Opera 10 Final released!

  • September 1, 2009 7:57 am

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Browser junkies or those of you who aren’t quite down with IE, Firefox, or some of the other competitors in the market who take a special liking to the big red O have reason to go through this Tuesday, September 1st of 2009 a bit happier. The final verision of Opera 10 has been released and is ready for you to give it a full flogging. The most notable feature you’ll notice at first is the more polished interface that looks less 2004 and more 2009. Some would call it very Safari-like. To each his own. A few other features worth mention that even though have been included in other browsers for various lengths of time, having Opera adopt said features only helps us consumers. The features are as follows:

  • In-line spellchecking
  • Auto-update
  • Crash Recovery and Reporting
  • Tab Previews
  • Resizable Searchfield
  • Speed Dial Customization
  • Opera Turbo
  • Rudimentary HTML 5 support

The Opera Turbo is what has many people excited. If you’re not familiar with Opera Mini, it is a very popular (an actually the most downloaded mobile app) mobile web browser that is server/proxy based. The biggest selling point is of course the fact that Opera’s severs crunch down each web page and remove erraneous crap and then spit that revised page to your mobile, greatly speeding up mobile browsing as the heavy lifting is done by a pricy server and not your phones weak browser/processer. Of course, on a computer, especially faster computers and those connected to high speed networks, Opera Turbo probably won’t garner results that are too noticable. Instead, those on older machines or slower networks will turly reap the benefits of this pre-rendered web service.

I’ve been using Opera 10 throughout the beta process and have watched it come along. While web-kit browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and Safari 4 still have a pretty big lead in raw speed when compared to Opera 10, the updated look, ability for add-ons and plugins as well as themes and other nifty customization features should give many people a reason to stay on team red.

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    The Opera 10 internet browsers is so well thought and designed very beautifully so that even a beginner can have a crack at and have so much fun. After all it is a mobile browser design for the well connected mobile community from around the world.

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  • tim

    The turbo doesn’t work when you conncet via uk Orange gprs connection, like when connecting laptop to internet using mobile phone’s data bundle. It comes up “bad gateway”. ALternative is to use opera mini on laptop with a “java emulator” (I had to google it).

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