Thursday, May 23, 2013

Update for popular browsers Chrome and Opera for Android - Android World

Chrome for Android

The development of Chrome is parallel to the desktop and mobile. There is a beta version that gets updated every week and the intention is that the ‘stable’ version of Chrome every six weeks is updated.

The update released today brings an interesting new feature that users of the desktop version had before: the ability to ‘full-screen browsing. The entry bar is hidden automatically when you browse a Web site. It is also now possible to your history tab on tablets look back. You do a long press. By the “back button of the browser Furthermore, you can now customize searches from the omnibox (entry bar).

Chrome for Android can be found here. The beta version of Chrome can be found here. Both versions are available for tablets and smartphones with Android 4.0 or higher.


Opera for Android

The latest version of Opera for Android is a big update. This will include a new interface that users of the beta version of Opera is known for will come. More important perhaps is the biggest change under the hood: Opera has switched from a proprietary system to the rendering engine, the part of a browser that determines how websites are displayed in Chrome. Interestingly, the two browsers based on the same open source code of Chromium 26, the development version of Chrome.

An interesting possibility is the Off-Road feature of Opera. This ensures that websites be reduced on Opera’s servers, so downloading websites costs less data. For developers, the latest version of Opera also interesting features such as remote debugging.

Opera for Android can be found here. The beta version of the browser can be found here.

Source: Google Play Store and Opera Developer News

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