You Might See Facebook Browser & Dead Opera – Soon!

The rumor is spreading like fire, that Facebook is looking to buy Opera Software. If it turns out to be true then we will probably see a new web browser, Facebook brand.



Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer just got a new competitor few days ago, namely Yahoo Axis, but it looks like they will have to make room for another one. If the said deal confirms, most probably we will see a brand new Facebook browser. If you don’t know about Yahoo Axis yet, it’s a web browser (of course) which has many new features, but the one it’s bragging about is – thumbnails. It has replaced the standard search results page and address bar suggestions with thumbnails, which shows a quick preview of the web page. Know more about Yahoo Axis.

We are saying this because, a few weeks ago the social networking giant bought Instagram and after a while launched a camera app very much similar to Instagram and apparently, Facebook is serious about developing its mobile services and make its own space in mobile sector – Acquisition of Opera Software is a very good move for this purpose. Also, it has plenty of money as it just went public, in figures its more than 16 billion dollars.




Opera claims to have 200 million users worldwide. Undoubtedly, the mobile browsers by the entity are very good and recommended by many people. Even I recommend it for mobile devices, but when it comes to desktop… I’d rather use Firefox or Chrome. Opera recently launched its very own browser for Android and Linus based TVs. We can only imagine what will happen when the growing and innovative company will get support of social networking giant and its huge public funds.

We can also expect some integration of the said browser with the social network to increase the engagement of its users and may be some exclusive features, similar to desktop notifications of Gmail which are only available in Chrome. To check the authenticity of the rumors, when Mashable contacted the PR team they replied, “Thanks for checking in, but Facebook isn’t commenting on this.” Well, what can we conclude out of that?

What do you say about this? Will you use Facebook browser instead of Chrome or Firefox?

Yahoo! Battles It Out For Internet Search Crown

With its new release- the Yahoo! Axis, a search application that is introduced for the Apple gadgets like iPhones, iPads and iPad Touch, Yahoo! has already started its quest for regaining the top spot as the most preferred search engine. Offering high speed querying capabilities, the Yahoo! Axis has also launched itself a pc version as a plug-in software that can be used with Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and other browsers that support HTML-5.

 
From the old blue lines that showed the matching lines from the search query to a preview of the page, which helps in providing the required information, the Yahoo! Axis has simply revolutionized searching. Instead of pre-fashioned clicking, the Axis helps users to “swipe” across a stream of pages and the required pages can be viewed by simply dragging them from the row.

 
Special Projects Product Management Director Ethan Batraski said "Yahoo! is still very much in search, we continue to flourish." Batraski also added "We removed the entire search results page from the equation for a game-changing search experience,” He continued "You will never have to use Safari ever again."

 
The Yahoo! Axis provides easy tweeting, bookmarking and emailing. Also this app has brought new idea of synchronizing devices, which helps to share the information from one gadget to another.

 
Yahoo! really finds this innovation will boost their quest for the top spot, as earlier this year saw Google being elected as the most preferred search engine with 66.5 percent followed by Microsoft’s Bing with 15.4 percent and Yahoo! pushed to 3^rd spot with 13.5 percent of queries to handle.