web and fully utilizing Aero transparency on Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
- Our improved dialogs will not get in your way or interrupt you. You can now switch between different pages without having to clear prompts first.
- Searching is easier than ever, with Web search integrated right in the address field. You can also find pages from your history and bookmarks, as you type.
- Displaying pages in the size you want is smoother than ever, with a new zoom slider in the status bar.
- Rest assured that browsing stays personal with private browsing. Once you close a private tab or window, the data from that session is removed from the browser without a trace.
Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera’s groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. Opera, first of all, is client World Wide Web, that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language (language of a marking of hypertext HTML).
Low requirements to resources of system. Opera will work even on 386 computer about 6 MB of operative memory. MDI the interface. You can open without special expenses of memory any quantity of windows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.
Opera started out as a research project in Norway’s largest telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products.
Weave Sync 1.2.3 is now available
May 5th
Weave Sync 1.2.3
Mozilla has released Weave 1.2.3, the Firefox extension and service that provides Firefox user data synchronization among computing devices like laptops, desktops, and starting tomorrow, with Firefox for Maemo release, mobile devices. It is also great for users who dual-boot, and what don’t want to bother remembering where they did what.
So far, synchronization includes bookmarks, history, preferences, passwords, filled forms, and even your last 25 opened tabs. All the information is transported and stored in encrypted form at all times making it pretty safe to use.
Weave, in development for more than two years now, includes a client (the Weave Sync extension), and a server component (Weave Server) so companies could deploy their own synchronization servers.
A feature that is not present but was tried at some point in Weave development is automatic sign-on, but it could come back at some point.
Also, preferences finally ended in its own tab in the Options or Preferences dialog, after trying a page approach Mozilla is considering for the whole preferences user interface or add-on management at least (more on this in the next post).
Check out the release notes for more details. Download Weave Sync from Mozilla Add-ons.
Recent changes
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- Sync data faster by detecting when you’ve added additional devices and downloading all data in one pass
- Easier access to remote tabs from the right-end of the tab bar or going to about:weave-tabs
- Less disruptive “start over” by showing the sync direction options and skipping the username entry
- Prevent potential data corruption by favoring most recent changes and being less strict about version requirements
- (1.2.3) Add support for Firefox on Android (Fennec pre-alpha)
- (1.2.2) Fix compatibility with trunk nightly builds of Minefield
- (1.2.1) Sync a capped number of form history items to avoid slowing Firefox
