Create Your Own Browser with Opera Composer

New York, NY - June 27, 2001

At PCExpo, Opera Software today launched the new Opera Composer. The Opera Composer lets users create, download and distribute their personally designed Web browser for distribution to other members of a group for free.

The Opera Composer lets users design as much or as little of the browser as they wish from the graphics on the buttons to the illustration on the start-up screen. Users can customize their own Hotlist and bookmarks, choose between including e-mail and news, and give their browser its own name. Users can spend 5 minutes and choose from pre-set options, or use a whole day and to create their own graphics and images to create a personal look.

"With the Opera Composer, Opera users can customize their browser in the way that best fits their needs," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera Software. "The Opera Composer lets everyone from local football clubs to ISPs create a customized browser that integrates their community on the Web."

Opera Composer offers any club, organization or individual the opportunity to customize their own version of Opera for free, allowing them to share their customized version with friends, colleagues, members or customers.

The Opera Composer lets users:

• add personal/special buttons to the user interface with title/URL/hover tip
• skin personalized images for toolbar and background
• personalize the browser name
• create their own splash/start-up screen
• customize Hotlist bookmarks/e-mail/contacts and 2 HTML fields
• set their own start page

To create your own, read the tutorial, and view images, please visit: composer.opera.com