The popular Uber service, for instance, lets you hail a car only through its phone app. But the mobile revolution, built on Google's Android and Apple's iOS software, has stolen a lot of the attention of developers and companies building new services and tools. Opera Software CEO Lars Boilesen in 2013.Ī decade ago, efforts by Firefox, Opera and Apple propelled browsers from slow-moving, unexciting technology to the foundation for all the hot new ideas in tech, everything from Google Maps to Facebook social networking. Chrome combined the formerly separate boxes for typing Web addresses and for performing searches, and it stripped away browser interface clutter like menus, toolbars and status bars to devote as much space as possible to what's actually on a website. The Oslo, Norway-based company began the project toward the end of 2015, and the new browser should arrive later this year.īrowsers have changed little in appearance since Google's Chrome arrived in 2008.

For example, 'if you're shopping, you could get recommendations on the side.

'I want to add more smart features,' with a browser that recognizes whether you're reading news, checking email, or social networking, then adapts to suit the task, Boilesen said. The project is designed to revamp the basics of how you use a browser, Chief Executive Lars Boilesen said in an interview at the Mobile World Congress show here in Barcelona, Spain. Opera Software, a perennial underdog, has launched a new browser project to help get it out of the doghouse.

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