Opera (web browser)

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Opera is a set of tools for the Internet that includes a web browser, e-mail, webfeed reader, and IRC Chat. There are versions available for several operating systems. These include Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux. There are also version for mobile phones, personal digital assistants, game consoles, and interactive televisions.

Opera is developed by Opera Software which is based in Oslo, Norway.

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Opera was first started in 1994 at Telenor, which is Norway's largest telecommunications company. In 1995, Opera became its own company called Opera Software ASA.[1]

Opera was first released publicly with version 2.0 in 1996,[2] which only ran on Microsoft Windows.[3] With the release of Opera 4.0 in the year 2000, other operating systems were supported.[4]

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  1. About Opera, URL accessed on 13 January, 2011
  2. "Affiliated Organization of Firefox and Mozilla" (PDF). Mozilla Japan. Mozilla Foundation. 2006. http://www.foxkeh.com/downloads/history/history-original.pdf. Retrieved 5 September 2010. 
  3. "Milestones". Opera Software. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 November 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071123104427/http://www.opera.com/company/about/milestones/. Retrieved 13 January 2011. 
  4. Schenk, Mark (2010). "Opera browser version history". http://www.markschenk.com/opera/history.html. Retrieved 5 September 2010. 

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