The web browser you choose matters more than you think: it shapes privacy, performance, productivity and — increasingly — how AI and platform services interact with everything you do online. A recent roundup of four standout alternatives intentionally omits Google Chrome and makes a strong case...
Hey everyone, quick question about the Opera browser on my Windows 11 Pro PC. I’ve been using it for years without any issues, but today it suddenly froze up, and nothing I do seems to fix it. I’ve run malware scans and tried a bunch of different things, but no luck. I’m stumped. Does anyone...
I switched my default browser from Chrome to Opera and, after a week of real work, found myself missing a handful of built‑in conveniences that made daily browsing significantly faster and less cluttered—features that in Chrome require extensions, workarounds, or simply don’t exist in the same...
Microsoft once again finds itself under the regulatory spotlight, this time in Brazil, where Opera Software has triggered an antitrust investigation by the country’s competition authority, CADE. At issue are old grievances in a new world: the perennial claim that Microsoft leverages its Windows...
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For more than two decades, the web browser market has been marked by fierce competition, regulatory scrutiny, and recurring debates over fair play—ultimately shaping how billions interact with the internet. The latest development in this long-running saga is the recent complaint filed by Opera...
Opera Software has initiated an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in Brazil, alleging that the tech giant's practices with its Edge browser on Windows 11 are stifling competition. This legal action underscores ongoing concerns about Microsoft's influence in the web browser market and its...
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The past week in tech has been crowded with advancements—some long-awaited, others carrying a sense of urgency—and pushes the digital world a little further, for better and worse. From Microsoft Edge’s new direction on mobile to deepening concerns about browser security exploits, these...
Opera’s latest leap forward, version 120, brings a wave of long-demanded features and subtle refinements that could reshape how users approach everyday browsing. With a freshly integrated translation tool, major upgrades to split screen functionality, improvements to key utilities, and a revived...
In May 2025, a critical security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-5283 was discovered in the libvpx library, a widely used open-source video codec developed by Google and the Alliance for Open Media. This vulnerability, classified as a "use after free" flaw, poses significant risks to users...
Hello. I have windows xp sp3 with last updates. Today, I tried to download a png-image with google chrome.
But it told me that it didn't have enough permissions. I tried to disable firewall and antivirus. All was without any change. Afterwards, I tried it with Opera-brouser. But nothing change...
While running updates, after the first series were installed, it complained that it couldn't use IE 6 for updating any longer, and led me to a download page for IE 8, since it said that IE 9 wasn't compatible with XP. So I downloaded and installed IE 8, but afterward checking in it's About...
Im getting this error message everytime I try to reinstall my itunes or uninstall my quicktime. This all started cause my itunes stopped working, whenever I would try to open my itunes it would pop up with that same message so i decided to uninstall it which it worked but then i couldnt install...
First off, for some reason I can't load this page properly on Opera browser, everything seems to be loaded but when i put my cursor in either the Title or Body box to start typing my message, it doesn't work, and it's not lag either, it's like as if a script or something is blocking it, sort of...
:frown:I'm running Eval copy 7100 and I needed to restore to an earlier point as the system was running very slow. It turned out to be Opera 10. I've gone back to 9.64 and that seems to have fixed it
However. I assumed that restore points would have been set automatically from when I installed...