About The Red O
The Red O preserves the Presto-era work of Opera Software: browsers, add-ons, services and the people behind them.
Why
When Opera moved to Chromium in 2013, the Presto era quietly disappeared: download servers were cleaned up, widgets.opera.com, unite.opera.com and My Opera closed, addons.opera.com dropped its skins, themes and extensions for Presto, and with them went thousands of add-ons made by the community. This project gathers what survived, from Opera's FTP server, the Internet Archive and personal collections, and puts it back online.
What's in the archive
Browsers
- Opera for Windows: 156 builds, 1.00 to 12.18
- Opera for Mac: 94 builds, 5.00 to 12.16
- Opera for Linux: 93 builds, 5.00 to 12.16
- Opera for FreeBSD: 89 builds, 6.10 to 12.16
- Opera for Solaris: 55 builds, 5.00 to 10.11
- Opera for BeOS: 4 builds, 3.60 beta to 3.62
- Opera for OS/2: 1 build, 5.12
- Opera for QNX: 3 builds, 6.00 beta to 6.01 beta 1
- Opera Mobile, Symbian S60: 69 files
- Opera Mobile, Symbian UIQ (Sony Ericsson P800, P900…): 7 files
- Opera Mobile, Windows Mobile: 71 files
- Opera Mobile, Android: 17 files
- Opera Mobile, MeeGo: 6 files
- Opera Mini, Java phones (J2ME): 234 files
- Opera Mini, Android: 4 files
- Opera for Psion & EPOC: 12 files
- Opera Mobile Emulator: 20 files
- Opera for TV & set-top boxes, Opera TV Emulator: 8 files
- Opera for TV & set-top boxes, Content Development Kit: 3 files
- Internet tablets & other devices, WeTab: 1 file
Add-ons
- Skins: 939 recovered out of 1,198 known
- Themes: 220 recovered out of 800 known
- Extensions: 1,767 recovered out of 1,776 known
- Widgets: 834 recovered out of 2,284 known
- Unite applications: 51 recovered out of 56 known
Writing
- Dev.Opera: 804 articles
- Opera Labs: 40 articles
- Desktop Team blog: 518 articles
- Help for Opera for computers: 119 pages
- Help for Opera Mini: 8 pages
- Help for Opera Mobile: 9 pages
How it was made
Installers come from a complete mirror of Opera's FTP server, made while it was still online, and from the community's 30th anniversary archive for the oldest versions. Pages, add-ons, screenshots and articles were recovered from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, capture by capture, then checked one by one: when a file was missing on one site, other copies were searched on mirrors, fan sites and personal collections.
Only the Presto era is published here: nothing released after 2013, except the last security updates of Opera 12. Files are offered exactly as they were published, with their original names.
Sources
Every item links back to its source: Opera's FTP server, the Wayback Machine capture it was recovered from, or the archive that kept it. Dates and facts in the texts are checked against Opera's own version history, its press releases and company pages, and the Desktop Team blog.
Contribute
Do you have an old skin, widget, extension, Unite application or installer we are missing? Screenshots, documentation, memories? Get in touch.
Legal
The Red O is a non-commercial preservation project, not affiliated with Opera Norway AS. Opera, the Opera logo and other marks belong to their owners. Archived files are provided for historical and research purposes; if you are a rights holder and want something removed, please contact us.