Opera Software ASA (OSE: OPERA) is a Norwegian software company, primarily known for its Opera family of web browsers. Opera Software is also involved in promoting Web standards through participation in the W3C. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. The company also has offices in Sweden, Poland, the People’s Republic of China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Czech Republic and the United States. Opera’s stated vision is “to deliver the best Internet experience on any device.

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MCEBrowser is a plugin for Microsoft Windows Media Center which allows you surf the Internet using a Media Center remote control. Some of the features include: Browse to home page or favorites, scroll around within Web pages, highlight and select links within Web pages to navigate, enter text in web forms, zoom in and out for 10-foot style surfing, and compatible with Media Center Extender devices.

Version 2.2 added support for Windows Vista Media Center, added Japanese language translation Removed dependency on .NET Framework 1.1. (version 2.2)

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Mozilla Firefox 4 is the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, released on March 22, 2011. The first beta was made available on July 6, 2010, Release Candidate 2 (On which the Final version is based) was released on March 18, 2011. It is codenamed Tumucumaque and has been confirmed as the last big release cycle Mozilla will do. The Mozilla team will instead opt for smaller and quicker releases as other browser vendors have been doing.

The primary goals for this version include improvements in performance, standards support, and the user interface.

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Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds. Opera is offered free of charge for personal computers and mobile phones.

Features include tabbed browsing, page zooming, mouse gestures, and an integrated download manager. Its security features include built-in phishing and malware protection, strong encryption when browsing secure websites, and the ability to easily delete private data such as HTTP cookies.

Opera runs on a variety of personal computer operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. The Desktop Team recently dropped support for Solaris.

Opera is known for originating many features later adopted by other Web browsers. Despite these factors, Opera has captured only a small fraction of the worldwide personal computer browser market. It does, though, have a stronger market share on mobile devices such as mobile phones, smartphones, and personal digital assistants. Editions of Opera are available for devices using the Maemo, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android, and iPhone operating systems, as well as Java ME-enabled devices. Approximately 120 million mobile phones have been shipped with Opera. Opera is the only commercial web browser available for the Nintendo DS and Wii gaming systems. Some television set-top boxes use Opera. Adobe Systems has licensed Opera technology for use in the Adobe Creative Suite.

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