The Meffys, reward innovation and honor the most influential players across the mobile ecosystem, and are considered the global benchmark for measuring commercial success. We’re thrilled that Opera Max, our unique data savings and management app, won the prize for ‘Innovation in Mobile First Markets.’ Opera was assessed on our sustainable and successful approach to...

Today, the Opera Max team updated our privacy mode filters by blocking apps sending requests to certain domains that are considered to be sharing users’ personal information to third parties without disclosure or the users’ consent. The Kryptowire team discovered this issue recently, and it caught lots of attention in the media and on blogs...

Twenty one years ago, two Norwegian developers started Opera Software with the vision of an open, an  affordable internet. In the mid 1990s, the view that access to the internet should be a universal right was a radical one. With less than 1% of the world online at the time, it was a pipe dream...

Here’s a better download manager for your Android. 🙂 Opera Mini is the free mobile browser that lets you monitor the progress of your downloads through a speed meter and download notifications. We’ve also added smarter search suggestions in the new version we’re rolling out today. If you haven’t tried this fast mobile browser yet,...

More than half of the top 60 Android shopping apps collect users’ personal information through trackers, a new study finds. The result is from a privacy risk assessment on Opera Max, a leading data management and data savings app for Android. The 60 most popular shopping apps were reviewed using privacy mode on this app. Another...

Did you know you have four options to save bookmarks in Opera Mini? Take a look at these features in the three-dots menu that will help organize your favorite sites: 1. Save for offline reading This option is perfect for those times when you run out of mobile data – or if you are on a...