The Norwegian Opera

About Opera

Opera Software AS is an industry leader in the development of Web browsers for the desktop and device markets. The Opera browser (known as "the third browser", after Internet Explorer and Netscape) has been developed over a period of 5 years and has received international acclaim from end-users and the industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers.

On December the 6th 2000, Opera 5.0 entered the market with the intent on winning shares in the browser war. Opera will be distributed on millions of CDs accompanying computer magazines around the world, as well as by other software makers and some of the Internet's major Web sites.

Is it Free?

Until now Opera has been charging users $39 per license. Opera 5.0 is now sponsor-supported with a fixed advertising banner in the browser UI. If you want to turn the ads off, you have to pay for it.

"The ad-feature will not slow Opera down, nor diminish the Internet experience" says Hakon Lie, Chief Technology Officer, Opera Software, "The banner-sized ad is quite small, and they are downloaded into the browser only once a week, to be cached for later use. This ensures the recognizable Opera-speed in the browsing itself, as well as not too intrusive ads. Also, every necessary precaution has been taken to ensure privacy," he ends.

Powerful Opera Features

Opera offers several benefits for a better Internet experience:

• Fast rendering of pages. Opera is the fastest full-featured browser on the market today.
• Easy keyboard navigation. Opera's easy keyboard shortcuts save time as well as benefit people with disabilities.
• Instant toggling of image and documents settings. For even faster browsing, images can be turned on/off with just the press of a key.
• Multiple windows support. Inside Opera, users may browse in several windows at once, without straining system resources.
• High quality Zooming. Opera users can zoom in on a page up to a 1000%, be it text or images.
• Resume download. In the transfer window, downloads can be resumed if interrupted.
• Small size. Opera is only a 1.95 MB download (Adding Java is a one-time 7 MB download) so updating to the latest version available is always fast and easy.
• Integrated news, mail, search and Instant Messaging. New in the 5.0 version is a powerful search capability, as well as an Instant Messaging client. In the search feature, users can easily migrate between the most popular search engines, and search for terms, domain names, music, Mp3s, images, video, audio, stock quotes, books or company information.
• The newly integrated Instant Messaging client offers users the possibility to chat with all ICQ users.

Opera is Standards Compliant

Opera 5.0 continues its commitment to the W3C standards:

• 128-bit encryption
• TLS 1.0
• SSL 2 and 3
• CSS1 and CSS2
• XML
• HTML 4.01
• HTTP 1.1
• ECMAScript
• JavaScript 1.3
• experimental support for DOM
• experimental support for WAP/ WML.

Opera has built in plug-in support. Opera supports Netscape's API, making it easy for developers to migrate between the two platforms.

Latest Release

On 19 December 2001, Opera 6.0 for Windows was released.

More about Opera

Opera Software AS is a privately held company headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

More information and download of Opera 6.0 for Windows is available at: www.opera.com.

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