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Opera

Opera is a popular graphical web browser and Internet suite which lets you surf web sites, send and receive e-mails, manage contacts, download BitTorrents, read newsfeeds, and chat online.

Opera eliminates sluggish performance, HTML standard violations, desktop domination, and instability.

Opera supports all major Web standards currently in use.

Opera supports HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 with persisent connections, cache control, basic authentication, resume download, SSL version 3 / TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support, proxy for HTTP, FTP, Gopher and WAIS. It features 256 bit encryption, for HTTP (web), NNTP (news), POP and SMTP (email).

Opera 9.62

Price
Free to download
Size
~8.5 MB
License
Proprietary
Developer
Opera Software

Website
www.opera.com

System Requirements
Standard C++ Library
X11R6.3+ implementation

Support Sites:
Opera Tutorials, Forums, Mailing lists

Selected Reviews:
Gomeler, Opera Watch, Softpedia, blogspot

Other Features include:

Speed Dial allowing fast access to favorite Web sites
Content and Pop-up blocker to remove ads or images, 256-bit encryption, Security bar, Cookie control
Widgets, small web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games etc)
Thumbnail Preview
Fraud Protection
Transfer manager showing download progress
Password manager remembering your usernames and passwords for web sites
Tabbed browsing
Integrated search
Sessions where a collection of tabs can be saved for later retieval
Opera mail, a built-in POP/IMAP E-mail client with news reader, mailing list organizer, and RSS/Atom newsfeed reader
IRC chat client
BitTorrent support built-in
Skins so that the browser has a customizable appearence
Accessibility features
Full-screen mode
Kiosk mode (a lock-down mode for unattended computers in public places)
Unicode support
Support for bidirectional text
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support
Raster Graphics (GIF89a, JPEG, BMP, ICO, WBMP, and PNG)
Advanced security features which screen websites downloading spyware or “phishing” for your personal data and pop-up blocker
Tabbed browsing allowing multiple web pages to be open in the same browser window
Spell checker
Live Bookmarks lets you view Web feeds such as news or blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or menu
Incremental find
Integrated download manager
Search system with drop down list of suggestions (works for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com)
Built in session restore, allowing you to return to the position when Firefox was last closed.
Web Fees (RSS) integration allowing users to add RSS feeds to popular RSS readers with a click of the mouse.
Support for DHTML accessibility
Automated updates
Highly extensible with a huge library of themes and extensions. Extensions add a additional functionality to Firefox, allowing users to do such things as screen captures, gather RSS feeds and organize information among other things. Includes Add-ons Manager and a Search Engine Manager
Support for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and XHTML Modularization, XHTML 1.1, XHTML Basic, OMA XHTML Mobile Profile, XHTML+Voice profile 1.2, WML 1.3 and 2.0, Widget support, XML, XSL 1.0, XPath 1.0 and XSL-FO, XML namespaces, XML Events, CSS Level 1, 2, and 2.1, CSS Mobile Profile, WAP CSS, ECMAScript, DOM, DOM2 Core, DOM 2 HTML, DOM 2 Events, DOM 2 Style, DOM 2 Range, DOM 2 Traversal, DOM 3 Load and Save, DOM 3 XPath, XMLHTTPRequest, Canvas, and experimental support for Web Forms 2.0

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