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Opera 11 and extensions

By olli. Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:22:10 AM

We have today showcased some cool new stuff at our yearly press event Up North Web.

For desktop we have showcased extensions which will be part of the Opera 11 release.
Opera has always been very customizable and now we make than even better by allowing developers to extend Opera's rich feature set even further.

The upcoming Opera 11 alpha will be based on the current Opera 10.70 builds, which also means we will not ship a 10.70 final.


More info from Up North Web

Opera Mobile for Android:
http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2010/10/14/opera-mobile-for-android-coming-soon

Opera 10.63 releasedMore Unix font work

Comments

IKoke Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:37:16 AM

cheers

pursanovd Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:38:40 AM

HEHEEe!! smile Very, Very nice! This actions may boost Opera's popularity! Congratz, and waiting for 1st alpha builds with new things to taste and test ninja

Morphdreamer Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:41:44 AM

Sweet, can't wait to test it myself! yes

WillYum Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:45:37 AM

Wow. WTG Opera -- it's fascinating idea. Can't wait to get more.

asfaltas Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:47:18 AM

wow opera 11 alpha waiting for test this new build thanks opera team bigsmile no

Obese MauriceObeseMaurice Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:47:27 AM

Awesome. I hope that this happens really soon, I want to test it! cheers knockout

Oh and I'm expecting hardware acceleration too! bigsmile

Ramkumar Shankarramkumarshankar Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:48:14 AM

Fantantic news! Extensions probably was the last gap between Opera and the other browsers. And this will certainly give Opera a huge boost. smile

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:48:48 AM

w00t! bigsmile

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:49:25 AM

Not that bothered about extensions really. It leads to incompatibilities, instabilities and security issues.

However the upside will be that more people will look at Opera. The real shame is they should be looking at Opera anyway.

Robert MeijersRobert90 Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:50:49 AM

Now Opera Mobile for Android gets/has HA, can we expect it for desktop too? bigsmile

And I surely think extensions is a good idea (altough I think I won't use them that much) because you see a lot of complaints about Opera that it doesn't have an extension API

Александр Карпинскийhomm Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:52:19 AM

When first alpha?

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:59:31 AM

up Multi-Process, for security, right?

mrd Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:00:39 AM

I guess it was a matter of time given the way every other browser was going.

It will take some *very* compelling extensions for me to go down that path but hey, if it does anything to increase popularity and marketshare of Opera... without sacrificing functionality and stability then I'm all for it.

Vlad Salingpolluxx Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:01:45 AM

Great news!! Cannot wait.

styxmp Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:02:05 AM

Cool of course, but no 10.70 final and again alphas. Need to buy some valerian wait

bleicher Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:02:10 AM

looks like mainstream won - would be nice to hear some statements concerning security.
firefox got some spyware extensions and some insecure FFextensions were installed by 3d party software "silent"
is Opera going to have some kind of protection? e.g. password protection for installation of addons, security-status reports (insecurefeatures of addons listing) etc.?

protion9 Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:05:57 AM

Extensions are a really good idea, but please, be careful with the security, performance and stability. All we know the problems of Mozilla with its extensions...

hurug Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:11:26 AM

Warmly welcome

MartinMastermind1 Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:12:58 AM

Hope they put the accent on security before friendliness when talking about extensions. Wouldn't want my opera to be filled with "bars" like IE or insecure with "silent" extension installations like it happened with FF.
Not having that kind of problems is the reason I use Opera in the first place.

Mascotmascot Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:18:22 AM

What will be the relation between userJS, OperaWidgets and the new Extensions? Will these be unified into one technology?

TigTex Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:18:33 AM

I don't use extensions, I only need the integrated content blocker but extensions will probably make opera more popular.
Just make sure that extensions won't slowdown the browser and have a master extension button, to disable them all.
And please, hardware acceleration!

Diamond00744 Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:23:04 AM

Please add toolbars to Opera 11 bigsmile wink

JaredpieRr0Ur Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:26:48 AM

yes

mrd Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:28:31 AM

Yeah the extensions framework needs to ship turned off by default and have an easy way to flip that status. I'd even suggest - depending on the level of extensibility you're going with - that you allow an enable/disable per site (which is overruled downwards by the master setting)

And never let any place - not even my.opera install them silently.

But hey, progress I guess. Even if it's progress to play "catch up" with other barebones, feature-poor browsers that need extensions to make them complete.

Scorpion2012 Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:29:59 AM


Awesome News. Looking Forward to Opera 11 bigsmile

Irontiger Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:30:42 AM

Perhaps some kind of Android market overview (which components are used by an extension). But additionally the ability to block some rights for an extension so it can't spy your privacy.

Justasdrumblius Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:32:59 AM

OMG, this is going to be awesome!

Damian StępnikeDameXxX Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:36:51 AM

SUPER up

SteveKong Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:40:47 AM

At least we won't have anymore complaints about Opera lacking extensions. Although I am using them neither on FF, Sa nor Ch...

Krio LythKriolyth Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:47:54 AM

Originally posted by SteveKong:

At least we won't have anymore complaints about Opera lacking extensions. Although I am using them neither on FF, Sa nor Ch...


I'm sure there will be other complaints, like "my extension is not working in Opera!" - just like "my page is not shown correctly in Opera" smile

xoed Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:53:43 AM

Yupi. Adblock plus will be alive. p

sabisan Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:57:42 AM

Cheers to Opera team for great news ! yes

vasstr Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:59:40 AM

so we will be allowed to know letter under mouse via extensions or it will be same useless, like opera userscripts?

vasstr Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:02:35 AM

so we will be allowed to write socks proxy extension or it will be like last five years of ignorance?

Tarmas Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:11:10 AM

Good news.

Now could you please consider providing the M2 client, Unite, Widgets and IRC as separate extensions rather than keeping the functionality built in? I imagine that I'm not the only one who finds it useless in every day use.

Tuttle Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:13:34 AM

Good news as some people argues one mistake is the lack of extensions.
Now they will be able to make their own, making their browsing experience more like they want.

Cheers, party

bachokocho Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:16:57 AM

Originally posted by mrd:

Yeah the extensions framework needs to ship turned off by default and have an easy way to flip that status.

And never let any place - not even my.opera install them silently.

But hey, progress I guess. Even if it's progress to play "catch up" with other barebones, feature-poor browsers that need extensions to make them complete.


I couldn't say it better up
Eventually the business aspect prevails and I wish you guys good luck! I have already all I need with Opera

kollitaja Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:24:24 AM

For desktop we have showcased extensions which will be part of the Opera 11 release.



Nice up

rdsu Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:29:41 AM

Great News!!!

ЕвгенийOneginUA Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:37:48 AM

please add hardware acceleration to Opera 11 yes

lshk Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:46:42 AM

Under what number should I expect "Opera and interface"?

Aux Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:51:15 AM

Extensoins, extension... Where is hardware acceleration promised years ago?

iamfromreallifeiFloriano Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:00:45 AM

Make Chrome extensions compatible, please bigsmile

blackcaeser Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:02:09 AM

YES! yes

So, what's about PGP/GPG for M2? Will we be able to implement it as an extension?

DayderDay Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:03:17 AM

Originally posted by clashcityrocker:

Not that bothered about extensions really. It leads to incompatibilities, instabilities and security issues.
However the upside will be that more people will look at Opera. The real shame is they should be looking at Opera anyway.


+1

AgentCROCODILE Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:06:01 AM

I'm wondering if this will allow Opera Unite to run as an extension? Modular Opera might be a possibility then.

Of course, Firefox has extensions. But, what Firefox can do, Opera can do better.

Xombiemubaidr Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:06:47 AM

Hurrraaayyyy... party Love <3 Opera... bigsmile yes

cyb Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:07:12 AM

Was about to write something about the mail client and GnuPG too, but I noticed your post above, Leonard Preis.

Personally I really would like to see a GnuPG capable M2.

Matheusnom4d3br Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:11:29 AM

Finally Opera Mobile for my Android phone bigsmile

TYSM!

Necroman Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:12:38 AM

Opera 11, yes Expecting anxiously hardware acceleration and also more HTML5 stuff rolleyes

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