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).
Other Features include:
- Speed Dial allowing fast access to favorite Web sites
- Opera Turbo - compresses Web pages via Opera's servers
- 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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Opera also features in our 'Linux
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