- September 16, 2009 5:42 am
Ladies and Gentlemen: Start your downloadin’. Mobile users longing for a more enjoyable browsing experience will have a reason to take up gymnastics this fine Wednesday morning with the news that Opera Mini 5 beta is out and ready for your consumption. Building upon the already amazing predecessors, OM 5 adds several key features such as:
- Quicker, more intuitive UI and navigation
- *Skins and Opera Link coming in future 5.x builds*
While all of the features they listed are very welcome additions, the added support for tabbed browsing finally makes Opera Mini a legitimate contender and option in the mobile browser marketplace. Not to mention, with the vast array of devices that Opera Mini supports, it appears that people far and wide will soon be experiencing the web with even greater ease. +1 Opera.
Source: Gizmodo
- September 1, 2009 7:57 am
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:
- Crash Recovery and Reporting
- 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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