Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:55:09 AM
browsers, opera
Huib today writes “
As a Christmas present, we’re happy to share all the goodies of Opera 10.5 with Presto 2.5 with you in an early pre-alpha release” in
the desktop team’s blog. The build is available in Windows and Mac OS flavours
from labs.opera.com. Unfortunately no Linux or Unix version this time.
The new JavaScript engine is blazingly fast. I normally don’t surf very JavaScript-heavy pages, but even on “normal” pages, the increase in speed is noticable.
The screenshot on the right shows it running under Wine, under real Windows it runs without even a title bar. I do not particularly care for the “minimalistic” user interface, but removing everything seems to be the current hype, and we just have to live with until sanity again prevails.
Fortunately, re-enabling the menu bar is simple (click the red “O” button and select “Show Menu Bar”), although doing that
did crash the build while running under Wine.
As usual with (pre-)alpha releases, be aware of bugs and have backups handy.
Monday, November 23, 2009 7:36:57 AM
browsers, opera
Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite
is out now. Read more about it
in the press release.
It has been a long wait since Opera Unite was
announced in June. Unfortunately, Unite was not quite ready for release in the Opera 10.00 release a few months ago, but had to be delayed to 10.10 today.
The new version has some additional fixes and tweaks over 10.01, read more about it
in the change logs (that was for Windows, they are also available for
Mac and
Unix/Linux).
If you have a good idea for a Unite application, have a look at the
Opera Unite Challenge.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 6:33:41 AM
browsers
Do you know what browser you are using?Perhaps that sounds like a strange question, but it seems that
a lot of people don’t know the brand of their browser. I guess the marketing departments of the browser making companies still have some way to go…
(via the Google blog)
Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:33:22 PM
browsers, opera
About one month after
beta 1, Opera today released
beta 2. It does not contain Opera Unite, but it does have several improvements over beta 1,
as can be seen in the detailed change log.
I have been using Opera 10 as my primary browser for quite some time now, and I find it to be very stable and reliable, and can wholeheartedly recommend it.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:01:09 AM
browsers, beta, opera
Opera Software today released the first beta of Opera 10. Get it while it is hot!
Among the news in 10, compared to 9.64, are:
- Opera Turbo, with speed enhancements for slow networks
- Automatic updates, so you do not have to worry about having the latest version installed
- Crash logging built-in, to help the developers fix any bugs
- Inline spelling checker, an improvement from the spelling checker in previous versions
- 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
- Visual tabs, along with other improvements in the UI
- Significantly improved performance, particularly on CSS/HTML rendering
- Opera Mail HTML Compose support, please do not abuse
My Opera
