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Opera Software on Tuesday released Opera 10.50, calling it the "fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers."
That's a pretty big claim to live up to, and in terms of speed improvements, the latest release includes a new JavaScript engine called Carakan. Combined with the new graphics library (Vega), Opera Software says the end result is "no more waiting around for asite to load."
"Opera 10.50 is the fastest browser in almost all speed tests," said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera. "But, more important than any speed test is the real-world speed during use. We designed Opera 10.50 to be easy to use, while making our unique features stand out, so you can get more out of the Web."
But it's not all about speed. Opera finally includes a Private browsing feature, and it's implementation is a little bit better than its competitors. Rather than open up a brand new session, you can enable Private browsing in a new tab.
Other features include improved standards support for HTML5 and CSS3, the addition of an Opera menu button giving you one-click access to the browser's new features, and support for Windows 7/Vista visuals such as Aero Glass, Aero Peek, and Jump Lists.
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Number Six
March 04, 2010 at 5:18pm
Some things loaded a few milliseconds faster, BFD. Newegg.com gave me "turn on Javascript" errors, and Opera didn't print a UPS RMA label out nicey like IE and FF do. Back to the drawingboard for Opera.
I'll use IE for my office e-mail and FF for everything else.
-Six
nauc
March 03, 2010 at 8:47pm
Meh, Opera 10.5 is much slower than Chrome, at least for me and it's way more complicated then Chrome too. Bye bye Opera... I see no reason to use you!
1337Goose
March 03, 2010 at 3:24pm
Sadly there's still no Linux version. I use Chrome on Linux now, but before Chrome came to prominence, Opera was pretty much the best browser around on Linux.
Hopefully the Linux version is released soon, I've tried it on Windows and it really does feel a lot snappier than 10.10.
~Goose
huhhuh
March 03, 2010 at 10:47am
Can't wait to try it out.
Opera is my default browser for quite some time (since 2003).
I always needed backup browser (IE6 for first few years and FF later on).
Now I only run Opera over all my machines - OS X (SL), WinXP, Win7, Ubuntu.
I love the fact that my front page (thumbnails) and bookmarks are the same all over (includig my java enabled phone).
I use Chrome on my AAOne, and FF on a Win7 - Chrome becuase it's system resources and FF for the cooliris.
RockyTopper
March 03, 2010 at 8:08am
I know this may seem silly, but does opera support WOT? This is such a critical part of my web browsing that I couldn't see myself leaving Chrome for Opera without it.
xtiminator
March 04, 2010 at 11:19am
You can use wot.js to make WOT work in Opera without a bookmarklet. Instructions are in the yellow in the upper right of the page linked to below, and the file to download is wot.js (also on that page). It works very well.
http://extendopera.org/userjs/content/wot-opera
I suggest you save wot.js (you might have to right click the link and save it) to C:\Program Files\Opera\profile
Then open Opera and press Ctrl and F12 and click Advanced->Content->JavaScript Options and select the
C:\Program Files\Opera\profile
directory (or where ever you saved the file). Last, close and restart Opera and you now have WOT in Opera.
gendoikari1
March 03, 2010 at 10:40am
Rather kludgy, but:
http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/wot-bookmarklet-for-safari-and-opera
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