Showing posts with label Opera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opera. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Opera web browser with free VPN

Firstly, VPNs can be useful for accessing your corporate network from your home although the connection can be notorious for such incompetency as times like slow bandwidth, difficult networking connectivity using VPN or some kind and most of the VPN services you want to use for your own may cost monthly money. It appears that the companies running the VPN services may need the money from the users but having monthly cost is already attracting mixed opinion from people.
Unfortunately, the VPNs can be used for such negative purposes as well as if you can bypass the regional restrictions like trying to gain access to certain foreign contents you want. It can probably mean forging or falsification of some parts of your personal information as if you think you're from some foreign country that you try to use VPNs as an excuse to gain access that way. For me, I don't use VPN for this shit because such negative purpose like bypassing that restriction can obviously land you in trouble if you're found out.
As secure as such VPNs can be, there may be fears that bad guys may use them for the sake of whatever dark operation they want without being detected. And for Opera web browser version 40 onwards, there will be less guarantees to enable the shit out of the VPN feature straightaway like that.

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Opera web browser to have its own Ad-Blocker tool

Like Firefox having its own protection in Tracking Protection mode which is equivalent to various add-ons like Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, etc., the newer versions of Opera web browser will have the browser's own Ad-blocking tool so that there's no reason for you to get an Ad-blocking add-on instead. However, there's one downside on having the internal Ad-block tool as part of the web browser, some of the websites will require that you turn off Ad-blocking or you won't be allowed to browse them that you may need another web browser for standby. An external Ad-blocking add-on like uBlock Origin should do the same job in blocking ads but thankfully, there's a way to turn off the internal Ad-blocking tool when necessary on some web sites in Opera web browser.
Unfortunately, it appears that Opera is already on life support at the present time like there's another web browser on the way by former Opera developers as well as the fact that better solutions like uBlock Origin can do the job without being resource hogs.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Opera Mini for Tizen-based Samsung Gear S

What the hell, a web browser for the smartwatch? This is something that should not exist. It's ridiculous to surf the net on the watch or even the calculator itself. Of course, the watches are having the small screen and it's kind of impossible to see everything on the page at once. In fact, there's even the Galaxy App Store for the Samsung smartwatches running Tizen OS which is the great move that improves the performance of the smartwatches since running Android on them took up so much resources for some secret reasons.
Opera Mini is known for low data usage and fast page loading processes and it has been in various mobile devices as well. You can access the favorite links and social networks with this version but how can this fit in the small devices like the smartwatches? No matter how wide the screen is, it's sort of like using the colored cellphones with internet access of the past.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Opera Mini for Windows Phone & Nokia X2 having Google services

As Nokia was purchased by Microsoft, anything related to Nokia will no longer be Nokia-ish piece by piece. The Nokia Windows Phones have the Nokia Xpress browser in addition to Internet Explorer and that Opera Mini will be the replacement. Also, it seems that the Nokia Android phones were done in a strange way that Microsoft added some Google services on them so that you can obtain more Android apps there while retaining Microsoft services and apps.
I don't know if the Nokia Android phones will be discontinued after various milking done by Microsoft after the acquisition while retaining the Nokia Windows Phones as the active second-party products. After all, having to support Android devices published by Microsoft such as the Nokia Android phones is a strange move like it ruins the competition for us and besides, nobody imagines Google or Apple publishing Windows PCs manufactured and developed by other companies. No! Google supports first-party and third-party Android and Chromebook devices by hardware business, not PCs or Macs. Maybe there should be a Google booth in some IT event that showcases Android and Chromebook devices but not anything else.