DOWNLOAD: Opera 11 beta 1

Introduces extensions, tab stacking, and better mouse gesture guidance.

• The address field now hides unnecessary information and puts the security status of each page front and center. Now, badges explain the security state of the site, giving consumers clear information about the sites they visit.
• Plug-ins can be set to load on-demand. This can give as much as 30 percent performance improvement.
• Extensions and Opera Unite applications are updated automatically through Opera's update mechanism.
• Even more work has been done to boost browsing speed, particularly for Linux. Opera 11 for Linux is 15 to 20 percent faster on common benchmarks than Opera 10.63.
• Bookmarks are just a click away thanks to a new bookmarks bar that replaces Opera's personal bar.
• Opera 11 is 30 percent smaller than Opera 10.63, despite including new features.

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Google Chrome 60 times faster

Google says its new Chrome version has some serious speed. Thought the limits of browser speed had already been reached? Perhaps not. Google now claims to have something even better up its sleeve.

According to its Chromium blog the version 7 of the Chrome browser could get a healthy speed boost.
Chrome already holds a strong position when it comes to speedy performance so increasing this even more could leave all other browsers in the dust.

The new technique relies on hardware acceleration and picks the best graphics API (application programming interface) for each
operating system the browser runs on.

The benefit is in significantly. improved speeds for 2D applications, Chrome developers say. Browser hardware acceleration is not entirely new and Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer already incorporate some form of hardware acceleration.

The technique passes off multimedia content on a website to the graphics processor for rendering while the browser renders the text portions of the site.

The Chrome developers say that their current developments are showing significant returns. "These early numbers show up to 60x speed improvement over the current version of Google Chrome," developers wrote on the Chromium blog. "With Google Chrome's fast release cycles, we expect to be able to get these enhancements to users quickly and add new performance
improvements over time."

The Chromium development team says that the current benefits are for 2D graphics but that they are working on 3D graphics acceleration for future releases. 3D
acceleration is the "next big thing" in browser technology. With that in place developers will be able to
create sophisticated games, gallery features, 3D visualisations and virtual environments, all in a web browser.

Chromium 7, the current development version of Chrome, is available for Windows, OS X and
Linux systems.

Google Chrome 6 available!

Google launched version 6 of it's browser Google Chrome yesterday with it's 2 year anniversary. Here is what's new:

- The new version has a simplified user interface: there's a single menu, the "go" button has been removed, the browser no longer shows "http://" in the address bar, the bookmark button has been moved to the right and the toolbar has a new color scheme.

- Chrome 6 adds support for form autofill and you can now synchronize autofill data, extensions and all their settings. Extension sync is probably the coolest new feature in Chrome 6 because you can take your extensions with you, not matter what computer your are using.

- Another new feature is the support for WebM videos. "WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web," which is already supported by software like Opera, VLC, Winamp and by YouTube.

- Some other changes:
* Chrome has a new shortcut for toggling the bookmarks bar (Ctrl+Shift+B);
* if you mouse over a link to a page that has a long URL, Chrome will show the entire address in the status bar after about 3 seconds;
* Chrome's extension manager (chrome://extensions/) links to the extension gallery pages.

Google automatically updates the browser to the new version, but you can manually check for updates by selecting "About Google Chrome" from the unified menu. If that doesn't work, download Chrome 6 from google.com/chrome

Best Mobile Apps: Opera Mini

Opera Mini is a awesome web browser for your phone! Many phones have a complicated and slow web browser that loads forever to view a website.

Opera Mini have a clean and simple, easy to use interface. You can add 9 of your favourite webpages on the homescreen, that show little windows of your sites.

It's super fast! Full websites loads in 3 seconds, even old simple phones load not more than 8 seconds.

You can view any full websites with the perfect handy Zoom In/Zoom Out function. Double touch on the screen from a touch phone or use the option on normal phones.

Browse more for less! Opera Mini cuts browsing costs, because of it's speed. And images on sites doesn't load full megabites, that's why it works out cheaper and faster.

Roundup of everything:

- Simple and easy to use
- Super Fast
- Browse more for less
- Search Google from the Google toolbar
- Add 9 favourite websites to your homescreen
- Option to set all Images off (To save even more money and get more speed)
- Set as default web browser on phone

Download Opera Mini for FREE from m.opera.com