Another day, another search engine. This one is called Quintura. What differentiates it from others is its split screen results page. On the right you have your standard web crawled list. On the left is a tag cloud that dynamically updates as you refine your search. It even loads favicons. Pretty cool but only works well on Firefox - Safari, Opera and Explorer users beware.

Looks like Opera Mobile is about to get some competition from everybody’s favorite anti-explorer browser, Firefox. Head boss of Mozilla Mitchell Baker told the peeps at APC magazine they’ve been working on a mobile version for quite some time. When asked about release, Baker was quick to say it was a long term project. She also promised ubiquity between the desktop and mobile versions of Firefox, both fully compatible with all add ons and plug-ins.

Hey as long as it stays free, I’m in.

[Via APC]

The Opera browser is one of the most powerful and extensible cross platform browsers out there. So when Nintendo and Opera announced the Wii’s Internet channel would be powered by Opera - nerdcore geeks rejoiced. For the rest of us, disappointment. The beta version of Wii Opera used an old Flash 7 player. Many hoped that misstep was only a side effect of beta software but now that the final version of Wii Opera has been released, the browser is still hobbled with Flash 7. Wii ask why?

“The simple answer is that it’s out of both Opera and Nintendo’s hands. If you want to run Flash outside of Windows, Linux or Mac, you need the Flash SDK (software development kit) which is made by Adobe. The problem is Adobe hasn’t released their SDKs for Flash 8 or 9 and until they do so, we’re stuck with Flash 7.”

So there you have it. Don’t blame Nintendo for the outdated Flash player. If you got words, you know who to go after - Adobe.

[Via Opera Watch]