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Title: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: the_leander on September 01, 2009, 11:43:34 PM
And it runs bloody brilliantly!

Am just waiting for my (admittedly old) theme to get updated for the newer browser as there are a couple of minor niggles that simply weren't there under the previous version.

That said. It's faster, has in-line spelling correction and the caching option (opera turbo) makes it damn nice when my 3G connection decides to take a dump.

Truly, it is a remarkable and worthy upgrade from the 9.6 line.

Available for download here (http://www.opera.com).

--update--

Looks like the twitter widget is broken... So will have to wait for that to get updated. The graphical glitch in the theme sorted itself out, which was nice.

--update 2--

Opera Voice doesn't work, same bug as befell 9.64. If you use text to speech a lot, the only workaround currently is to go back to 9.63
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: Oliver on September 02, 2009, 07:08:26 PM
I'm using it now, under Windows. It's purty too. Been using Opera for years, and mostly happy with it. Main small problem I have; I think some web pages are written with Firefox compatibility in mind, and don't play quite so nice with Opera. Mostly I much prefer the Opera UI, though. Really don't like the way Firefox handles tabs.

I haven't been able to connect to the Debian repositories for a couple of days, so I guess the servers are getting thrashed a bit. Will be nice to have version 10 in Linux, where I spend most of my time now.
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: the_leander on September 05, 2009, 11:42:58 AM
Another update:

Seems that the twitter widget isn't the only one broken - ALL widgets that require net access are now having issues.

And redownloading them doesn't seem to do the job.
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 05, 2009, 10:04:53 PM
Hm, I don't use those widgets (yet)
I just installed Opera 10 on Ubuntu, and damn, it flies! :D
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: Oliver on September 09, 2009, 04:05:48 PM
Anyone using the turbo feature? I guess it may be useful for some people.
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: the_leander on September 09, 2009, 04:59:59 PM
Quote from: Oliver;522548
Anyone using the turbo feature? I guess it may be useful for some people.


Yes, on a heavily capped 3G connection (£15 gets you 3Gb) it's an absolute godsend.

I've saved on average 50Mb or so a day. More thanks to the addition of Fanboy's Opera Adblock list (http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/).

Yes, your images end up looking like arse, but you can reload them in full quality individually if/when you want/need.
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: Argo on September 09, 2009, 06:27:40 PM
Been using it for years. Since version 7, I believe.
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: the_leander on September 09, 2009, 07:39:10 PM
Quote from: Argo;522559
Been using it for years. Since version 7, I believe.


Only 7? I been using it since 3.62 (BeOS) :D
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: the_leander on November 25, 2009, 10:57:01 AM
10.10 is out now, and comes with Opera Unite (http://unite.opera.com).

Still haven't fixed the speech system though.
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: x303 on November 30, 2009, 07:05:34 PM
Quote from: the_leander;522554
Yes, your images end up looking like arse, but you can reload them in full quality individually if/when you want/need.
This is because all pages will be re-routed through the opera servers (hope i've read it correctly). These servers compress everything including all the pictures. So they end up looking like jpeg-25 (or 10 ?) images.*;) That's why opera turbo is so fast.
   
    x303 :D :D :D
Title: Re: Opera 10.0 is out!
Post by: the_leander on December 02, 2009, 08:52:26 AM
Quote from: x303;531966
This is because all pages will be re-routed through the opera servers (hope i've read it correctly).


Correct.

Quote from: x303;531966
These servers compress everything including all the pictures. So they end up looking like jpeg-25 (or 10 ?) images.*;) That's why opera turbo is so fast.


Useful only on slow networks however. Beyond 1Mb throughput it's actually slower in terms of throughput.