Slightly ajar

Some news hot off the press. Google now GZIP compresses their web pages, even when you identify as Opera. The effect of this is that Google's pages now will load faster in Opera. This is especially noticeable on text heavy pages, as content such as images are usually compressed to some degree already.

Previously Google was sending text/html to Opera, while sending GZIP'ed content to the other browsers, such as IE and Firefox. This gave the impression that Opera was slower. A big thank you goes out to Google and Hallvord for fixing this issue and allowing Opera an equal footing.