Feanor

Like everybody on MyOpera knows, thanks to the message "from above", Opera 10 (the browser) is out. My opinion is the same as usual. Opera is good software, a very good browser with lots of nice options for customizing and an integrated advanced mail client. I would suggest Opera to anybody but in the same time I can't find a reason to prefer Opera over Firefox that is my first option.
Opera 10 was meant to have two major "innovations".
One is the "Turbo" feature for slow speed Internet connections. It works by connecting to a proxy server operated by Opera (the firm) that caches the Web pages and compress them before sending to you, especially images, to reduce the amount of data transferred. Like I said before, this was a common trick in the '90s when many people had dial-up connections.
The other feature is "Unite" but it did not make it to Opera 10 yet, it is still under development. Unite is a webserver that you run on your computer and allows other people to connect to you to browse your pictures or download files. To find other people you can use either their IP address or search among registered users over Opera (the firm) community. It was introduced as "revolutionary" but I can't understand why. Of course it makes it easier for anybody to run a webserver but the concept in itself is not exactly new. And you know, running a server over a personal computer is not always a smart idea, basically because personal computers are not meant to be online 24/7, neither "safe" as servers. When I switch my computer off, my images collection is offline and my friends from Australia can't access it. When my hard disk crashes the collection is lost because I don't do any backup, etc.