Opera, The advanced web browser
There were times when we used to use browser for browsing Internet, checking mails and saving our favorite sites in favorite folders. There used to be minimal options in the web browser, which you can easily find in any windows application.
Do we really want only these capabilities from the browser, or do we have growing need with the modern culture and with the computer industry revolution. I think we do want it, now we don’t just want to browse using the web browser, we also want the web browser to be safe, secure, easy to navigate, free of charge, tabbed browsing and hassle free browsing.
I am going to talk about “Opera 9” as I personally feel Opera has added a great deal of new features with the new launch. With Mozilla Firefox you must have experienced tabbed, secured, integrated browsing. Mozilla is a free web browser so do Opera 9. Opera 9 has the same features of tabbed, secured and integrated browsing, but it has some additional and unique feature, which, no other browser has.
You can get Opera on your Nintendo; you can get mini Opera for your mobile phone and advanced Opera for advanced mobiles.
One of the features of Opera 9 is “Speed Dial”. Whenever you open a new tab the speed dial feature appear. I have seen speed dial in my mobile, where important number with the speed dial feature and whenever I want those important or emergency numbers, I dial the location of the number, for example if I have stored “100” which is police department number at “1”, I dial 1 and then press call and I can call police immediately. I don’t have to dial 100 to call the police. I think that is the reason why Opera has named it speed dial as they are using the same technique here.
With every tab’s launch, speed dial feature is enabled. If you want to store any web address you just have to drag and drop into the slot. If next time you want that web site to get downloaded you just have to click on the slot and there your site is. In case you don’t have to click on the slot, then just type the slot number of the site in the address field and the site will get downloaded. If you click on the refresh button, all the slots will get refreshed.
Opera also provides fraud protection. There are instances when you get fraudulent mails, which seem genuine. You go to these pages thinking that they are genuine and end up giving private information or the important information to these sites. For the secrecy of the customers, the web browser provides fraud protection beside the web address field. If the browser does not verify some sites, it will show a question mark. When you click on the question mark, it tells that the site is not verified and you can enable the option for automatically verifying the site. When the next time you open the page it comes with an “I” which shows that the site has been verified by the browser.
Like these features, Opera 9 comes with a bundle of new and unique features. Some of the features which I found useful were bitTorrent, pop-up blocker, Fast forward, Notes, quick preferences, Voice, fraud protection, different skins, can be opened in different languages, Full screen mode, kiosk mode only for information other settings are grayed out, importing favorites from different browsers, if you have multiple browsers, Opera email and chat.
“Notes” is one of the features of Opera. You must have used note pad, which is a windows application. In this application we store the information and save it or we can note down the information just for our reference and close the document while exiting. Opera “Notes” is one of the advanced notepad, where you store not just information but the link is also stored and when you open the notes for your reference you can not only see the contents but also the website where u have visited to load those contents. If you like, you can send these notes to yours friend with the Opera mail feature. Creating an Opera mail is simple and easy.
Another feature of opera is to import the favorites or bookmarks of other browsers to Opera. This is a very important feature if you want to use Opera for the whole life. You don’t have to get rid of your favorites if you have planned to discontinue other browsers and continue with Opera 9.
In addition to these features Opera also provides blogging, picture sharing, groups, and discussion forums options. Now you don’t have to go to other sites to do all these things, you can do every thing on the same site, which is also your browser, and also a free easy to use site.
