Like Amazon, Opera wants to build a more efficient web browser for Android than what is offered by Google. According to CNET, they’re calling it Opera with Turbo. Inelegant as the name may sound, the idea behind it is anything but.
A new study from a self-described “psychometric consultant” and recruitment firm says that there’s no real difference in IQ between other browsers — but IE users are, well, below average. To study the “effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser”, they ran a free online IQ test to over 100,000 people, and plotted the average IQ scores based on the browser used.
Opera Mini, the fast-ish browser previously available for the iPhone, has finally made its way to the iPad. The speed dial, ‘tabbed browsing’ and trademark zippiness of Opera Mini is all there.
Windows/Mac/Linux: The Opera browser has always had its “Turbo” mode in its back pocket, and it’s a powerful feature. Now the browser runs even faster on the slowest connections, using Google’s WebP technology to downsize images further and pump them through their servers to your browser.
Android/Symbian: Firefox 4 is the big browser release of the day, but it’s not the only one. Opera released a new version of their mobile browser for Android and Symbian devices. New features include:
Oops, someone at Apple must’ve been a bit too quick to check the “17 and above” box when adding the Opera browser to the Mac App Store. Luckily Opera took it with good humor, saying “seventeen is very young, and I am not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application. It’s very fast, you know, and it has a lot of features.”
