Posts Tagged ‘Opera’

The Internet is at war. In fact, the whole consumer market is actively engaging in many wars across many different levels. The thing is, while we know that there is a “browser war” going on out there, we find ourself wondering what exactly is going on. Who is actually fighting and how? We are all familiar with the “big 3” and I would even risk saying “big 5”: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Google’s Chrome Browser, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and Opera’s Opera Browser. But what are they fighting for? Market share? Mozilla will tell you that they are fighting for the open web, and yet, no one else is. At the end of the day, regardless of the individual motives of the companies, this whole war is about who has the browser you should use.

Opera is currently showcasing its browser ideas at the Upnorthweb conference in Oslo, Norway. the company demonstrated a hardware-accelerated version of the desktop browser, which we are scheduled to get on Thursday. There is also a significant emphasis on mobile browsing and bandwidth savings.

The Webkit browsers Chrome and Safari have almost caught up with Firefox in market share. Especially Chrome continues to gain at an astonishing pace: It has become the most popular web browser in some countries, is passing Firefox in major nations and is driving Webkit to daily market shares of more than 30% according to StatCounter. If Chrome can maintain the current trend, it will pass Firefox in market share within five months.

Browsers tend to attract users with varying intelligence levels. A new study indicates that Opera users are smarter than everyone else. IE ranks at the very bottom of browser user IQ levels.

If you had to take a guess about the most often used mobile web browsers, which ones would you pick? In which order?

Opera today released a new version of its browser.

I do not tend to switch browsers easily. If you are using a browser today for more than just casual browsing, you may be locked in with a collection of bookmarks and certain features you get used to. Norway’s Opera has a passionate and loyal user base, but it is a shame that Opera is trapped below Firefox, Chrome and IE in the browser market. A new “featherweight” Opera deserves more attention.

Sunspider, which has been the most prominent benchmark to determine a browser’s JavaScript performance over the past four years, is not worth considering anymore, says Google. The tests do not reflect a browser JavaScript performance anymore as the individual tests are just too short, the company claimed. So Google modified the test and found much more speed in Sunspider for Chrome. Take a wild guess how IE performs in this modified version.

Analysis – Opera today released a first preview of the upcoming Opera 11.5 web browser. There are new features, but there is no general hardware acceleration support. Another sign how important quick browser releases are today?

There is quite a bit of browser news out there today. Firefox 4 is officially released, Opera discontinues Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.x, and Chrome gets a developer update, as well as multitab support.

Preceding the launch of IE9 later today, we are learning about a new bug in Firefox 4, a bug in IE9 Microsoft will not fix prior to launch and Mozilla’s claims that Microsoft’s IE9 marketing is sexist.

If you are running a Wordpress blog on a basic theme, then you will have you plan some extra time adjusting your blog as the latest wave of web browsers is not rendering the sites correctly.