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Opera Uses Server Power to Speed up Browsing

Posted 03/18/09 at 03:40:00 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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Opera’s latest release, dubbed Opera Turbo, touts the ability to use the company’s own server to compress the data transferred by web sites, allowing users on slow Internet connections to surf at a reasonable speed.

According to Opera’s Roberto Mateu, Opera Turbo allows a person’s PC to grab data not just from the site, but also from their very own servers that can compress that site’s text and images by up to 80 percent. It’s recommended that people on connections slower than 100Kbps use the program for optimal results.

You can download Opera Turbo here, from Opera’s site.

 

Image Credit: Opera

COMMENTS:8
TAGS: Internet, Opera, Browsing, Slow
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avatarIf only...

Submitted by winmaster on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 8:53am

If only Opera had released that back when I had dial-up. Well, too late now, I'm rockin' a 256K connection. 

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avatarWOW

Submitted by wk on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 9:53am

SUPER.
my Internet connection is on slow side (about 15 Kb/s) my default browser is Firefox (now 3.1 beta) but Opera Turbo is unbelievably fast. also i have IE 7, Chrome but nothing can reach the performance of Opera Turbo especially on slow connection like mine.

Thanks guys, this will save my time and allow better browsing.

 MPC is my home page

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avatarIt's actually very old

Submitted by anonuser on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 6:58pm

It's actually very old technology that was even used back in AOL days...

But sure, give the creds to Opera team.

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avatarWow that is extremely

Submitted by Budgetperson on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 4:00pm

Wow that is extremely useful. I tried it, and it works really well, and I can really notice a difference in load time! The only problem that I see with it is (and I know it's in beta) that right now the images get compressed far too much, and some of them are fine, but some of them are of very poor quality. '

But overall great idea!

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avatarYep

Submitted by Geeksquadmyss on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 4:29pm

yea i noticed that too, it would be a perfect browser if that problem was address otherwise its great.

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avatarBest Browser

Submitted by SuperiorBeing on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 1:59pm

Yet another example of why Opera is the best web browser.

Pity it doesn't work on Opera Mobile.

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avataroh wow thats inovative!

Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 1:06pm

oh wow thats inovative!

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avatarWOW

Submitted by Geeksquadmyss on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 12:59pm

i just downloaded it and ive used it a little bit and its awesome,its noticeably faster too, i love it so far!

 

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