Please welcome Opera Turbo

By Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO. Friday, March 13, 2009 8:05:03 AM

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Opera Turbo Jet plane

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. cool

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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Comments

Tamil Friday, March 13, 2009 8:15:37 AM


I know already . wink

Turbo servers located in Sweden?

Tri M. NguyenTriMN Friday, March 13, 2009 8:26:40 AM

o_O up

Opera Turbo on fast Internet connection makes it very slow xD

DavidSchalandra Friday, March 13, 2009 8:49:05 AM

Speeeeeeeeeeeed! yes

(dug and will test it)

Yeni Setiawansandalian Friday, March 13, 2009 9:08:30 AM

I'm waiting for the linux build bigsmile

Tandder Limatandder Friday, March 13, 2009 9:10:26 AM

More fast! cheers

Zotlan Friday, March 13, 2009 9:26:37 AM

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

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Friday, March 13, 2009 10:04:47 AM

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/

Ubuntunerd ☠ubuntunerd1 Friday, March 13, 2009 11:16:22 AM

ninja ninja ninja ninja ninja ninja bandit hi bye

John BarnettJohn164 Friday, March 13, 2009 12:21:14 PM

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.

Yeni Setiawansandalian Friday, March 13, 2009 1:01:03 PM

^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.

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, March 13, 2009 3:50:17 PM

Shift into Turbo

dirkthetomster Friday, March 13, 2009 5:06:48 PM

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

DanDaComboMan Friday, March 13, 2009 5:22:32 PM

Agree with John164:

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

John BarnettJohn164 Friday, March 13, 2009 5:46:42 PM

Originally posted by sandalian:

Read the lab release



doh

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.

AniltheAks Friday, March 13, 2009 6:31:28 PM

Want one of these kind for symbian mobiles.

Shaunak DeShaunak Friday, March 13, 2009 7:17:41 PM

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.

EVEn5 Friday, March 13, 2009 7:26:12 PM

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

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Friday, March 13, 2009 7:32:56 PM

@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 Friday, March 13, 2009 7:33:18 PM

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.

Andrew NguyenSouthernCross Friday, March 13, 2009 8:43:03 PM

So will this greatly help dial-up users? bigeyes

yeeliberto Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:35:12 AM

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 Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:09:15 AM

Yo no sé p, ¿qué dicen estos acá arriba Yeeli? lol.

Андрейmedweld Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:55:14 AM

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

kalagh Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:23:37 AM

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

Jecken'sJecken Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:35:39 AM

How dis work in nokia n70 ?

Tamil Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:40:35 AM

Originally posted by Jecken:

How dis work in nokia n70 ?

Opera Turbo is for desktop browsers. Use Opera Mini.

Pluto VorletSimplyPluto Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:32:28 PM

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

Jayclutchdude Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:43:46 PM

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

Pluto VorletSimplyPluto Saturday, March 14, 2009 2:02:46 PM

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 Saturday, March 14, 2009 3:57:02 PM

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 Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:06:37 PM

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

purecomedian Saturday, March 14, 2009 6:05:33 PM

turbo all the way ! sweet download

kalagh Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:52:46 PM

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. up

XmoneyX Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:21:09 PM

@kalagh:
Same problem here. Pages won't stop loading.

JuniSexyjuni Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:55:16 AM

Is opera turbo works on java inabled phone like nokia 3110 classic?

kalagh Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:59:22 AM

@Sexyjuni: it's currently only available for desktop version.

JuniSexyjuni Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:08:13 AM

Oh ic,but try to devlope the java verson also.

IsmailSupa1allstar Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:29:00 AM

Wens the java version coming then

JuniSexyjuni Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:53:20 PM

I am waiting for the java verson, i hope it comes soon.

Tamil Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:00:19 PM

rolleyes Opera Mini is already available.

JuniSexyjuni Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:04:14 PM

I am taking about opera turbo

Tamil Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:09:33 PM

Opera Turbo is similar to Opera Mini.

JuniSexyjuni Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:13:17 PM

I thought they said, it's fast as the comparision of opera mini.

Ariesptnariesptn Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:36:58 PM

Even though I will have broadband connection, it will still help save bandwidth in my limited data plan very much. up
Nice...

Marc Smithmsdezigns Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:08:17 PM

will this work on my HTC P3400 handset?

Zotlan Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:36:10 PM

It's for desktop computers.

9r33np34c3 Monday, March 16, 2009 4:42:10 AM

Wow, I'd love new technology... Thanks.

ErErwandi01 Monday, March 16, 2009 7:36:47 AM

whatever...onething that important...."Dont make my Private album to be Publish album any more without telling me " mad

thats a big mistake that have U done !

ErErwandi01 Monday, March 16, 2009 7:42:15 AM

a few weeks ago....my private album appears in sidebar...so every one can see it....what happen with it..?

Tamil Monday, March 16, 2009 8:12:01 AM

@Erwandi01, don't post off-topic comments.

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