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Opera
Opera 2015 icon.svg
Developer(s) Opera Software
Initial release April 1995; 28 years ago (1995-04)
Stable release 15.0.1147.141  (July 10, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-07-10))
Preview release
Next

19.0.1326.26  (January 8, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-01-08))

Developer
20.0.1380.1  (January 13, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-01-13))
Written in C++
Operating system FreeBSD
Linux
Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows
Solaris until v. 10.11
Available in 56 languages
Type Web browser and Internet suite
License Proprietary freeware with open source components

Opera is a web browser that formerly included e-mail, webfeed reader, and IRC Chat. There are versions available for several operating systems. These include Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux. There are also version for mobile phones, personal digital assistants, game consoles, and interactive televisions.

Opera is developed by Opera Software which is based in Oslo, Norway.

History

Opera was created in 1994 at Telenor, which is Norway's largest telecommunications company. In 1995, Opera became its own company called Opera Software ASA.

Opera was first released publicly with version 2.0 in 1996, which only ran on Microsoft Windows. With the release of Opera 4.0 in the year 2000, other operating systems were supported.

Features

  • Security: Opera helps protect against computer viruses. When accessing a certain page opera will warn the user beforehand that the site may impose a threat to their computer. The user can decide to open the web page or not.
  • Tabs: Users can save an unlimited number of tabs on their computer, so the next time that the users utilized their PC the pages will still be there. The order of the tabs can be changed, by dragging and dropping them in their needed location.
  • Blocking: Users can block unwanted spam and pop ups, and the blocking features allow the individual to inactivate certain elements.
  • Resizing: Users can use the zoom button to change the size of the text on the screen, also the ‘Fit to Width’ button is available to change the size of the web page to evade horizontal scrolling.

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See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Opera (navegador) para niños

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