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History of Opera - Best browser for mobile phones


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Opera is certainly the best browser among those currently available for mobile phones .In this resource I had discussed the history of opera.


Opera is certainly the best browser among those currently available for mobile phones .In this resource I had discussed the history of opera.

When opera started


Opera is one of the fastest and lightest browsers currently available. It was started in 1994 as a research project in Telenor,a telecom company of Norway. On July 14th 1994 opera was launched for general public by its cofounder Jon von Tetzchner.
Opera has some unique browsing features like
a.Page zoom
b.Mouse Gestures
c.Multi document interface browsing environment

Various versions of Opera



Opera series 1 known as MultiTorg opera was not available for the public, and was used for telenor intranet. However Opera series 2 was available for general public too. Series 3 was a huge success worldwide.

Opera 4 was released in March 2000 and it supported CSS2, CSS1, HTML4, XML and WML.This version had an integrated e-mail client available too. Opera series 4 got a mixed response has it had some bugs too. Opera series 5 became quite popular because of features like Mouse gestures, instant messaging and an integrated search.

Opera 6 had new features like Unicode support and new SDI /MDI interface
Opera 7 was released in 2003 and was known as Presto. New feature included in this version were fast forward, notes and slideshow etc. It also had M2 , a news and mail client ,a RSS news reader and an IRC chat client .
Opera 8 was released in 2005 which became very popular for its innovative features and is the most commonly used web browser in mobile phones.
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