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Opera Browser Beta For Android Boasts Redesigned UI, Webkit Engine & All-New Features

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Opera Browser Beta has just been released for Android with a totally redesigned UI, new features, and Opera’s new Webkit-based rendering engine that is supposed to improve site compatibility across the board. The browser comes bundled with further improvements and features wrapped up in a very clean interface that retains the typical Opera theme we’re accustomed to, and minimal UI elements, with a focus on gestures for navigation. Whether you're an Opera fan (like me), or are just looking for a better alternative to Android’s stock browser, you can learn all about the new Opera Browser Beta after the jump. Read More

View Song Lyrics On YouTube & Grooveshark From Nine Sources

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A lot of desktop music players support on-screen lyrics, but if you mostly listen to music on YouTube or Grooveshark, you might have little or no options for viewing song lyrics. On YouTube, channels add lyrics to within the song video's description or, at times, within the video itself, but it’s rare. YouTube Lyrics is an extension available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer that displays lyrics for the current song playing in YouTube or Grooveshark in a small popup within the respective tab. The extension searches and loads lyrics from one of nine sources that you can manage from its options page. Read More

Backup Firefox, Chrome Or Opera Profiles Locally Or On Cloud

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Most new browsers, the likes of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera are packed with a number of customization features. They provide you with options to tailor the browsing experience according to your personal requirements. However, in the event of a system wipe or crash, all customizations are lost, and if you don't have the backup of preferences and settings, you need to reconfigure the browser's settings. That’s where browser backup programs and extensions come in. Earlier, we covered browser backup application, such as Hekasoft Backup & Restore that lets you create backup of browser profiles and software. Today, we have another similar application called BrowserBackup that focuses on helping you create backups of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Chromium browsers. You can choose no compression, or a custom compression rate and save the backup, both locally and on the cloud. Moreover, the application allows you to choose the default browser profile, or manually select the data and profile folders containing your saved browser data. Read More

Open IT Online Integrates Popular Document & Image Viewers & Editors With Your Browser

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Have you ever had one of those instances where you really needed to open a Word document, but didn’t want to fire up Microsoft Office and waste precious system resources? Or did you experience events when you wanted to edit an image but had no desire to install Photoshop or any specific software? Open IT Online, an extension/add-on for all major browsers, does it all for you! This utility enables you to open and edit your files in the browser window, as opposed to downloading the file and opening it via an external application. Open IT Online Lite integrates Google Docs Viewer, Zoho, View Docs Online and Vuzit for documents, and Pixlr, Sumo Paint, Picnik and Snipshot for images. You no longer need to have any software installed to view and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations etc, or to edit any image. Read More

Switch: Transfer All Tabs In Current Window To Another Browser [Mac]

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We’ve covered quite a few extensions that allow you to send your currently open tabs from one browser to another. These extensions, although not for the general web surfer, are nonetheless useful for developers and designers who need to check how their developments are rendered across different browsers. The slight drawback with these extensions is that not all browsers have one such extension available, not all extensions work the same, and you might have compatibility issues if any one of the browsers is updated. Switch is a free Mac app that goes above and beyond all this, (literally - it sits in the Menu bar) and allows you to send all open tabs in the current window to anyone of the browsers that you have installed. Read More

What Causes Web Browser Loyalty & Browser Betrayal In People?

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Some common questions that can stir up a war in the most peaceful of situations are; iPhone or Android? Mac or Windows? Cats or Dogs? Why do these simple and harmless questions cause us to argue as if the life of a loved one depends on us being right and the other person being wrong? Possibly because it is our conviction that we’re using the best product there is. Something very similar happens if you try and tell someone they use an inferior web browser and that they should switch over to a better one aka the one you use. This post discusses what might be going on in a person’s head when they choose to stick to a web browser. People have been known to switch browsers and if you’ve been following recent stats, you’ll know that Chrome has beaten Firefox and that Internet Explorer is losing its user base. The question is what makes a person switch from one browser to another and what earns a browser a user’s loyalty? Read More

Social Fixer: Modify Facebook Layout, Add Themes & Manage Chat Bar [Web]

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Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, with millions of users. Recently, Facebook has gone through a number of changes in its layout, and not everyone is happy with them, including myself. The most annoying and complained-about feature is the News Ticker, which continuously refreshes with a stream of updates from your friends. One thing I know for sure is that, lots of users would still prefer to go back to the old interface. Social Fixer, a web browser extension available for Chrome , Firefox, Opera and Safari, allows you to totally modify Facebook according to your preferences. You can modify your chat, add themes, hide & filter posts, customize the layout and much more. It has a massive collection of options that you can choose from. You will find 11 main groups, each consisting of multiple options. These include Popular, Layout, Posts, Display, Hidden Items, Chat, Theme, Filtering, Advanced, Styles (CSS) and User Preferences. Read More

Download Any Song From SoundCloud With Soundcloud Super +2 User Script

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SoundCloud is a great place for listening to songs, as you can find both popular tracks and seemingly obscure ones, too. It’s also a great place to share your music with friends, see what they’re listening to, and join groups that have similar taste in music. Soundcloud Super +2 is a user script that adds two more features to this service; it gives you recommendations as to which songs are good, and allows you to download any song you want in MP3 format. The script is available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera, and adds the features within the SoundCloud interface. Read More

Pros And Cons Of Using The New Firefox 4, Chrome 11, IE9 And Opera 11

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The recent browser wars between internet titans like Microsoft, Google and Mozilla has left users out in the cold. While these giant companies compete to upgrade their browsers to meet the latest technology requirements, they seem to be leaving their end users in a mess with lots of browser compatibility problems. If the Firefox 4 beta was not frustrating enough, the so called stable version has its own set of issues. Likewise, despite the fact that Internet Explorer 9 has received more than 10 million downloads, yet it requires being fast tracked to meet the user habits changed by Firefox and Chrome extensions. Even the light weight Opera seems to be following the Beta disaster of Firefox 4 by alienating its market niche of legacy hardware users. In this post, we will take a look at the pros and cons of using these browsers and provide you with a comparison of the advantages and possible issues you may face by using them. Read More

How To Disable YouTube Advertisements In Firefox, Chrome And Opera

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We have all come across the annoying advertisements that pop-up while we are watching a video on You Tube. It is obviously far more convenient to simply block these annoying advertisements by default rather than having to cross them out each time they appear. Following are the extensionsfor Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera that will help you get rid of these irritating YouTube ads. Read More

Download Opera Mini 5.1 For Android OS

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Opera has always been on the forefront of the mobile browser scene since the days when Windows Mobile and Symbian were the leading smartphone platforms. For quite a while, Opera Mini has been available as probably the fastest and lightest browser for Android that doesn't compromise much on features. Though so far, it has held a beta tag. Though finally, Opera has decided to take a step further and has freed Opera Mini from its beta tag on Android OS. Currently Opera is becoming the most preferred mobile internet browser throughout the world, with approximately 61 Million unique users already using it. Read More

Export & Import Opera Settings [Backup]

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In your browsing profile, there is a wealth of important information stored which in most cases you cannot afford to lose. There are many tools out there to backup your browsing data like bookmarks, downloads, add-ons, stored information etc, but how about a tool that guarantees you the peace of  mind that you wont lose your profile with all the valuable data in it after you have decided to move it to a new location? Read More

Opera Mobile Emulator For Desktop

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Until recently if you wanted to test and debug the mobile version of the site in Opera Mobile, the only way was to get a phone with Opera Mobile installed. Opera Mobile turned out to be a huge success on the iPhone topping the Apple AppStore in all countries simultaneously, but not everyone has the iPhone or Android handsets to check their site’s compatibility. Read More

An Online Backup System To Manage Yourself? Use Opera

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Since the latest 10.10 alpha/beta releases (an unofficial release candidate is already there), Opera's desktop browser supports integrated applications/services that make the browser into a personal music player, a media streaming server, online web-RSS reader, scratch pad, proxy server or whatever you want, anywhere. Basically your web browser is now a web server. The great potential this has is shown by the latest Opera Unite application of the week: Document Sync. Read More

Quick Launch Browsers From Windows 7 Jump List – Browser Chooser

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Brower Chooster has been well covered around the blogosphere. For those who don’t know, it allow users to open link in the selected browser. In the latest release, the author has finally added support for Windows 7 JumpList. Now you can pin the program to the taskbar and launch the desired browser in just 2 clicks. First of all you need to add the browsers, you can add up to five different browsers, the most preferred are Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome. Read More

Opera 10 Final Available For Download

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Opera 10 is getting the final touches before it is officially launched in a couple of days. Opera development team is working on the final version of Opera 10 to  make it available worldwide. The final version is already available on the Opera site from where it can be downloaded. The final announcement is expected in the coming days. Opera has probably launched more versions than any other popular browsers. So you can expect a stable, more reliable, secure and sleek browsing experience with Opera 10. Read More

What Is Opera Unite And How To Use It? [Complete Review]

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What Is Opera Unite

Opera Unite is a new feature that will be included in the upcoming Opera 10 browser. It converts your web browser into a web server, so instead of only browsing the web, you can now also share files, send messages, chat live, host your own website, and much more. To understand what it is, here is a good example. Suppose you want to send your friend a large file, you will first have to upload it to some 3rd party hosting provider and then share the link with your friend. Instead, with Opera Unite you can share the file directly from your computer. In short, Opera Unite kills the need of having to upload the files to a 3rd party hosting provider and gives you full control over your content. In a similar way you can send messages, chat live, and access your friend’s music library all from within a browser. When you get full control over your content, you won’t have to follow the rules and guidelines laid down by the hosting companies anymore. Read More

What is Opera Turbo Mode And How To Enable It?

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Introduction to Opera Turbo Mode

Opera Turbo Mode is a new feature in Opera 10 Browser that allows a page to load much faster by compressing the image. When this mode is enabled, Opera’s servers will compress the images and other graphic elements from a webpage and send them to your browser, resulting in a faster load time. It is suitable for those users who are using a slow internet connection, such as dial-up or are using a crowded Wi-Fi connection.

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