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Hi there! Its time for another longish edition of Opera Bytes. I shall take you through all the hot news and scoops from world of Opera. Yesterday, Johan Borg posted a rather poetic update in the Desktop Team Blog, regarding the future of Opera. Of course, like everything coming from Opera Soft. Developers, it was [...]

One of my major grudges with Windows Vista has been the way it’s start menu works. I am someone who regularly arranges the start menu entry into folder and subfolders. In this way, in spite of having a large number of applications instaled, whenever I want to launch a program I know exactly where to [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about racism in a reality tv-show. Today, I will discuss some of the things that has been happening in the cricketing world. South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs came under fire during the first test match against Pakistan for using racial slur against Pakistani supporters. He was reportedly heard saying that “Pakistani supporters [...]

Shilpa Shetty faces bullying and racism in Big Brother House

As I mentioned in my previous blogpost, couple of days ago Opera and iDefence lab announced that opera v9.x suffered from two highly critical vulnerabilities. Both of them have been patched in the latest release v9.1. However, the timing of the announcement has created a fair amount of controversy. Today I read Asa Dotzler’s blogpost [...]

It’s time again for some Opera stuff. There is some good news for Opera fans. According to Market Share opera’s market share has increased from 0.52% in the beginning of the year to 0.87% in December. It’s currently in 4rth position; well behind Internet Explorer (79.64%), Mozilla Firefox (14% – which is an increase of [...]