This version introduced full page scaling, allowing the user to zoom from 20% to 1000%. Opera 2.0 was finalized one year later, in April 1996, and the software was released as shareware, but it wasn’t until version 2.1 that Opera was officially released. Opera developed its own engine to render web pages. The project began in April 1994 with version 1.0 completed in April 1995. Opera 1.0 was an in-house project to demonstrate that Telenor’s programmers were capable of creating a compliant browser. In 1995, Opera was split off into a separate company, Opera Software SA, which remained in Norwegian hands until mid-2016, when the entire Opera browser business was purchased by a Chinese consortium for $600 million, leaving the parent company with Opera Apps & Games and Opera TV. ![]() The Opera browser was begun by Telenor, the leading Norwegian telecom company, in early 1994.
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