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Please welcome Opera Turbo

By Espen André Øverdahl. Friday, 13. March 2009, 08:05:03

Opera loves speed, we all know that. We work hard to make the browser faster with features that speeds you up, but your connection also has a saying how fast you can go.

That’s why we’ve been working on Opera Turbo, a server-side optimization and compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections by compressing network traffic. This does not only make you surf faster, but also lowers the cost of browsing when you are on a pay per usage plan.

Please not that Turbo is not for everyone. If you're on a 10Mbit fiber connection, you will most likely have no result of enabling Turbo mode. However, imagine you're stuck on an airport with a slow Wi-Fi connection... Well, fire up Turbo and experience improved browsing speed.

Turbo Speed

Today we start our time limited test phase for Opera Turbo. Please read the labs release to learn more about Turbo and download it. You can also see it in action in the following video:

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Tamil # 13. March 2009, 08:15

I know already .

Turbo servers located in Sweden?

TriMN # 13. March 2009, 08:26

o_O

Opera Turbo on fast Internet connection makes it very slow xD

Schalandra # 13. March 2009, 08:49

Speeeeeeeeeeeed!

(dug and will test it)

sandalian # 13. March 2009, 09:08

I'm waiting for the linux build

tandder # 13. March 2009, 09:10

More fast!

Zotlan # 13. March 2009, 09:26

What exactly do you mean by time-limited? When will the Turbo feature stop working?

LorenzoCelsi # 13. March 2009, 10:04

I don't understand one thing.

Back when many people were using dial up connections, all the providers here had a similar service through their proxies. You needed to install a small client that acted like a local proxy, then your regular browser talked with your local proxy and the local proxy with the provider's proxy. It makes sense for an Internet provider to save bandwidth and to give a better service to its paying customers.

My question is: since I guess the "turbo" proxy servers are owned by Opera, what is Opera's gain here? I mean, I guess the hardware for caching and compressing and bandwidth for routing all the traffic of Opera's users do have some cost.

Edit:
Since some time ago Google had this:
http://webaccelerator.google.com/

ubuntunerd1 # 13. March 2009, 11:16

John164 # 13. March 2009, 12:21

My first observations so far are these.

The graphic are more pixeled compared to Opera 10 they don't look clear.

Also I am unable to use Wand with Opera Turbo Wand won't log into the opera pages or any other web pages that require a log in.

sandalian # 13. March 2009, 13:01

^John164
Read the lab release:

Web sites layout and text will look exactly the same, but image resolution may appear considerably lower as a result of the compression.

Chas4 # 13. March 2009, 15:50

Shift into Turbo

thetomster # 13. March 2009, 17:06

... hm, running it right now ...

DaComboMan # 13. March 2009, 17:22

Agree with John164:

"The graphic are more pixeled compared to Opera 10 they don't look clear."

John164 # 13. March 2009, 17:46

Originally posted by sandalian:

Read the lab release

Yes I noticed the statement after I posted my comments, afraid it one of my weakness I must try and remember to search for an answer first before posting.

theAks # 13. March 2009, 18:31

Want one of these kind for symbian mobiles.

Shaunak # 13. March 2009, 19:17

This is similar to a proxy rendering mobile browser isn't it?

@Lorenzo:
Google accelerator basically creates a local cache of web pages. This is a proxy.
I had tried Google accelerator once, it used to freeze and crash frequently.

En5 # 13. March 2009, 19:26

Hi!!!!!!!!!
Where downalds opera turbo?

LorenzoCelsi # 13. March 2009, 19:32

@Shaunak:
Besides the fact that it was a little more complicated than a local cache, Google Web Accelerator had several issues. It was shut down after a while because Google said it was consuming too many of their resources ( ! ) and it seems there were issues related the privacy/security about the cached/routed contents.

Generally speaking I guess any proxy has got the same issues I said, hardware and bandwidth requirements and issues that come from the proxy caching/logging private data.

yeeliberto # 13. March 2009, 19:33

dugg.ed
Ant it is awesome and impressing, the only thing I don't like is that some pages look kinda ugly and some pictures too. But at least I can get to see the idea then I reload it at normal speed if I need it.

fut I find it awesome, so far surfing like 10 minutes on Turbo and saving 20 MG.

SouthernCross # 13. March 2009, 20:43

So will this greatly help dial-up users?

yeeliberto # 14. March 2009, 00:35

Yes, I think so, some pages load slower with Turbo but only of you have a fast connection but with Dial UP it will improve anything except videos (like flash)

Jesús # 14. March 2009, 07:09

Yo no sé

, ¿qué dicen estos acá arriba Yeeli?

medweld # 14. March 2009, 07:55

Опера турбо это таже 10 альфа,у меня на Висте работает очень плохо,медленней и хуже чем Опера 9.64

kalagh # 14. March 2009, 08:23

sounds promising. i'll dl and test it ASAP.

Jecken # 14. March 2009, 11:35

How dis work in nokia n70 ?

Tamil # 14. March 2009, 11:40

Originally posted by Jecken:

How dis work in nokia n70 ?

Opera Turbo is for desktop browsers. Use Opera Mini.

SimplyPluto # 14. March 2009, 13:32

Hey guys, it seems Opera Turbo is already available for unix/linux.
Download here: http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/10-turbo/

clutchdude # 14. March 2009, 13:43

slight negative when viewing images.. obviously distorted...

SimplyPluto # 14. March 2009, 14:02

This is the difference.
The left one is without turbo and the right one is with turbo.

To view a larger image, click these links. Without Turbo = http://files.myopera.com/SimplyPluto/files/WithoutTurbo.PNG and With Turbo = http://files.myopera.com/SimplyPluto/files/WithTurbo.PNG

Zotlan # 14. March 2009, 15:57

Why do people keep going on about the pciture quality? As it says in the labs article.

...but image resolution may appear considerably lower as a result of the compression

yeeliberto # 14. March 2009, 16:06

Oye jesus, dicen que esta bien fregon el Opera Turbo.

purecomedian # 14. March 2009, 18:05

turbo all the way ! sweet download

kalagh # 14. March 2009, 20:52

ok, tested. works properly most of the time but sometimes i get endless page loading (something like stucking at element x/y) and i have to turn it off in order to get the page loaded completely.

nice feature anyway.