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A first peek at Opera 15 for Computers

May 28, 2013 · by Bruce Lawson · 113 comments

Hurrah! Hot on the heels of the release of Opera 14 for Android (based on Chromium 26), here's a first peek at our all new Opera for Computers. It's called Opera Next 15 and it's based on Chromium 28 — which means that it comes with Blink on board — but as…

Opera 14 for Android is out!

May 21, 2013 · by Andreas Bovens · 50 comments

Yay, and — dare I say it — w00t! Opera 14 for Android is released!

Opera's WebKit patches

March 22, 2013 · by Bruce Lawson · 39 comments

About five weeks ago, we announced that Opera's products would transition to using WebKit. We said "Opera will contribute to the WebKit and Chromium projects. Our work on web standards to advance the web continues."

Opera 14 beta for Android is out

March 5, 2013 · by Andreas Bovens · 63 comments

Yes, that's right: 14. We think that the engine switch from Presto to WebKit that we announced a few weeks ago is such a big step that we decided to skip the 13 number altogether, and go straight to 14! But there's more than just the engine to talk about:…

300 million users and move to WebKit

February 12, 2013 · by Bruce Lawson · 515 comments

On the same day as announcing that Opera has 300 million users, we're also announcing that for all new products Opera will use WebKit as its rendering engine and V8 as its JavaScript engine. It's built using the open-source Chromium browser as one of its…

A simple survey of screen sizes

January 17, 2013 · by Daniel Davis · 19 comments

I got a bit frustrated the other day. I'd come across yet another site that was designed for at least a 1280-width screen, meaning it wouldn't fit on my trusty 1024-width laptop and I had to scroll horizontally. "Yada yada, first world problems", I hear you…