Opera browser is founder Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, Opera is a web browser and Internet software packages cross-platform. Opera consists of a collection of software for the Internet such as web browsers, as well as software to read and send electronic mail. Opera made by Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Opera can run on different operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux.
Opera is known for having many features later adopted by other web browser. Although it has many advantages, Opera only gets a small portion browser market share of personal computers around the world. However, Opera has a bigger market share on mobile devices such as cell phones, smart phones, and personal digital assistants. Various editions of Opera can be used for devices using the Maemo, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android, and iPhone operating systems, and Java ME. Approximately 120 million mobile phones have been marketed with the Opera browser in it. Opera is the only commercial web browser available for the Nintendo DS and Wii.
Some televisions have the Opera browser in the set-top box or the box settings. Adobe Systems has licensed Opera technology for use in the Adobe Creative Suite. Opera began to be made in 1994 as a research project Telenor, the largest telecommunications company in Norway. In 1995, Telanor branched off into a separate company named Opera Software ASA. Opera was first launched with version 2.0 in 1996, which only operates on Microsoft Windows. In an effort to capitalize on the emergence of the market for handheld devices that are connected to the Internet, a project to integrate Opera to mobile device platforms was started in 1998. Opera 4.0, which was released in 2000, featuring cross-platform core that facilitated creation of new versions of Opera for multiple operating systems and platforms. Until then, Opera is software testing and must be purchased after the trial period ends. Version 5.0 (released in 2000) is a trialware version of the latter. After that, Opera is sponsored by ads, show ads to users who pay for it. [13] The next Opera version gives the user the option to see banner ads or targeted text advertisements from Google. At version 8.5 (released in 2005) ad has been removed entirely and primary financial support for the Opera comes via Google (with a contract for Google as a search engine for Opera). In version 9.1 (released in 2006), new features are introduced is protective of fraud (fraud protection) which uses technology from GeoTrust, a digital certificate provider, and PhishTank, an organization can keep track of known phishing websites. This feature is enhanced and developed in version 9.5, when GeoTrust was replaced with Netcraft, and malware protection from Haute Secure was added.
In 2006, Opera created and released for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii. Opera for Wii, called the Internet channel, released April 12, 2007 and is free to download until June 30, 2007. After that date, the user has to pay 500 Wii Points (about 5 U.S. $) for download. On 2 September 2009, Opera back for free download. Users who previously paid for the download, offered NES game of their choice with the same value. In the Nintendo DS Browser, Opera is not free, but sold as a physical DS game cartridge. DSi has an Internet point which can be downloaded for free from the DSi shop. A new JavaScript engine called Carakan, named after the Javanese script, shown in the 10:50 version. According to Opera Software, Carakan seven times faster in SunSpider than Opera 10:10 by Futhark on Windows. It also, more or less confirmed by other parties after the official pre-alpha release in December 2009. Also introduced Opera's vector graphics library called Vega, which is capable of handling all translation / rendering browser. This allows translation platform specific code, so the code into the appropriate code for Vega, thus making it easier to manage the entire platform. It helps the Opera implementation to use advanced CSS3 properties, such as the background and borders, and also enables hardware acceleration with optional OpenGL and Direct3D backends. In the first release of Opera 10:50, the version originally intended for Windows only. Then, Opera for the Mac version comes in 10:50. The latest version of Opera, which is 10.60, released in early July 2010.
No comments:
Post a Comment