Browsersphere

Opera Mini seems to be dominating the mobile web browser space these days (and even creeping up on some of the major players in the desktop market). Therefore, it seems fitting to dedicate a post to some of the coverage the little browser that could has gotten lately:

• The Opera Mini 4 beta was listed as part of PC Magazine’s “Cheap, Cool Campus Tech” (via Opera Watch).
• Russell Beattie calls the latest beta Opera’s “best yet” and even goes so far as to suggest that companies like MySpace, Facebook, Amazon.com and eBay could benefit from buying Opera outright.
• Phones with Opera Mini pre-installed, distribution partners, and more gives a complete rundown on the operators and carriers, handset manufacturers and distribution partners that have Opera Mini deals in one form or another.
• Opera Mini is now serving up over a billion pages per month.

For all the latest and greatest Opera Mini news, be sure to keep an eye on Opera Watch and the Opera Mini Blog. With all the buzz around the latest beta, you’re sure to get the latest coverage the quickest there, and in the greatest detail.

Tags: Market Share, Mobile, Opera Mini, Reviews, Stats

Every now and then I’ll be posting updates on the latest web browser releases. This time around, four web browsers show up on the radar.

Camino 1.5.1, a maintenance release of that browser, was released on August 17th.

Opera is most certainly in release mode at the moment. A new beta version of Opera Mini 4 will be released later today (August 30th) and the first alpha build of Kestrel will be released next week on September 4th.

Finally, the latest release of the forthcoming Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso Alpha 7. Either that build or the next (which is available via nightly builds) contains a new plugin manager and a new tab animation for overflow tabs. The Mozilla folks are definitely interested in feedback, so if you’re a Firefox user and interested in getting a taste of the latest and greatest developments of that browser, you should give Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 a try.

Tags: Camino, Development, Features, Firefox, Mobile, Opera, Opera Mini, Releases