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Arianna
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Opera Software today unveiled the final version of Opera 10. In a world of ordinary Web browsers, Opera 10 stands out from the crowd with innovative new features wrapped in an elegant, fresh interface. Opera 10 is absolutely free, comes in 43 languages, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. You can download the world’s most innovative browser from http://www.opera.com/

There are three major things you must try in Opera 10:

Opera Turbo, a new compression technology that solves the pain of slow connections.

Whether you are an on-the-go business traveler, you rely on 3G cards in your netbook, or you find yourself stuck on a sluggish Wi-Fi connection, Opera Turbo gives you a major browsing boost.

If your network speed slows to a crawl, simply enable Opera Turbo to browse the Web at broadband-like speeds. Opera Turbo will automatically detect when network speeds will enable you to benefit. Once you turn it on, Opera Turbo instantly compresses pages, so less data needs to be transferred over a limited connection.

Take the Opera Turbo test today. In our laboratory trials, Opera Turbo gives up to eight times faster Web surfing over slow connections than other browsers.

VIDEO — Scandinavians have an obsession for compression. Watch a slightly different take on our Opera Turbo technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYEUFwJXVvw

A sleek and beautiful interface
You have never seen an Opera browser that looks like this. For Opera 10 we gave the browser a streamlined and elegant new interface. The world-class design complements Opera’s world-class features that help you get even more out of your Web browsing.

Better tabs, from the original pioneer Opera continues pioneering new ways to use tabs. In Opera 10, resize your tab bar by pulling down on it or double-clicking the handle, revealing a surprise: Opera now shows you full thumbnails of all your open tabs.

Tip: Opera 10’s Visual Tabs are placed at the top, but you can put them on either sides or the bottom. Try it with a widescreen monitor.

Opera 10 includes other refinements to help you maximize productivity and get more from your Web-browsing experience:

Super-sized Speed Dial
Opera’s Speed Dial has been emulated all over the Web. Now the original is ready for your personal touch. Have a large monitor? Turn your Speed Dial into a 5x5 grid. Other sizes are available, as well. If you have a favorite picture, you can use it as your Speed Dial’s background image.

Automatic updates for enhanced safety
Opera 10 updates automatically, so you always have the latest version. Now you always take advantage of our newest features and benefit from Opera’s strong track record when it comes to protecting our users. Visit secunia.com to see the statistics.

Chekk ur speling
Misspell no more. Enter text into any form field or into our e-mail client, and we will make you look good. The Spell Checker supports 51 languages, using the popular open source Hunspell dictionary format.

Better e-mail with a better e-mail client
Why just browse the Web? Opera puts your e-mail right where you need it, by giving you a built-in e-mail client for optimal productivity. Opera Mail gives you many options to organize, sort and search your mail and contacts. Opera 10 features the fastest and most powerful Opera Mail yet. A new thread reader makes it easy to follow discussions. Combined with our built-in Spell Checker, Opera 10 gives you a great e-mail client and a great browser, all in one.

The craftsmanship under the hood
Browsing speed is a combination of many factors. We fine-tuned our overall speed, making Opera faster and smoother on resource-intensive pages such as Gmail. Opera 10 is 40% faster in page loading than Opera 9.6 ... and that is before you activate Opera Turbo. Opera is designed not only to be light and fast, but also smart. Our adaptive memory management is optimized to work with your machine, conserving memory if your computer has less RAM and utilizing more memory to enhance performance if your computer has memory to spare.

Toys for Web developers
Web developers can play with the newest update to Opera Dragonfly, our set of on-board, Web development tools. Opera Dragonfly, available in 36 languages, now allows you to edit the DOM and inspect HTTP headers. With a 100% score on the ACID3 standards compliance test, and support for CSS3 Webfonts, Opera 10 is ready whenever inspiration strikes.

What our CEO says:
“At Opera, we have always worked hard to innovate new ways to improve everyone’s browsing experience,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Opera Turbo is our newest innovation, and one we think everyone should try, because we all will face a slow connection at some point. Now, there is a solution, and it is absolutely free. We are excited to offer Opera 10 to the world, and we hope even more people discover what the 40 million people who have already made the switch know: browsing with Opera makes the Web a safer, more enjoyable and more interesting place.”

Availability
Opera 10 comes in 43 languages for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. It is available completely free from http://www.opera.com/

Reviewing Opera 10:
A video guide to Opera 10 is available here: http://www.opera.com/press/reviews/


http://www.opera.com

Bwahahahaha @ "Chekk ur speling" (it's strange that they listed it though - it was there in version 9 too unsure.gif). I used the beta versions and the RC and I have to say that they did a darn fine job. wub.gif
Cattius
Sounds great, I'm updating now biggrin.gif

I don't use Opera all the time, but I do have it on my computer for testing because they're driving forward so many innovative ideas.
Neo Avatars
The tabs no longer have the nice chunky look, instead turning into something with a Safari-like feel. sad.gif (though skins are so crazily easy to install, that's certainly not a problem)

Dragonfly even has a couple of things that Firebug doesn't appear to. ohmy.gif

'tis wonderfully fast and that's what really matters - the only browser that's in the same league is Chrome (and that doesn't appear to have a Tab Scope-esque feature or an incredible 'split-browse' view (right-click on tabs > Arrange > Cascade or Tile)).
King Reaper
woot?
i always use opera wub.gif
gonna download...it.. now!
Kwinten
I just knew Dani was going to post this.

I'm gonna give it a try. I've always been fairly happy with Opera, apart from a few issues I had with it in the past. But we, as adults, talked about it and it's big love again now.
King Reaper
QUOTE (Kwinten @ Sep 2 2009, 12:48 PM) *
I just knew Dani was going to post this.

I'm gonna give it a try. I've always been fairly happy with Opera, apart from a few issues I had with it in the past. But we, as adults, talked about it and it's big love again now.

exactly how many 'Dan's are on this forum
so far ik three (including myself)
Arianna
QUOTE (King Reaper @ Sep 2 2009, 07:01 PM) *
QUOTE (Kwinten @ Sep 2 2009, 12:48 PM) *
I just knew Dani was going to post this.

I'm gonna give it a try. I've always been fairly happy with Opera, apart from a few issues I had with it in the past. But we, as adults, talked about it and it's big love again now.

exactly how many 'Dan's are on this forum
so far ik three (including myself)

Dani, not Dan.

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The tabs no longer have the nice chunky look, instead turning into something with a Safari-like feel.
Tab thumbnails. AWESOME. Except when you're watching porn. sad.gif

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I'm gonna give it a try. I've always been fairly happy with Opera, apart from a few issues I had with it in the past. But we, as adults, talked about it and it's big love again now.
embedded IRC and BitTorrent capabilities? wub.gif
Fencefry
I was considering going back to Opera as my main browser after Unite came out, but this just won me over wub.gif
Caboose
I'd never used Opera other than to check my webpages worked on it, but i'm actually giving it a go this time. And Turbo looks useful with my internet speed...
Yippee
Just downloaded it for the first time. I have to say, it's pretty nice. There's a few things about it that are different or slightly worse than when I was doing web development in Firefox, but for normal browsing it's much better. Very nice.

Just wish the speed dial had a 5x3 setting (there's probably a work-around somewhere, I just haven't looked for it yet) and I could hold the down arrow to get to the end of a large text box instead of holding down then right.
Caboose
Is it just me or are all the JPEGs pixelated?
Arianna
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 3 2009, 03:33 PM) *
Is it just me or are all the JPEGs pixelated?

If you have activated Opera Turbo, of course they are, since Opera Turbo compresses data in order to have better loading times (but takes more time to actually render items like pictures and stuff). Which is why you DON'T turn Opera Turbo on when it's not needed.
Caboose
I think it's always needed when your download speed maxes out at 0.6MB/s
Goggie
I'll give it a go, I preferred Chrome to Opera 9 but it sounds pretty fineee
Turbo sounds interesting, anyone used it for downloading porn stuff yet?

Meh, bit too jumpy for my liking. Chrome is nice and smooth whereas this, is not sad.gif
Arianna
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 3 2009, 02:42 PM) *
I think it's always needed when your download speed maxes out at 0.6MB/s

0.6MB/s is horribly fast. blink.gif It's meant to be used with download speeds of 20KB/s at most...it's like using 4x4 on a motorway - silly and a hindrance. blink.gif
Caboose
Nah, i put it on Auto and it seems to be on most of the time.
Flames
I tried Opera 10 out and it was alright. It opened windows up slowly and it took too long to check for updates. So I'm sticking with Firefox. However, I will give Opera 10 another chance sometime soon. The thing I liked most about Opera was the selection of different skins.
Caboose
I've been using it as my main browser for a few days now, i quite like it... maybe i'll stick with it. Love the mouse movement stuff, like turning pages in a book smile.gif
Fencefry
I'm liking it a lot, but does anyone know if there is a widget for MSN and/or Twitter? I'd rather have one integrated into the browser than having a separate browser.
Caboose
http://widgets.opera.com/widget/7206/

Couldn't find one for MSN...
Mudkip Hugger
Gave it a try and I loved it. Especially skins and widgets. I think I'll make this my main browser now.
Caboose
There is quite a lot of incompatibility though, that's the main drag for me. A lot less than i had with Chrome... some drop down menu's don't work (Amazon) and various other things. Sometimes it just messes up a page completely. I'll use it a lot, but not all the time.
Redicaluss
I installed it, gagged at the layout. Then loaded some pages and found Chrome to be just as good, if not better. Deleted it promptly after.
Fencefry
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 6 2009, 07:18 AM) *
There is quite a lot of incompatibility though, that's the main drag for me. A lot less than i had with Chrome... some drop down menu's don't work (Amazon) and various other things. Sometimes it just messes up a page completely. I'll use it a lot, but not all the time.

When the age is messed up, try hitting the 'fit page to width icon', turning it on or off. It's on the right side of the status bar.

QUOTE (Redicaluss @ Sep 7 2009, 08:19 PM) *
I installed it, gagged at the layout. Then loaded some pages and found Chrome to be just as good, if not better. Deleted it promptly after.

The layout is really customizable. This is mine atm:
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Sags
I've never used Opera before until now and I'm loving it biggrin.gif.

Thanks for the thread and notifying me that other browsers exist (other then IE, Firefox, etc)

I'm not much of a tech savvy
reyndur
been using Opera for quite awhile - love it - it's pretty configurable and uses basic .ini files that you can manually edit (if your into that sort of thing) - I have my configuration files and customized skin saved so I can just drop them back in after I do a clean install or OS reinstall - I'm kinda geeky like that happy.gif

aside from the built-in spell checker that you can use in fields you can add an option to the right-click context menu to look up the meaning of a word in a page using a (free) little dictionary/thesaurus program for Windows called WordWeb (cool little app even if you don't use it for that - resides in your notification area - - check it out!)

they made a lot of changes in 10 - I'm happy with it (finally, automatic updates!) - a background image for speed dial is kinda cool (and they finally started calling the bookmarks file "bookmarks") - it's the little things I like

(they also provide pretty good support for Linux even though they're proprietary software - I've always liked that even if the open-source fans have problems with it)

QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 6 2009, 05:18 AM) *
There is quite a lot of incompatibility though, that's the main drag for me. A lot less than i had with Chrome... some drop down menu's don't work (Amazon) and various other things. Sometimes it just messes up a page completely. I'll use it a lot, but not all the time.

yeah, unfortunately there are some sites (usually with poorly coded JavaScript based forms) that absolutely will not work in Opera (there are some survey sites that I've always had problems with, for instance) - you can add a button to the main toolbar to open the current page in Firefox (and/or IE for that matter) - comes in handy

there's a page where you can get the buttons and just drag-n-drop them to the toolbar - (you can also add little icons to the skin for them but I won't go into all that) and there's another site that has other tips&tweaks (it has info on adding the "WordWeb" selection to the context menu that I mentioned earlier and adding icons to the skins) -- I don't think I can post links here yet but I'll ask if I can for this

Edit by Arianna: posted links as per PM.
http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons

http://www.aimwell.org/Help/Tips/tips.html
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