Former executive Opera Software Jon von Tetchner developed a new browser to “engine” Chromium.

Tetchner left the company in 2011 because of disagreements with shareholders on the topic of further development of the browser Opera, having decided to create your own software product. New yet available only in test mode, and its main difference from other browsers is advanced work with tabs: Vivaldi support the launch with several tabs, their grouping, bookmark manager and downloads, and more.

Vivaldi works based on Chromium technology from Google and get synchronize your notes, bookmarks and tabs between running versions of the browser, as well as built-in expansion. Planned and release a mobile version. Today Opera occupies only fifth place in the world ranking of the most popular browser with a share of 1.4%.

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Opera Software has officially announced a new version of the browser Opera Coast experimental tablet iPad.

In the browser Opera Coast 2.0 developer removed many bugs from the previous version released three months ago, and has implemented several new features. In particular, users now have the option of setting a background image from your own collection. In addition, the new browser version appeared integration with other applications to work with PDF files and missing navigation buttons “Next” and “Back”. Thus, Opera Software has once again demonstrated its commitment to gestures, which could emphasize the announcement during a previous version .

The new version of the browser Opera Coast also includes a built in music player, which can be controlled directly from the lock screen.

According to Opera Software, Opera Coast update will improve the speed of loading pages and level of security.

A new version of the browser Opera Coast can be downloaded for free from the App Store.

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HipHop, Air Traffic Control, WebP and Supplemental Downlink – here are some technologies that the company develops Facebook along with a number of partners, including Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung in the framework of the project internet.org . Recall, the main objective of the project – to make the Internet accessible to everyone. Today, Facebook released a document with 70 pages of which is painted in detail exactly how the technology giants are going to increase the volume of international traffic in 1000 and to make the Internet 100 times more effective in the next 5-10 years.

Internet.org project was launched last month. At that time, the company briefly discussed how to make the Internet more accessible. At present, Facebook, Qualcomm and Ericsson have decided to go a little further, shedding light both on proven technology, and on those that are under development.

It is worth noting that Facebook started to think about how to make the Internet more accessible long before the start of the project internet.org. To improve the efficiency of data exchange in 2010, the company released a compiler HipHop (HPHPc), which aired PHP in C + +, while significantly improving performance. This allowed each server to handle 50% more data, but that was not enough, and the company has set up a virtual machine for PHP called HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM). As a result, increased productivity fivefold. 

Not so long ago, Facebook also took up the project Open Compute Project – the creation of buildings for servers of “green” materials. According to giant, like the body can greatly improve the efficiency of data centers and reduce their impact on the environment. Open Compute technologies have made one of the data centers, Facebook, or rather Luleå (Sweden), one of the most efficient in the world. Now there are stores over 250 billion images and more than 250 petabytes of data. Every day updated by the server over 0.5 PB new data and operates with no errors.

Individual attention technologies that are currently being tested Facebook. For example, the Air Traffic Control System is designed to “facilitate the simulation of traffic engineers directly at the offices of Facebook». They will be able to control the bandwidth, delay, packet loss and other important indicators. According to Facebook, Air Traffic Control technology lets you test different cellular standards (EDGE, 3G and 4G), and to identify ways to improve the performance of applications in developing countries.

The largest social network also began for the adaptation of the graphic image compression format WebP, developed by Google. Now all the advantages of WebP uses the Facebook app for Android-powered devices, but in the near future the company plans to implement these capabilities on other platforms. When converting images from JPEG, GIF or PNG to WebP without loss of quality to save about 20% of the traffic.

With the growth of the smartphone market by one of the priorities of Facebook is to develop more effective systems for caching data, tools for compression of transmitted data, and reducing the amount of data required to run applications. The company has even developed an application Facebook For Every Phone for simple phones with support for Java, which is one of the ways by which internet.org plans to increase the number of Internet users by 5 billion people.

Qualcomm has also described some of the technologies on the creation of which it is currently operating within the framework of the project:

• Carrier Aggregation and Supplemental Downlink – the union of different operating ranges in order to provide higher data rates;
• LTE-Broadcast – simultaneous transmission of a plurality of users of content in order to reduce the load on the network;
• LTE-Direct – the exchange of data between two devices without having to connect to the network;
• DSRC – the network of short-range, which allow vehicles to share information in order to prevent accidents.

Ericsson will, in turn, conducted a study to find out exactly what people want from a wireless connection.

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Opera Software continues to experiment with browsers. After switching on the WebKit engine in Opera 15 and exit Opera for Android , the developers decided to pay close attention to the platform Apple. Opera Software today unveiled the most unusual, according to the authors, the browser company – Opera Coast for the iPad.

Unlike already available on iOS Opera Mini , the new browser has been designed taking into account the characteristics of the control tablets and iOS in particular. Since the screen is given by displaying Web pages, and the number of buttons is kept to a minimum. Such familiar commands like forward and back, performed swipe left and right, but in order to reload the page, it should be pulled down over the edge of the screen. Moving is already open between sites made in the style of paging covers in iTunes, and closing – pulling the edge of the screen. In addition, as in other browsers Opera, in Coast provides home screen with a search string, the Quick Access Toolbar and a list of recently opened sites. 

Unfortunately, the architecture of iOS does not allow to set the default browser, so all applications, even after installing Opera Coast will cause the standard for iOS browser – Safari. However, for normal browsing, you can use any browser.

Opera Coast for iPad is now available in the U.S. App Store and will soon appear in the Russian and Ukrainian app store Apple.

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