A Web
browser developed in 1994 by Norwegian company Telenor. Opera is boasted as being the speediest and most
standards-compliant of the current browsers in use, supporting such standards as 128-bit encryption,
SSL2 and 3,
CSS1, partial CSS2,
XML,
HTML and
JavaScript. Opera is available for use with the
BeOS,
EPOC,
Linux, Symbian,
OS/2,
Windows and
Mac operating systems.