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Vote Opera

By Espen André Øverdahl. Monday, 10. August 2009, 17:32:38

On "tweeterwall" you can vote on what's your favorite Web browser. Opera's one of the picks and if we are your favorite give us your vote.

Vote here!

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IntoMobile sits down with Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner

By Aleksander Aas. Thursday, 6. August 2009, 10:10:42

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Interview with Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner from IntoMobile on Vimeo.

IntoMobile talks to Jon about the story behind Opera Turbo and the vision of Opera!

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Twitter T-shirts Winners

By Espen André Øverdahl. Thursday, 6. August 2009, 09:46:24

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Twitter T-shirts

Winners

Yesterday we hosted a small contest on the popular social networking service Twitter. We asked people to RT (re-tweet) a message from our Opera Twitter account and you could win an Opera t-shirt. As promised, here are the 10 lucky winners. Congratulations!

We will contact you directly on Twitter (direct message):

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Market Share updates!

By Aleksander Aas. Monday, 3. August 2009, 12:35:53

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Hitslink just updated their numbers to include weight by country! From August first the stats will reflect the actual marketshare in regards to the population and Internet availability in the countries listed. This is super news for Opera and Opera fans!

Opera will rise significantly due to this. In Hitslink's own words:

This reflects the significant share they [Opera] have in Eastern Europe and Asia.

The search engine Baidu also gets a well earned bump in the stats.

Check out the full story over at Market Share!

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Opera Talks: Petter Nilsen

By Aleksander Aas. Wednesday, 29. July 2009, 17:13:00

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Welcome to Opera Talk, a new column here at Choose Opera where we will hightlight employees and community members.

First of we have Senior Developer in the Desktop team Petter Nilsen. Straight from his holiday, he took time to answer our questions about his favorite features.

Choose Opera: Who are you and what do you do here at Opera?

Petter: I'm a Senior Developer on the Desktop browser. When I think about it I realize I've been working for Opera for 5 years in September. Time flies when you're having fun! In these 5 years, I've worked on BitTorrent, the content blocker, Speed Dial, Tab Thumbnails, create search and search customization, Opera Link, Opera Unite and many other features.

Choose Opera: What is your favorite feature in any Opera product?

Petter: Of all the features we have have I would have to say Speed Dial. So simple yet so immensely useful and powerful. Can I mention more than one feature I love? If yes, I would like to add Opera Link synchronization of bookmarks, Speed Dial, searches, etc. and mouse gestures.

Choose Opera: And the feature you most recently discovered?

Petter: I would say User CSS of certain web pages. I use Dragonfly to find which styles are used on a page, then I write my own style sheet to override certain styles. I can make a page look more like I want.

Choose Opera: Seeing how you know a lot about features, care to give us a scoop?

Petter: As you know, Opera 10 adds the possibility of adding more Speed Dial positions, up to a total of 25. 25 has been picked as it seems to be a reasonable maximum number, but users can of course add more by editing the speeddial.ini located in their profile directory.

Another little feature that currently doesn't have a user interface within Opera is the possibility of adding custom transparency to the Speed Dials itself. This can be useful if you have a particularly nice background picture and you want to see more of that and less of the Speed Dials. Quit Opera, open speeddial.ini in a text editor and add:

[UI]
Opacity=50

50 means 50% which means all the Speed Dials will be 50% transparent. You can make them invisible by using 1 as value, but 50-70 seems to be reasonable values. A word of warning though: This is a experimental feature and might or might not be in future versions (but it works in Opera 10 Beta 2). It might also introduce a performance penalty when painting the Speed Dial on some computers and operating systems.

Choose Opera: Thanks! And while we try out that neat trick, we thank Petter for taking the time to chat with us!

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