![]() Web Integration – Not a big deal IMHO, oh look it can now link to webmail and send feeds to the mail reader… Not blowing my skirt up, but some people may find it useful. Sure it makes images look like ass, but if you are still in area’s where dialup is the only choice (plenty of that still around!!! Northern NH, western ME, the Dakota’s) or your high speed connection gets throttled for bandwidth use (down in Oz for example) this technology is a godsend. Opera Turbo – cute, and I know a number of people on METERED connections who are praising the Nine for this addition. Other browsers don’t even give you the OPTION of moving where the tabs appear. On my netbook I have my Win7 taskbar on the left, and tabs on the right making as much space top to bottom available as possible. Likewise on my 1024×600 netbook it’s nice to use a few pixels as a sidebar giving me all 600px in height available even if it does narrow the browser width to the 800 mark. With the beta they introduced thumbnails in tabs, but it didn’t work in portrait mode where many of us thought they’d work better – so they implemented that AND finally allow the user to resize the taskbar in portrait – though they still have a max-width implemented Running the tabs in portrait mode lets you make actual use of all that extra screen real-estate we have on widescreens… When most websites are designed to max-out their width at 1024, it’s nice to be able to do something with the extra 896 pixels of my primary displays on the desktop. Not all users are going to agree on things, but they do listen – expanding Speed dial to more pages was much requested, so they did it. I have also rarely seen a browser maker actually LISTEN to it’s userbase as much as Opera actually does. It’s funny though because I’ve seen retards out there citing it for stability issues (the ALPHA is more stable for me than any version of FF ever released) or calling it ‘bloated’… Bloated would be a 7.7 megabyte download WITHOUT any of the features built in like FF 3.5 – Opera adds a mail client, bittorrent client, speed dial, flip navigation, mouse gestures, in-built spell checking (no longer need GNU ASpell to function), a full featured website/filesharing tie-in module (Opera United) all for 6.6 megs. (flip navigation, favicon only bookmarks on any toolbar, tab trash can, custom buttons, session saving, auto-refresh, etc, etc). I’ve been using Opera 10 since alpha – as my primary browser on my desktop since for me it was more stable than FF, I didn’t have to run around like a chicken with my head cut off looking for plugins to bring it up to what I’ve come to expect as BASIC FUNCTIONALITY since Opera 8.5. ![]() You can get this latest release from the website. With a 100% score on the ACID3 standards compliance test, and support for CSS3 Webfonts, Opera 10 is ready whenever inspiration strikes.” Opera Dragonfly, available in 36 languages, now allows you to edit the DOM and inspect HTTP headers. “Web developers can play with the newest update to Opera Dragonfly, our set of on-board, Web development tools. Web developers have also been taken into account with Opera 10. No longer will an update require a re-installation, which should bring Opera up to par with the rest of the pack when it comes to up-to-date installations. Tabs can now also be displayed as website thumbnails, which could be useful on widescreen configurations.Ī feature which should’ve been in there eons ago has now also finally arrived to Opera: automatic updates. Tabs are on top, but in true Opera fashion, can be placed anywhere else too. The interface has also been completely redesigned, and is now “streamlined and elegant” according to Opera. According to Opera’s own tests, Opra Turbo can speed up the web up to about 8 times. Opera Turbo, turned on with the flick of a switch, will compress websites to maintain browsing speeds even in bandwith constrained situations like a slow WiFi connection or a choppy 3G connection. Opera Turbo is the feature most prominently listed in promotional materials, so let’s start there. It’s got a completely new interface, a turbo mode for those days of bandwith drought, automatic updates (finally!), and lots more. ![]() After a long gestation period, Opera has released version 10 of their browser, which comes packed with a whole lot of improvements and new features.
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