Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
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Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#2More details from the Opera developer blog can be found here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/12/22/from-all-of-...
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#3Am loving the new Win7 integration with this release. Definitely feels snappier!
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#4Windows 7 user here. It's been a long time since I tried out Opera properly last time, but I have to say this new release is snappy, smooth and very, very clean. And unlike Chrome it actually tries to mimick the native UI conventions without getting boring.
And as other's have mentioned, the Windows 7 add-on features are a nice bonus.
I like this very much.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#5More details from the Opera developer blog can be found here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/12/22/from-all-of-...
>Most interactive dialogs will no longer block tabs or disturb your work flow. Tab specific dialogs (like javascript popups) are displayed as part of the tab in an overlay, so you can easily switch tabs without have to move or close the dialogs.
I really hope this becomes more widespread. I hate greedy focus-grabbing alerts.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#6If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#7If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.
There's AdSweep at http://adsweep.org/ - I've never managed to get it to work on Opera 10 under Ubuntu, but I find it works well on Chrome and plenty of people have given it good reviews.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#8The versioning nomenclature seems somewhat chaotic... here it says 10.5 and their current version is 10.10 and on the linked page they refer to 10.1 and also talk about 10.50.
I guess that 10.10 == 10.1 and 10.5 == 10.50 but it is a bit confusing...
Oh, and the download crashes with SIGBUS on my MacPro running 10.6 :(
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#9I'm a long time user of Opera.
Always surprised why it is very underrated.
Just for the record : * Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines * Opera is the most user friendly browser, it has always been so. (tabs, sync, speed dials, quick preferences, full zoom, email client, irc, skins, notes, downloader (btw, opera has the best "builtin" browser downloader ever, you can actually open files while downloading), history search (yes, opera's history search is the best), debugger and countless of small other useful details & features)
This browser is simply a treasure, yes I have tested every other browser and I keep a copy of FF with a bunch of plugins.
Re: Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster
#10If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.
I'm not sure Privoxy is as smooth as Adblock, but it might be worth a try: http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html#QUICKSTAR...