Open your Wings with Opera 10

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Open your Wings with Opera 10​

Opera one of the popular browser has finally released the Beta version of its upcoming browser.. Opera renowned as the fastest browser has yet again set a benchmark by providing the leading edge innovation and hassle free browsing experience to the end user.. With development in full swing, Opera 10 Beta strives to seek and evoke community response to deliver a more user friendly and faster browsing experience..

With Firefox 3.5 development on peek, it was time for Opera developers to hit the nail with some bold release..So lets see how this new beta release perform when we lay our hands on it..

I had lot of Opera experience with its older 8th version but later-on with Firefox gaining momentum and with handful of plug-ins I switched to FF and have been using it for a while..Installation of Opera is undoubtedly the easiest irrespective of the operating system you use. Opera leaves no stone unturned to ease the installation whether you are a Linux, Winodws or MacOSX user.. Developers have added packages for each and every linux distribution for helping you choose the best.. Though a universal repm/deb could have been better …

Opera tries to leverage the gap and fix most of the annoying bugs present in 9.x release. Opera10 is still in Beta phase but the release is very usable and responsive but don't expect it to work like a stable software..Opera 10 features substantial growth in overall package and features a whole set of new tools and engine to boost the browsing experience..

Opera exquisite Speed Dial has gone through major re-haul .You can now add background and increase/decrease number of search ranging from 4-25 depending on your need..



New Customizable Speed Dial

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Opera10 scores a perfect 100 in Acid test compared to 71 of firefox.. Opera 10 brings in some really fast browsing experience courtesy a whole new Presto 2.2 engine.. The new engine provide is far cry from its predecessor and loading as-usual is way better than Firefox..

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Opera offers more juice for users still on dial-up connection with its new Open Turbo extension.. This extension compress the image and lower its quality thus substantially increasing loading time.. This is a welcome addition for MID and users with low speed connection...

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Opera10 has gone through some major rework.. It now uses a whole new QT theme with pleasant colour combination.. The new tabs is more convenient and the overall look is very pleasing.. Stretching the tabs downward will change it into Visual Tabs.. These visuals tabs not only look good but provide a snapshot of the all the loaded pages.. The only gripe is the page viewing are become less and a bit cramped..





New Visual Tabs | New Default Theme​

On top of all these major improvements Opera has added lots of bug fixes and small features. One of them is resizable search field. You can now drag the search field horizontally to increase the typing area for search option..

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Opera has also improved its inbuilt email client and spell checking tools.. Apart from these there is provision for easy update and bug reporting.. Though Firefox too has easy update but its unusable in Linux !



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Opere Inbuilt Mail Client | Opera System Tray Icon showing email notification​

Overall Opera 10 is shaping to be a great browser, Opera 10 will try to lure users with its fast loading and aesthetic UI.. The only gripe I has with Opera is that it is still build on top of QT3 instead of QT4... Being a QT3 application you might have to install extra QT3 library if you are using QT4/KDE4 environment.. I still find it a bit sluggish maybe due to Beta but even the stable 9.x is not as responsive as it should be in QT4 desktop..

Another issue that you are going to face with this Beta release is non-working flash.. With a non working flash all the flash ads/website and video viewing website becomes unusable which is a led down :(

Nonetheless Opera 10 is a great browser worth giving a shot .. Except plethora of FF addons it has everything to please a user ..I will be looking forward for its final release and hopefully it can replace firefox as my main browser..I hope you will have a flamboyant ride with Opera express !

Please digg the preview here http://digg.com/linux_unix/Open_your_Wings_with_Opera_10

Thanks for reading..

Regards

Darky ;)
 
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I've been using Opera since 2005. Never felt to use FF, Chrome. Im on Opera 10 Turbo from past two months, i feel it blazing fast on GPRS, gives me a feel of using broadband. Will try new Opera 10 basic, new UI looks cool..thanks
 
good review.

will wait for final stable version to release.

an opera fan for a long long time. right now on official final 9.64 build.
 
^ Firefox is a copout. The developers barely put in any work into the core browsing experience offloading the entire task to the extension community or shamelessly ripping off anything Opera comes up with.

Opera forever.
 
Ohh and one thing I forgot to mention is memory usage .. Opera only utilize 15Mb compared of 75Mb of Firefox .. I used top to monitor the usage :)
 
Me too waiting for the stable version to release. Opera is the only browser I feel comfortable with, and I have no problems shamelessly declaring myself a die-hard Opera addict..! :p
 
Very good review dude,No doubt Opera fastest lightest browser ever available.Sometime i found Opera better then firefox in terms of stability and resources.
 
nice review...I hav to dl new Opera now :) but I'm a FF3 user as I hav a slow BSNL 144kbps WLL connection at home :( I think Opera needs a little more bandwidth than FF3.
 
Good review mate!! been using this from 2 days ..this is the fastest opera version till date i can say
amazing speeds ..even with my torrents reaching max speeds ,opera loading pages like as if my torrents paused
 
I was eagerly waiting for this release. Downloading it now. I am using Opera as my primary browser since 2006.

Oh! Thanks for such a nice feature review buddy!
 
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