This page collates press articles on Opera.
"We should be able to do more," he said. "We have a smaller, faster, more feature-rich browser." Not just better than Microsoft's archaic Internet Explorer. Von Tetzchner says his company's Opera browser beats the stuffing out of Firefox as well.
It's hard to disagree after spending a little time with Opera 8, the newest version of his browser. It's fast, flashy, and crammed with features offered by no other browser.
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Still, Opera includes all kinds of neat features, the most impressive being page zoom and the most promising being voice command. Even in this world of free browsers, the $39 price is well worth it.
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Although Opera is characteristically keen on talking about security, and has added a security information field that makes the security level of the sites you're browsing more obviously visible, one of the more striking features of the new version is the browser's display capabilities.
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More than 10,000 downloads of the new version of Opera reportedly were recorded in the first 30 minutes of the software being made available.
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As before, bookmarks can be either a single page or a group of tabbed pages. Also as before, the browser keeps track of the top ten sites that you've visited, but you can now access them quickly via a link off the toolbar. A drop-down menu to the right of the location bar allows you to zoom in or out on any page, and pages can be squeezed into a narrow column that will reformat to fit. The only way to get this functionality in another browser is via a plug-in, and we found that Opera zooms pages more accurately than any Firefox plug-in.
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Opera is still a very good Web browser and, with the April release of Opera 8.0, Opera Software ASA shows that it's still clearly No. 1 when it comes to Web browser innovation. Many of the standard features found in the current generation of browsers, such as cookie management and tabbed browsing, were introduced in the Opera browser.
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