Opera’s updated browser supports 13 new Indian languages

New Delhi: A Good news for all the opera users in India, The Company upgraded its mini browser on January 26, adding various languages and new features to it. The major of the changes is the support feature to 13 new languages and a new QR code reader. The download manager is also improvised.

The Opera Mini browser now supports 90 languages globally. Supporting Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu along with English, in India.

Sunil Kamath, vice president (South Asia & Southeast Asia) at Opera Software said, "In India, more than 70% of the population does not use English as their primary language. Opera web browsers have always supported reading content in multiple languages. We believe the addition of 13 Indian languages to Opera Mini's UI will further help lower barriers for people to come online for the first time".

Earlier the UI language was set according to the language of the Android OS. Now with the new version of opera mini, users can choose from the list of 90 installed languages. Commonly used languages of a person's country will be shown on the top of the language list in the settings menu. Users will also be given the option to select a language initially they update the version of the browser.

Claiming opera to be more efficient and lightweight as compared to the full browsers, it is used by over 100 million Android users in emerging markets like India.

"We are continuing our efforts to bring the internet to as many people as possible, not only by making it possible to access the internet on low-bandwidth networks with our compression technology but also by making sure that our browser is easy for anyone to use and understand," said Christian Uribe, product manager for Opera Mini.

The new browser is incorporated with a QR-code reader and generator and an improved download manager.

"We've also included a QR code generator (in Mini browser), so if you want to share a link with a friend nearby, you can create a QR code to any page yourself," said Uribe. "(For download manager) we've made loads of improvements and tweaks lately to improve the stability and speed of downloads,"it added.(Inputs from agencies)(image-opera)