If you were asked what key existing browsers, Opera would you cite? Not sure. However, Opera is one of the oldest software in its category.

Published by the Norwegian company Opera Software, the browser has never failed assets: especially light in its first versions, it has mainly revealed, over time, highly innovative.

It has taken almost every speed competition with, for example, shortcuts to the mouse gestures, voice commands, support for BitTorrent, widgets … But Leaded by the mandatory posting a banner up the release of version 8.5 in 2005, the browser never managed to get a comfortable market share.

Its revival, he owes in part to additional software, Opera Mini, a version developed specifically for mobile devices and game consoles all, it’s Opera Software, which is the source of the complaint against Microsoft with European Commission and led to the establishment of “ballot screen.

This is to provide automatically through Windows Update, change the default browser. Of the twelve proposed browsers, Opera is one of five immediately visible on the screen of choice. This is a good opportunity to find out. And just icing on the cake – not necessarily coincidental – Opera just released version 10.5 of its browser. The program, speed and always foolproof innovation.