Opera Unite Offers Killer Media Sharing, But Fails at Social Networking

Opera has launched a new Web browser in an attempt to gain market share. Dubbed Unite, the new browser offers some game-changing features, but tries a little too hard to compete with existing social networks.

Opera is truly the little guy when it comes to Web browsers. While they have been around for over twelve years, their desktop market share is paltry compared to even relative newcomers like Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Unite is a browser with a suite of applications that allow your computer to directly share files, music, and photographs without complex configuration. It also has chat and a Web server built in.

Nothing on the technology front is new here. It's just that in the past, if you wanted to set up these kind of services on your home computer, you needed to know a little some things about, Web servers, Web design, port redirection, firewalls and other network technologies. Opera Unite does all this for you.

Critics are calling it a bad move and saying that ...

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Michael Scalisi, PC World