Opera Uses Server Power to Speed up Browsing
Opera Uses Server Power to Speed up Browsing
Posted 03/18/2009 at 12:40pm
| 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.
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winmaster
March 21, 2009 at 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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wk
March 19, 2009 at 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.
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anonuser
March 18, 2009 at 6:58pm
It's actually very old technology that was even used back in AOL days...
But sure, give the creds to Opera team.
Budgetperson
March 18, 2009 at 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!
Geeksquadmyss
March 18, 2009 at 4:29pm
yea i noticed that too, it would be a perfect browser if that problem was address otherwise its great.
SuperiorBeing
March 18, 2009 at 1:59pm
Yet another example of why Opera is the best web browser.
Pity it doesn't work on Opera Mobile.
Geeksquadmyss
March 18, 2009 at 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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