Today, Elina is sharing a slightly different kind of blog post with you, about the adventure she’s having in Peru. Before we start, I must give credit to my co-author of this post and my dearest companion for the past few weeks – Isbjørn, The Polar Bear. Yet, he is no ordinary bear. He is curious,...
At the Google Progressive Web Apps after-party last night, I had two very different conversations within five minutes of each other. Conversation #1 went: “Hey, Bruce! Lucky you weren’t at the REDACTED conference last week. They were bad-mouthing Opera! One speaker said, ‘Anyway, who cares about Opera Mini?’” In the time it took to drink...
Do you still remember your first mobile phone? Not your first smartphone. Well, for many of us it might have been a smartphone. But for the rest, it was a basic phone with a keypad. Was it the size of a brick? Did it have a camera? Before the world started rushing into smartphones with...
We are always looking at ways to share our web expertise with more of you. So, we recently launched a blog for our German fans. Hooray! At the same time, we added a new addition to our team of Opera bloggers. Meet Rosi. She’s from Germany, loves sneakers with bold designs and sings in a...
At Opera, we do everything we can to make the web leaner and smaller, so you can get the content you want faster and use less of your precious data. So, it’s with enormous pride that I saw Safari announce yesterday that it will be joining the other major browsers (Opera, Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft...
If you follow Opera on Twitter or Facebook, you might have already heard of Ruth. She’s one of our social-media ninjas, dedicated to answering all your questions and passing your feedback to our product teams. By now, you know that Ruth is a) not a robot b) super quick in answering and c) helpful and...
Last week, we released the new developer version of Opera for computers with the ad-blocking feature on board. If you enable it, you can speed up webpage loading times by up to 90%. At Opera, we are used to massive downloads and lots of feedback, but since we launched this latest version, we were truly...