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Opera 10.0 is Out - It's Faster Than Your Browser
TychoCelchuuu
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Opera 10 is out today!
For those of you with Opera, or anyone else, really, here's a rundown of some of the cool stuff:
But you probably don't use Opera. You don't care about new stuff for a browser you don't use, do you? Well, you really ought to give Opera a try. It's the best browser, IMO. Here are some of the things people love about it:
Check out their tips page for a quick overview of some neat little things in Opera. Their site is at a crawl right now because most of Russia is downloading 10.0 or something but it'll still load. It'll probably load faster if you download Opera and turn on Turbo.
So why should you pick Opera over Firefox, Chrome, or a sensory deprivation chamber? Well, personally, I really like Opera's stability and functionality right out of the box. It does everything Firefox used to do for me, except it does it without any addons that I have to keep updated, it does it without ever crashing, and it does it without hoovering up memory: Opera might look like it grabs a lot of RAM, but it'll release that RAM if any other program asks for it, something Firefox doesn't do so well. Opera is a very lightweight browser. I have a twitter widget and a weather widget, and those two things plus Greasemonkey scripts recreate everything in Opera that you would need a bunch of extensions for in Firefox.
I also like Opera because it's full-featured. The mouse gestures work great, I can create custom searches easily on the fly, spellcheck is nice, adblock works great, etc. It's not missing anything.
I also like Opera because it makes me feel like a super nerd. 8-) Apparently Opera has like 60% or 30% market share in Russia or something? That's kind of funny.
Download it! Try it out! It's from Nooooorway!
Oh and I forgot to mention the history search. Put "h" before anything you type in the address bar and it will search your history blazingly fast and find exactly the website you visited but couldn't remember.
So! Everyone share your Opera tips! Tell me how you like the new version! Try Opera for the first time and ask us a bunch of questions like in the last thread!
For those of you with Opera, or anyone else, really, here's a rundown of some of the cool stuff:
- Automatic integrated inline spellchecking (I'm using it right now!)
- Visual tabs (you ought to see them, they're neat)
- Customizable Speed Dial size.
- New skin.
- Opera Turbo which makes things load faster. It's kind of a long story.
But you probably don't use Opera. You don't care about new stuff for a browser you don't use, do you? Well, you really ought to give Opera a try. It's the best browser, IMO. Here are some of the things people love about it:
- Ridiculously fast. Yes, I know Chrome is fast. Try Opera.
- Built in adblocking, support for Greasemonkey scripts, mouse gestures, optional voice control, keyboard control, all without any plugins.
- Easy to install/uninstall widgets to add more functionality
- Ridiculously easy to configure; drag and drop or hide any toolbar anywhere right out of the box. I have a slightly odd configuration and it takes me about 10 seconds to recreate it in a clean install of Opera.
- Opera Link/My Opera, which synchronizes your bookmarks and other settings to an online account so that anywhere you use Opera (or the Internet, really) you can have your favorites available.
- Did I mention it's really freaking fast? It's also stable, and INCREDIBLY secure. And I don't mean "I only have 10% of the market share so nobody bothers to hax0r me" secure like Firefox, I mean Opera is actually written as a secure browser. They find and fix holes in the time it takes Firefox coders to add four.
- Free and easy like your mother! Wait no I should stop insulting people I want you to download the cool browser I'm talking about.
Check out their tips page for a quick overview of some neat little things in Opera. Their site is at a crawl right now because most of Russia is downloading 10.0 or something but it'll still load. It'll probably load faster if you download Opera and turn on Turbo.
So why should you pick Opera over Firefox, Chrome, or a sensory deprivation chamber? Well, personally, I really like Opera's stability and functionality right out of the box. It does everything Firefox used to do for me, except it does it without any addons that I have to keep updated, it does it without ever crashing, and it does it without hoovering up memory: Opera might look like it grabs a lot of RAM, but it'll release that RAM if any other program asks for it, something Firefox doesn't do so well. Opera is a very lightweight browser. I have a twitter widget and a weather widget, and those two things plus Greasemonkey scripts recreate everything in Opera that you would need a bunch of extensions for in Firefox.
I also like Opera because it's full-featured. The mouse gestures work great, I can create custom searches easily on the fly, spellcheck is nice, adblock works great, etc. It's not missing anything.
I also like Opera because it makes me feel like a super nerd. 8-) Apparently Opera has like 60% or 30% market share in Russia or something? That's kind of funny.
Download it! Try it out! It's from Nooooorway!
Oh and I forgot to mention the history search. Put "h" before anything you type in the address bar and it will search your history blazingly fast and find exactly the website you visited but couldn't remember.
So! Everyone share your Opera tips! Tell me how you like the new version! Try Opera for the first time and ask us a bunch of questions like in the last thread!
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That said, I should try Opera out again. I used to use Opera back in my college days, and only stopped because Flash content started consistently crashing my browser for some reason.
My Backloggery
Maybe I'll try 10 out, but I'm mostly inclined to wait for Fx 3.6 or 3.7's UI refreshes.
My biggest complaint is the scrolling is far less than smooth.
Meh.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Opera 10 has fixed a whole bunch of that. All the sites I had to still use in IE work absolutely perfect in Opera now.
I've been really, really happy with what they've done so far with 10.
I'd actually avoided trying the Opera 10 Beta/RC, was waiting for the official release. And I would definitely say it's been worth it. Opera's been my main browser since they first tried the free release as part of their 10th anniversary promotion, which was 8.5 back in 2005. I'm sure I don't use even half of the various features and conveniences that are available, but I do love the browser.
I do have a question that I've had for a while now, only brought back up by this release, but how the *fuck* do they pack so many features into this damn thing and keep it at such a small install size? It's utterly ridiculous that they've even added in an English dictionary, Unity (I think) and a number of other features to this release and the Windows setup is *still* only about 6.6MB?
My Netbook should be arriving later today so this is going to be a good day all around. I'll definitely be putting Opera 10 on it immediately, and then maybe screw around with a Linux install or something. Though I doubt the Linux packages for 10 will be ready so soon. That's partly what the dual booting will be for.
How do I move the tabs so they're underneath the address bar?
Gmail is still a little funky, too.
Right click -- remove to get rid of stuff you don't want
Left click on a bar to "select" it then you can change its properties in the appearance window (remove text)
How Appley is it?
As a non-fan of their products I get turned off easily. Is it intuitive in a non-apple way
PSN - sumowot
You can block Javascript, Flash/Java, etc on a per-site basis (or, as with Noscript, block them all universally and then selectively enable each feature for sites as you visit them). Global settings are under Tools->Options->Advanced->Content. To configure site-specific settings right click on the page in question an select "Edit Site Preferences".
what kind of horrible people actually do this on anything but the most obviously malicious sites that they shouldn't even be going to anyway?
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
The flaw in your logic is that all malicious sites are obviously malicious. Besides, how do you know whether or not it's shady until you've already been there? Besides, what do you care how other people choose to browse the Internet?
Anyway, I think that the visual tabs are awesome even though they make me sad because a 1280x800 resolution can't really cut it.
Of course, if you prefer, you can use a non-ugly skin. I'm very utilitarian in my layout. I encourage anyone who uses Opera to post a screenshot so everyone can see the diversity you can get.
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
Dual booting for a browser? :? Why not use the Opera 10 Linux builds?
HolyFUCK? A BEos Build? Yeah, they've got everyone covered on this release.
Yeah, alright.
EDIT: Posting from opera 10 :P
Somehow I hid the main bar and the pop-up menu for it in the bottom right corner disappeared so now I can't get to my preferences. Does anyone know if there are keyboard shortcuts to get to it?
e: Alt+P
Close one.
e2: I can't find the show/hide menu bar button (File, Edit, etc.) Someone point this out for me.
e3: Never mind I figured it out.
I get it firefox, you think 2GB RAM is not enough, but FUCK YOU
I also can't wait to see what happens with Opera Unite. The possibilities are pretty exciting.
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