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    Published April 19, 2005
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      Touting fast performance and new security features, Opera Software on Tuesday launched Version 8 of its Web browser for Windows and Linux.

      The browser is available for free download from the Opera Web site in four languages: English, German, Dutch and Polish. Additional languages will follow. Also on Tuesday, Opera released a beta edition of Version 8 for the Macintosh computer.

      “The vast majority of Internet users have had to deal with a slow and insecure browser for too long,” Hakon Wium Lie, chief technology officer at Oslo, Norway-based Opera Software ASA, said in a statement. “People are spending more time online, and with the increase in online fraud, it is vital that they have a browser that is fast, secure and easy to use.”

      The release of Opera 8 may further turn up the competitive heat on Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer, which has lost market share to the Mozilla Foundations open-source Firefox browser.

      Key new security features in Opera 8 include a security information field that displays the trustworthiness of banking and shopping Web sites, according to Opera officials.

      This field, which is automatically started when the user visits a secure site, measures security levels in a range from one to three. It also displays the sites certificate owner of record, so users can judge whether they feel secure enough to execute purchases and credit card transactions on the site.

      /zimages/2/28571.gifClick here to read about the steps Opera took to thwart spoofing during the beta test program for its latest browser.

      The feature aims to reduce the chances that users will sign into a “spoofed” site that dupes them into executing fraudulent transactions that result in the theft of cash or their identity.

      Opera officials claim that the browsers tight coding and speedy rendering engine make it the fastest browser in the market for loading pages and displaying text. The browser also offers fast navigation features such as providing keyboard shortcuts and giving users the option of opening all of their favorite pages at once.

      The browser includes a tabbed interface to give users rapid access to navigation features. It is also highly self-contained, with no need to download extensions to gain access to special features or enhancements, according to Opera officials.

      The browser also has a new voice feature that lets users surf the Web using voice commands and have the computer read documents aloud for them. The voice feature is currently offered in English only and runs on Windows 2000 and XP.

      The browser also has what Opera is calling the Extensible Rendering Architecture, which gives users new options for viewing pages. This provides a “fit to window width” capability, eliminating the need to scroll pages horizontally, and lets users magnify pages and text while still fitting them within a window on the screen.

      By clicking on a trash-can icon in the upper-right corner of the Opera browser screen, users can access all closed windows and previously accessed pages. They can also use this feature to review blocked pop-ups.

      /zimages/2/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis about productivity and business solutions.

      John Pallatto
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      John Pallatto has been editor in chief of QuinStreet Inc.'s eWEEK.com since October 2012. He has more than 40 years of experience as a professional journalist working at a daily newspaper and computer technology trade journals. He was an eWEEK managing editor from 2009 to 2012. From 2003 to 2007 he covered Enterprise Application Software for eWEEK. From June 2007 to 2008 he was eWEEK’s West Coast news editor. Pallatto was a member of the staff that launched PC Week in March 1984. From 1992 to 1996 he was PC Week’s West Coast Bureau chief. From 1996 to 1998 he was a senior editor with Ziff-Davis Internet Computing Magazine. From 2000 to 2002 Pallatto was West Coast bureau chief with Internet World Magazine. His professional journalism career started at the Hartford Courant daily newspaper where he worked from 1974 to 1983.

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