Opera Browser

Good news, everybody! A Lifehacker article posted yesterday is all over Opera 10.50's skinning capabilities. Reader t.click's desktop sports an amazing, totally transparent skin for the Opera browser that uses Aero Glass to render virtually the entire interface.

While Google continues to paint itself as running away with the browser performance trophy, Opera keeps on redefining

During January, thousands of nominations were submitted by readers in a wide variety of categories including Best Major Desktop Browser and Best Mobile Browser for the first About.com Reader's Choice Awards.

My Opera has received a bit of overhaul lately, such as the front page caching and varnish hacking (yes, it's technical and awesome), but we've also had time to update other parts of our community service.

Facebook is now the most-visited social network on the mobile Web, according to Opera's State of the Mobile Web report. Unique users of Facebook grew more than 600% during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte, formerly the most popular social network among Opera Mini users. ...

Check out the "Opera Z1 Glass" skin by Z1-AV69. This new skin (for Opera 10.50 snapshots only) goes all out in terms of transparency effect in Opera 10.50:

The Mac team have made a lot of progress with the Cocoa migration, and here is the snapshot release to prove it! It should be a much smoother ride now….Presto have been upgraded to version 2.5.20 with improved stability and site compatibility fixes. ...

Last Friday, January 15, the German and French governments recommended that all Internet Explorer users should switch to an alternative browser. We are pleased to see the word about Opera's track record for Web browser security is spreading; Opera downloads in Germany doubled over the weekend!

Help strike a knockout for open formats! YouTube is doing some "spring cleaning" and is looking for feedback on what to fix and improve on their service. It seems that "Support HTML5 open web video with open formats" is the most popular suggestion so far.

To all the talented photographers on My Opera: We want to see who has the best winter photo! Snap a photo and enter to win an Eye-Fi Pro X2 memory card, the first wireless memory card for photographers! There are two categories you can choose to compete in:

Check out select highlights from the latest Opera Magazine! Opera goes beyond browsing in its second annual magazine. Get inside the head of famed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, solve all your Web woes with Dr. Web or read about what it takes to be Fatal1ty, the ultimate PC gamer.

Share 10GB in 10 seconds with the file sharing application. No more FTP or third party sites, it's your files on your terms!

The new year often brings with it a series of changes, some large and some small. I would like to share one change at Opera with you all. After 15 wonderful years leading Opera as its Chief Executive Officer, ...