At Opera we like to joke about how using Opera Mini is like getting about 90% off (the data of) websites. Sometimes it can be less, sometimes more. It's a great way to explain why to use it and generally what Opera Mini is all about. It can sometimes be difficult to illustrate, so today, we just said it.

My Opera member Sam added a little more perspective that is going to help a lot of people really give Opera Mini a shot: 98% data savings. He drove his point home by adding context. Check out his comment where he explains *as a real user* that Opera is saving him money.

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With Opera Mini (and Opera Mobile - if you enable Opera Turbo) you can save up to 90% off all websites on Opera's compression technology. On Twitter we came across a fella that has saved some insane amounts of data and money:

Guess you could say that the best deal this weekend is 90% off all websites? :)

The Opera Extensions list just surpassed 1000 approved extensions. That means there are over 1000 potential new Opera features waiting to be discovered! From enhancements to your social media experience, news and blogging tools to development tools, it's all there waiting for you!

We have plans to further expand on the possibilities of extensions, from exciting new API's to new features in Opera. As we add more we see more and more crazy extensions submitted. (Though we are still waiting for an extension for petting your cat remotely.) Who knows how many we'll have at the end of the year - or what they will be?

We have done quite a few extensions highlights since the launch of Opera 11 one year ago. We use plenty of extensions ourself, but we would love to know what your favorites are! Drop us a comment with a short explanation of the one extension you can't browse without!

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• Mac: File uploading, and large network requests never finishes
• Mac: Some font rendering issues and crashes with Web fonts

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The big news from the past week here at Opera HQ was the release of Opera 11.61. As you might imagine, this announcement prompted a frenzy of downloading, as users around the world rushed to claim the latest stability improvements and Speed Dial updates for their own. The activity on our servers reached such a peak that our head engineers had to throw the switch that brought the backup servers online from their secret location.

Well, make that formerly secret location.

(It was the buzzing from all that data compression that finally gave it away.)

Meanwhile, out on the gadget side of things, record quarterly earnings were reported by Apple and Samsung. In both cases, the companies earned their billions largely on the sale of smartphones and tablets, shifting something on the order of 20-30 million units each. In three months!

As if that weren't mind-blowing enough, 3D printing moved closer to becoming a truly mainstream technology as The Pirate Bay began offering digital files for download that can then be turned into actual objects. Emails with attachments are about to take on a whole new meaning...

Last but not least, there has been a lot of unusual activity out in space lately... If you were planning to fly over the North Pole in the past few days and had to be re-routed, for example, you probably already heard about the massive solar eruptions that are creating a "minor to moderate" radiation storm around Earth right now, in the words of one laudably calm scientist. OK. You've got your tin-foil hat and raincoat all set for that. But did you know that one of our friendly neighborhood asteroids - in this case, the very friendly-sounding Eros - will pass very close to our planet on January 31st? To some folks watching the night skies it will appear brighter than Neptune. (Not quite sure what that means, but it sounds like something worthy of going outside and staring up at the sky for. ;)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

This is joeblogs' Opera setup:

What does your Opera look like? There are so many beautiful, unique and personal version of Opera out there, and we'd like to see them all. Share a link in the comments.

Several months ago, Paul Irish and I got an idea to create a service that would give out recommendations on which HTML5 features to use and how to use them. Finally, yesterday, we pushed that site live: html5please.us.

The pressing problem for web developers has been to know which features are good to use, which are not. Most likely, they spend hours working on sites using some new features, only to be burnt in the process using features that are not performance-friendly, having incomplete support or using the wrong polyfill.

I spent a lot of time thinking of how to best implement this such that it would be easy to work with among contributors and also be easy to compile into a single site. Tim Branyen helped in much of the brainstorming and finally we came up with a node/backbone implementation that took a set of markdown posts and stitched them into a single HTML page. The node application also automatically tries to add a link to when can i use for each of the features. I also added another check to verify these links exist and if not, remove them before being published.

Thanks to Deepak Jois for writing the shell-script that allows easy addition of new features. Connor Montgomery, Peter Beverloo and Addy Osmani also helped significantly in making sure the content was relevant and correct.

Let us know what you think and also if you could, help in the effort.

Opera released Opera 11.61 today. This security update addresses and solves a few security issues. It should also improve stability. There is also an update to the default Speed Dials, allowing better local content. This Speed Dial content update only affects unaltered default Speed Dials.

Opera is as always free and available to download directly from www.opera.com!

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• CORE-43788 Can't scroll with mouse wheel over iframe with scrolling=no if smooth scrolling is enabled
• CORE-42642 JavaScript crash
• CORE-43273 Opera freezes when loading a big session with the Tab Vault extension
• CORE-42012 Crash in Carakan on WebGL benchmark
• Reverted CORE-43506 POST request for application/x-www-form-urlencoded always sent as two packets
• CORE-41923 [*nix] Vega crash
• DSK-350900 Block the VLC plug-in due to excessive crashing
• DSK-353378 Opera loses advanced download settings after restart
• DSK-353217 [*nix] Red and blue channels swapped when run with a 16-bit color depth
• DSK-350402 Crashes if you unpin the last message in the "Pinned" view
• DSK-355394 Crash when closing mail window
• DSK-350332 Mail unread count is wrong
• DSK-355604 Update opera:about to show 2012

Each of us is unique, but we don't always think about what that means for others who are different from ourselves. That's why we are indebted to folks who take the time and effort to show us what the world looks like from their perspective.

Our Member of the Week writes a blog about "life as a little guy" - in other words, the condition known as achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism. We love the fact that this blog highlights the achievements - and occasional travails - of other little people, from award-winning actors in Hollywood and Olympic athletes to fire fighters and lawyers. It's a great education for all of us.

Our author himself is a product tester for Opera, here at Oslo HQ. Congratulations to David: you're our member of the week!

The beeps, blips and clicks from a gazillion new gadgets at last week's Consumer Electronics Show were still resounding in the early part of this week (speaking of which, if you haven't yet checked out our team's photos from the show, you can find them here).

Given all that noise, it's understandable if a quiet little update from our side on the App Store might have been overlooked. So here's the official notice for all you iPhone users: Opera Mini 6.5.2 for iOS is ready for your browsing pleasure. Upgrade today!

Meanwhile, the other big story on the Internet this week was the lack thereof. In other words, the January 18th blackout of popular sites like reddit, WordPress, Wikipedia and many others. In the case of Wikipedia going dark for the day, this probably resulted in many dinnertime debates going unresolved and more than a few students' homework being left unfinished. However, one definite consequence was the sudden proliferation of invented knowledge under the #FactsWithoutWikipedia hashtag on Twitter. My own favorite new "fact:" hamsters are actually very tiny lions.

Now, the reason that all those websites closed down for a day was to protest laws now being proposed in the US to protect intellectual property online called SOPA and PIPA, aimed at content pirating in general and file-sharing in particular (but probably also including file-revealing, in the case of sites like Wikileaks). But although SOPA and PIPA are not laws yet, the file-sharing site megaupload was shut down on Friday using existing laws in the US, leaving lots of people and their content in the cloud hanging, as it were...

But enough of these big-picture issues. The real news these days is that we're all going nano. From IBM's creation of a magnetic storage unit consisting of just 12 atoms to the announcement of a microscopic "ear" able to hear germs, it's clear that, like hamsters, we are all going to have to start sweating the small stuff after all...

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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Last week was the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. We had a booth and our Quantum Strategist DotEd took a lot of pictures. :yes:

Built on standards-based technology, the Opera TV Store serves up apps that work on all your connected devices. Get on the fast track to creating and publishing your TV Store web apps. Read more about Opera TV Store.

All right, everyone - this is the moment you've all been waiting for! We had over a thousand entries to our DuckDuckGo t-shirt contest... but only 10 shirts to give away!

So the odds were tough - and if you didn't win this time, don't worry. We'll have lots more contests this year, so just keep checking back with us. And now, without any further ado (make that "a-duck"), the winners are...

1. goodtobebad
2. navin6
3. pvs
4. Hoolie
5. Hatzenbichler
6. jazzyjatt
7. jgutierrez
8. ChillyChilly
9. ConnWarwicker
10. denkyira

Congratulations! :hat:

Browser Support The font-feature-settings property is currently supported by Firefox 4+ and Internet Explorer 10, beginning with Preview 4. Note that because Firefox and IE implemented different versions of the draft the value syntax they accept is different. For example, enabling kerning in both browsers requires the following:

-ms-font-feature-settings: "kern" 1;  
-moz-font-feature-setting: "kern=1";

Good news for everyone who Googles!

In the past, Google services didn't always work quite as they should have done in Opera, mostly due to that old bugbear of browser compatibility.

But Google has now performed the tweaks, fixes and possibly even rain dances necessary to make Google+ and the Google Toolbar work better in Opera. To see it for yourself, check out Opera's page in Google+. And while you're there, why not add us to your circles?