Opera was the very first browser to offer the concept of compression-proxy for faster web-browsing on Desktop and Mobiles, Google has also started offering data-compression proxy on Google Chrome for Mobile phones and is also available to Desktop Chrome users via an official and unofficial browser extension.

Taking the technology further Opera Max is now a dedicated app for Android platform allowing data-management and data-savings features which now even supports shrinking of videos and photos on almost any app on mobile data, as well as Wi-Fi.

Opera is all set to become the worlds fastest web-browser with its server-side acceleration technology to be included in upcoming Opera 10 release, the Opera team released the first public alpha of Opera Turbo demonstrating the compression technology meant for users on low-bandwidth connections, working similar to the man-in-the-middle proxy compression system used by commercial software's like ONSPEED Web Accelerator, Opera Turbo compresses network traffic providing significant improvements in browsing speeds consuming less data saving bandwidth bills.