Playing with Opera 10, Beta 1: Love it!
Friday, 5. June 2009, 00:10:40
So I installed the first beta of Opera 10 yesterday, and I have to say it's outstandingly great. It's so much faster, in pretty much every way I can measure without, you know, measuring anything.
Facebook is now totally usable, instead of being laggy and slow under the weight of all its javascript. Pages that have been open for weeks load instantly when I check them, instead of grinding on the harddrive for 30 seconds, dredging up old cached images. My 25,000 newsfeed entries can be searched in 1-2 seconds instead of 20-30. It's really outstanding.
There are some bugs: I still can't press ENTER to start a new search after editing the search terms on Google. This started a few weeks ago, breaking the behaviour on Opera 9, but is still broken. It's annoying.
The biggest problem seems to be clicking links in feeds. Almost 100% of the time, the target page will load partially and stop, requiring a manual refresh to make it load completely.
The dictionary seems to be wickedly out of date, and doesn't recognize words like internet or URL.
When you change the behaviour of your address and progress bar, you can easily get the address bar to half-disappear as it shifts too low at the bottom of the screen (I prefer it there, instead of at the top).
Before I turned off all the buttons (I prefer the keyboard for navigation) the skin looked really nice. The tabs especially were very pretty for the 5 minutes I let them live before, again, removing all that fluff from my screen. =)
I love Opera, the browser and the company fill me with warm thoughts. 10 is a remarkable improvement to an incredible product. Good work, Opera team!
Facebook is now totally usable, instead of being laggy and slow under the weight of all its javascript. Pages that have been open for weeks load instantly when I check them, instead of grinding on the harddrive for 30 seconds, dredging up old cached images. My 25,000 newsfeed entries can be searched in 1-2 seconds instead of 20-30. It's really outstanding.
There are some bugs: I still can't press ENTER to start a new search after editing the search terms on Google. This started a few weeks ago, breaking the behaviour on Opera 9, but is still broken. It's annoying.
The biggest problem seems to be clicking links in feeds. Almost 100% of the time, the target page will load partially and stop, requiring a manual refresh to make it load completely.
The dictionary seems to be wickedly out of date, and doesn't recognize words like internet or URL.
When you change the behaviour of your address and progress bar, you can easily get the address bar to half-disappear as it shifts too low at the bottom of the screen (I prefer it there, instead of at the top).
Before I turned off all the buttons (I prefer the keyboard for navigation) the skin looked really nice. The tabs especially were very pretty for the 5 minutes I let them live before, again, removing all that fluff from my screen. =)
I love Opera, the browser and the company fill me with warm thoughts. 10 is a remarkable improvement to an incredible product. Good work, Opera team!
WIDGETIZE
zhouye.ah # 23. October 2009, 16:01