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Opera 10 Blazes into Beta, Promises 40 Percent Better Performance

Posted 06/04/09 at 03:00:20 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Available in alpha form for some time now, Opera Software has just released its upcoming Opera 10 browser as a beta 1 download.

Speed appears to be the main focus for Opera 10, which sports a new compression technology called Opera Turbo. According to Opera, this will provide "significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections." In general, the company claims up to a 40 percent performance boost in Opera 10 with its Presto 2.2 rendering engine.

Other new features include a customizable Speed Dial for storing 4 to 25 websites, a resizable search field, new visual tabs and sleeker design, and inline spell checker, an a boatload more.

Opera 10 is expected to be released in final form before the end of the year. In the meantime, you can read more about the new browser here, and grab the beta here.

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TAGS: Software, browser, beta, Opera
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Submitted by farlo on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 8:02am

adblock has been around on opera for a while

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block

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Submitted by B.A.Frayd on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 9:43pm

Blah Bla Blah. Does it have Ad block?

 

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Submitted by jwalch.hawk on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 2:29pm

Those all seem like good enhancements to me.  It's funny how since Chrome arrived to the party all the browsers have become concerned with huge speed increases (I guess I'm thinking of Safari in particular for this).  I'm not sure I can see myself using 25 bookmarks often enough to call for having them on the Speed Dial (plus, remembering the hotkeys for that many?), but I suppose the fact that it's of adjustable size is still useful.  One thing I wish they'd do is make the Bookmarks menu at the top show the same context menu when you right-click a bookmark as when you do the same thing in the sidebar version of the Bookmarks area.  I would use this to "Open in New Tab" all the time in Firefox, so it's a little annoying to me that it's absent in Opera.

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