Opera 9 Is Music to eWEEK Labs’ Ears

The Opera browser. It’s not open source or even as popular as the Firefox browser. Nevertheless they are trying to broaden their appeal by making themselves available to the Linux crowd as well as to other OS’.

Review: Opera Software’s browser continues to innovate, with enviable search customization and improvements to management and configuration options.

Just like people, software providers are followers or leaders. Some are cautious about real innovation, always reluctant to try out new things, while others are constantly seeking ways to improve their products and to innovate in their technology areas.

An excellent example of the latter is Opera Software, with its eponymously named Web browser. Opera was the first to offer many of the browser features that we commonly use today, such as tabbed browsing and cookie management.

This trend carried on in last year’s Opera 8, which eWEEK Labs lauded for providing innovative features such as phishing prevention tools and site security checks. These features are now being added to competing Web browsers…. Source: eWeek

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