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We’re excited to announce that we have partnered with Spotify to make it easier than ever to listen to your favourite music, podcasts and audiobooks while browsing on your desktop browser! Spotify being integrated into our browser, available through our sidebar and the floating music player, means that it works seamlessly with our other features - including the video pop-out feature. This means that our users’ music or audio will pause automatically when they begin playing a video in our browser or join a meeting! To celebrate this partnership, users in selected countries worldwide will be getting an offer to enjoy a free Spotify Premium trial, if they are not subscribed already. To read more about this partnership, click here: https://opr.as/17e76b

🏅Opera is the winner of two 2024 The Lovie Awards🏅 The Lovies recognize “European Internet excellence in the fields of culture, technology, and business,” and Opera has been awarded the Silver Lovies for Best Integrated Experience (AI, Web3 & XR) and Best PR Campaign for Opera One and Tabfulness. Our vision for Opera One was to build a browser from the ground up for the AI-driven era, making it truly rewarding to receive the Lovie for Best Integrated Experience (AI, Web3 & XR) in recognition of our innovative approach. Opera One was the first browser to come with its very own integrated browser AI: Aria, with its features like image generation, image understanding and much more. Discover these and more in our latest Opera One, AI-powered, browser. But we didn’t stop there! Opera One’s Tab Islands feature groups tabs by context, offering users better control and peace of mind with expandable, collapsible, and movable islands. Our “Tabfulness” campaign celebrated this contentment while browsing, inviting fans to share their take on “Tabfulness”. The campaign’s success with over 50,000 applications earned us the Lovie for Best PR Campaign! A huge shoutout to all our loyal users— without you, us browser nerds wouldn’t get to do what we love, launch zany campaigns and push the boundaries of browsing. More exciting stuff to come, stay tuned!🥳

Opera for Android has been updated! As part of our efforts to integrate more AI-driven features for our users, we've brought image understanding to our built-in browser AI, Aria - which is now accessible with no log-in required. This update also provides our users with a selection of new wallpapers with customizable theme colors, inspired by the new Opera One R2 for Desktop, ensuring a fresh, modern, and personalized look! To make sharing even easier, we’ve introduced a new QR Code Sharing feature, which allows users to generate a QR code for any webpage. Learn more here: https://opr.as/ye0s

Opera One received a visual upgrade in R2; with fresh themes, dynamic backgrounds and sound elements! Inspired by the landscapes of Northern Europe, our three new Themes (Aurora, Vågen and Natten) paired with custom soundscapes create the perfect space for browsing. Last year, we completely reimagined the browser with Opera One. This year, we’re taking it further with elevated music and video playback, advanced AI features, and these immersive new Themes. This stable release is the result of a year-long mission to bring our users the best in AI and tech advancements. Now, after months of beta testing, these features are available to all users! Download Opera One R2 on desktop now and experience it for yourself: https://opr.as/e3gx Read all about it in our blog here: https://lnkd.in/dsFv3fsg

Opera One R2 is here! Users can now experience a new level of browsing with upgraded music and video playback, AI features, fresh tab management tools, and themes. The Video Pop Out feature lets our users enjoy content while multitasking, and the enhanced Music Player can now be detached from the sidebar for easy control. They also work together seamlessly, with music automatically pausing when a video is played! Our AI, Aria, is now usable log-in free - powered by Opera’s Composer AI engine, Aria can also generate and understand images. This update sees Split Screen browsing come to Opera, along with Tab Traces - where recently visited tabs have subtle highlights to remind users which tabs they’ve been using! We’ve also developed customizable Themes! With their dynamic backgrounds & sound effects inspired by our surroundings in Northern Europe, our Themes will allow users to customize their browser to match their mood! Opera One R2 is available to download now here: https://opr.as/e3gx To read all about these new features and more, click here: https://lnkd.in/ecHgpqzG

🎉 Happy World Browser Day!  🎉 Today is the day we celebrate those awesome tools that connect us to the vast world of the internet – web browsers! Imagine a world where we couldn't effortlessly jump between websites. 🤯 Thank goodness for browsers, right? From the early days of dial-up to today's lightning-fast connections, browsers have revolutionized the way we live, work, and play. 🎉 And let's give a shout-out to the brilliant browser nerds who are constantly pushing the boundaries of what browsers can do! From tabs and search bars to AI-powered features, they're the ones making our online lives easier and more exciting. And let's not forget the importance of user choice. Having the freedom to choose the browser that best fits your needs is what keeps the innovation going strong. 💪 Let's celebrate browsers together! 🥂 Michael T. | Krystian Kolondra | Jan Standal | Per Wetterdal | Jorgen Arnesen | Maciej Kocemba | Jona Bolin | Stefan Stjernelund | Arjan van Leeuwen | Damian Trelka | Henrik Lexow | Krystian Zubel | Monika Kurczyńska | Maciej Wojcik | Julia Szyndzielorz | Nika Glasunow | Santiago Benavides García | Kseniia Sycheva | Tomas Habryka | Patrick Curtin | Chet Callahan | Matt Gibson | Patrick Huertas | Christian Diwo | Aliya Kalynbayeva | Mateusz Rzempała | #WorldBrowserDay #BrowserNerds #UserChoice #InternetLove

Aria Image Understanding is now also live in Opera One for iOS! Our native browser AI Aria  from today on can  help users learn more about the surrounding environment, solve problems, learn about products and more, simply by uploading images to Aria. This update follows our recent overhaul of our flagship browser for iPhone, which has resulted in a significant uplift of new users across Europe since its release, with new users increasing by over 66% from August to September. Aria Image Understanding is also already available on Opera for Android & our desktop browser. Learn more: https://opr.as/36381d

We're back with our AI Feature Drops: today, we’re excited to share that AI Tab Management is here! Once we invented tabs in the browser, and now we’re letting you use AI to manage them. Users can now tell Aria directly in the Command Line, or by right clicking any tab and choosing the “AI Tab Management” option, to help close, group, pin & add tabs to a bookmark. Tell Aria for example to "close all my YouTube tabs" and Aria will take care of it while keeping your browsing data safe. When asking Aria to organize the tabs, the only thing that will be processed by the AI is the prompt provided by the user. This means that all tab-related data gets processed locally on the user’s computer, ensuring the privacy and security are maintained. This means that we are taking AI out of the usual chatbox, enabling it to start performing browser tasks. This feature is ready to test in the developer version of Opera One. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ehhSFwct

Aria, our browser AI, is now available on desktop without log-in! Users are now able to start using Aria from the sidebar or by using Ctrl+/ (Cmd+/ on Mac) just by accepting the T&Cs once. If they hit the limit, users can still create a free Opera Account to continue leveraging the power of our browser AI for generating images, texts, explanations, summaries and even translations. The limit you may encounter is on image generation, which has been capped to 5 images. Users will also be available to use Aria without needing an account on our mobile browsers for iOS & Android in the upcoming weeks. Learn more: https://opr.as/5n8m

We are thrilled to announce that Opera One for iOS has been honoured with the prestigious MUSE Design Award 2024! 🏆 The MUSE Design Awards is an international design competition dedicated to recognising excellent and original design work from across the globe. This recognition reflects our commitment to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in mobile browsing! With its sleek, intuitive navigation system and a clean interface, Opera One for iOS introduces convenient features like moving the address bar to the bottom for easier access and full-screen browsing. We've also added a start page carousel for live football scores and news highlights! A big thank you to the team at MUSE Awards and, most importantly, our dedicated and talented product team who made this achievement possible.