For fans looking to glimpse the future, Opera this morning released Opera Next, a stand-alone installation of the Opera 11.50 alpha, codenamed Swordfish. Among other things, the update brings hardware ...

WebGL graphics is a highlight of the new alpha build of Opera, but the browser also can accelerate 2D graphics, text, and CSS effects--often on Windows XP. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Google's mobile operating system is a match made in heaven for the Norwegian browser company. Also coming: hardware acceleration for mobile, desktop. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

What the Opera browser lacks in market domination on the desktop, it makes up for in innovation, like being the first to offer a tabbed interface and built-in search. Eschewing the frequent upgrades ...

The latest edition of the Opera browser, Opera 21, is now available for Windows and Mac. Chief among the many changes, tweaks, and updates is hardware acceleration via Aura technology. Aura “allows us ...

OSLO, Norway--Opera Software took the hardware acceleration plunge today with the release of its first alpha version of Opera 12, code-named Wahoo. Hardware acceleration offers a range of benefits to ...

Opera Software on Tuesday released Opera 11.6, an interim build to tide over users while the company continues to work on Version 12 and its hardware acceleration. Opera 11.6 features a new HTML ...

The latest version of the Opera browser launched this week, featuring support for “Aura,” a way to accelerate the entire browser experience using your PC’s graphics card. In fact, since Opera and ...

Forget all that Mini stuff, Opera is bringing its full-flavored mobile browser to Android some time very soon indeed. To tempt people on board, the new software will support hardware acceleration for ...

Opera has today announced that their new Opera 12 browser, when launched, will bring with it a major graphics-hardware boost. The new hardware acceleration will specifically affect the rendering of ...

Opera Mobile is finally coming to Android. I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while now, for one reason alone: the UI. I believe Opera Mini has the best UI and the most polished one by far. It’s ...