About Opera Unite

June 17th, 2009 No Comments »

The release of Opera Unite is making a lot of people talking about it. Its main selling point is the embedded Web Server in the Opera’s browser that allows users to share their local media files with friends over the Web. Hats off to the Opera dev team for reinventing the Web browser and making it more than a Web browser.

However, Opera Unite doesn’t really make me want to switch to using Opera browser for privacy, bandwidth, and security reasons. More importantly, all the services of Opera Unite are already available in Facebook, and I am happy to use Facebook to share my notes and photos just like most of my friends do. Lastly, (a bit of bias) I really like Safari on the Mac. It is simple, yet it runs and loads Web pages really fast in comparison to Firefox, Flock, and Opera.

Here is a great article on Opera Unite for those who want to learn more about it.