Opera Mini reaches 169 million users and continues to grow

Opera continues to grow, although the browser is unable to keep up with "big" in the desktop (Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari), in the mobile world grows every day in a head to head with Apple and Google .

Opera has released new data showing the breakdown between desktop and mobile users in countries where it operates.

The study analyzed twelve months and found that 56% of Opera users access from mobile devices. Going down in detail in the data of different countries, mobile use is very strong in Egypt, Bangladesh and Brazil, respectively, with 72, 69 and 65%. Similar data you have in the U.S. that is still above average with his 59%.

According to the survey Opera users are younger than the average for other browsers and 35% of these buy music and games on the move.

Speaking of growth, instead of the 168.8 million users OperaMini achieved in these days show a +64% over the previous month. Speaking in terms of page views the share has reached 117 billion pages, an increase of almost 100% from last year and +8.1% compared to February.

Opera Mobile 12 unveiled at the MWC

After a long time, it's time again, the Opera browser for mobile devices receives an update version 12 to New features include the WebGL support and an HTML5 score of 354 points in the HTML5 test . Other new features include Android support beam (NFC), Adobe Flash support on Android 4.0.3 devices and improvements in the presentation of HTML5. Opera is obviously a lot of hope in HTML5.

As we learned at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​it is hoped that effects are different browser engines with HTML5 less important and so many pages back can be used universally. Currently there is that some websites work properly on other browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, however, lead to unpredictable behavior. This is about using Opera Mobile 12 - Change - at least once in the mobile sector. In addition, this new version is once again an extreme increase in speed and not only on dual-core devices, but also on the "slower" single-cores. Evident, particularly the increase in speed in automatic text adaptation, which now goes almost without delay. 

Also new is the integration of many APIs of the operating systems (especially on Android), leading websites in HTML 5 is possible, even to sensors, such as the position sensor, and even access the camera. This allows developers and developers new possibilities for web applications.