It’s that time of the year again. Vacation.
This Sunday I’ll be going on a week-long vacation with my wife to West Virginia. I most likely won’t be posting anything during this time.
Enjoy your summer, y’all.
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A: According to Secunia, a respected firm that tracks security in browsers, Opera has the best reputation and track record when it comes to browser security. Keeping our users safe from security vulnerabilities, fraudulent websites, and malicious hackers is a top priority for Opera. Opera is maintained by hundreds of engineers, developers and security experts who are constantly looking to make the browser even safer.
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A: Absolutely not. In fact, many of the features that are popular in other browsers today were invented and pioneered by Opera a long time ago. Opera invented the precursor to tabs (in 1994), Page Zoom (1994), was the first browser to block pop-up ads (2000), first to add a Search field in the browser toolbar (2000), Sessions (1996), deleting private data (2000), Mouse Gestures (2000), User JavaScript (2005), BitTorrent support (2005), Widgets (2006), Speed Dial (2007), and much more.
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Q: This all sounds great, so how do I download Opera?
A: -- Opera on your computer
-- Opera Mini on your phone
-- Opera Mobile on your phone
-- or learn more about Opera at www.opera.com
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Who goes on vacation to West (by God!) Virginia?? Haha. You must be outdoorsy type people. The only thing to do there is hiking, kayaking, etc.
Have fun.
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Have fun Daniel.
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I wish the both of you warm sunshine and cool shadow.
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have a great time !
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Thanks for the update to let us know there won’t be any updates!
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Thanks. The day you get back from vacation, the first Kestrel will be released, and you’ll have a TON of blogging to catch up on.
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Enjoy, and come back rested!
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IceArdor, inside information or just joking?
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have a nice vacation!
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hf! *wave*
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West Virginia?
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Enjoy your holidays Daniel.
Although you are saying you most probably won’t be posting, but the Opera Mini power won’t let you stay offline much
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Yeah.. update us with some pictures from West Virginia.. remember, you always have ur Opera Mini… hehe…
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check out NARR if your up for some _great_ rafting in WV.
Have fun!
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have fun!! and take a lot of photos!!
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Have a nice trip!
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West virginia,
Wild and wonderful.
Enjoy mountains.
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Have a great one Daniel
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hi hope u have enjoyed your summer vacation. been waiting a weeklong for *** bits of opera. u have got a tough job ahead now.
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I miss my daily Opera updates =0) Anyways, I hope you had a good vacation. (now you just need to move to Norway to take advantage of that month long vacation)
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Welcome back. Hope you had a good vacation. Send us a couple pictures, please.
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IceArdor, I still have to process those pictures.