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Opera 10.60 released: Faster than the fastest

By Joseph D. Lienjdlien. Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:36:19 PM

10.60, release, geolocation, opera, webm

What is faster than the fastest? Today you can find out with the release of Opera 10.60, featuring a faster JavaScript engine, and many other great improvements.

Today you can experience being the first on the Web in features, speed, and innovation. Opera Software releases the final version of the 10.60 browser with several new features, more user security, and enhanced stability. It is now up to 50 percent faster than Opera 10.54 in various JavaScript tests, such as Peacekeeper (below).

Opera 10.60 features geolocation so that you can share your location with supported websites. If you allow it, Opera's location detection can determine your location by analyzing nearby wireless access points, so you don't even need a GPS! (GPS devices are also supported, if you have one).

Searching is faster and easier as you now can use search suggestions with the search field or search keywords to get search suggestions for selected providers. Currently this is supported for Wikipedia, Bing, and Yandex. We are working on adding other providers.

HTML 5 support is futhered in Opera 10.60, and AppCache now allows developers to make applications that will continue to work without Web access. The high-quality WebM video format is also now supported, making Opera one of the first to support this exciting technology in a final browser.

Also shown in Opera 10.60 are some great new enhancements to the user interface, such as:

A better looking, wide-screen Speed Dial.
Improved tab previews that blend smoothly into the user interface.
A more visible Opera menu that makes it easier to find menu options. The original "O" menu can be enabled by right clicking the menu button, clicking Customize, Appearance..., and then selecting "Images only" from the Style listbox.
Custom icons in visual tabs for internal features.

In addition to all this, there are many stability, security, and performance improvements that make for a solid browser.

Download Opera 10.60 now!

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Tamil # Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:09:06 AM

Ali GrotkowskiAliKira # Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:16:01 AM

I'm rather enjoying this new browser!

All my old favorite features and improvements too!

Abhinavdecodedthought # Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:23:37 AM

Maciek # Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:12:49 AM

And very buggy sadly

FaheemHallx # Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:51:59 AM

Opera debian/ubuntu repository is still at 10.10. Please update package there too.

http://deb.opera.com/opera/

JaredpieRr0Ur # Thursday, July 1, 2010 8:27:41 AM

Никифоров Артём Павловичrhyots # Thursday, July 1, 2010 8:51:20 AM

Wow, now it's fastest browser.

OutsideSpace # Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:30:58 AM

Ironically, the Opera download pages never work for me using the Opera browser, even when I "click here" if it hasn't started automatically. It always works fine on chrome, FF and IE; but to download from Opera I need to right click http://get4.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1060/en/Opera_1060_en_Setup.exe and save as a file...

(and no, I didn't want to search the forums before posting)

dizdizlexik # Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:35:20 AM

Still there are few bugs, but I like it :>

Kenice # Thursday, July 1, 2010 12:01:51 PM

Opera! Opera! Opera! Browsing for the "22nd" century!

petercotomoto # Thursday, July 1, 2010 1:22:25 PM

it's very good. but still the speed dial in chrome better than opera. however opera was the pioneer in inventing speed dial

Vladimirvladrodr # Thursday, July 1, 2010 1:43:00 PM

Downloading.....................................

Admin : Trần Công Tuyểncongtuyenpro # Thursday, July 1, 2010 2:49:44 PM

opera is number one

Hellas # Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:26:58 PM

yay. name of my god is opera

Ramasubramanian Krishnamurthiramasubbusk # Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:13:46 PM

Thanks a lot. Good job!!!

Daviddavidghiz # Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:11:18 PM

thank you so much works like a dream!!

abdul majidabdoell # Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:19:13 PM

thank you so much all my friend

Uncle MickMickeyjoe-Irl # Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:20:44 PM

you now can use search suggestions with the search field

I love this feature, so glad Opera now supports it.

Ray Taaffeuvray1 # Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:47:48 PM

I want to love this browser. It's aesthetically pleasing to look at and fast overall. However, many pages are still not displaying properly (text,images). This has been a bug in previous builds and still remains so. But I haven't given up and hope this will be sorted out in the near future.

RoxasRoxaspro # Thursday, July 1, 2010 9:03:13 PM

I Am a bit confused as to why I can't change the search engine off the speed dial? It has no other engine other then bing

Edit : Issue solved. Never mind

Ayush Mohanayushmohan # Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:42:00 PM

hey facing same issue as Roxas could you help me out man....

Ayush Mohanayushmohan # Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:46:00 PM

also..don't like the fact that the menu bar now has a huge "menu" pasted on it, it looked so much better and compact with just the opera logo also the alignment on the individual tab closing icon appears to be off the right half of the x doesn't seem to be supported which can be a bit of a nag also the large numbers and slightly stretched preview on the speed dial is not very pleasing
that said however these are minor visual bugs which are very puny compared to the efficiency of the browser otherwise...brilliant job *double thumbs up*

Ayush Mohanayushmohan # Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:49:56 PM

sorry to be spelling the little niggles out like this but the location feature which is touted here as novel seems to be off, it indicates my location incorrectly although it s correct to within 15 kms dunno if that's the error range though....

Mark Halsteadmarkhalstead # Friday, July 2, 2010 12:52:41 AM

Very happy to see this finally. The beta versions were frustrating me, but this seems to be working fine. I am becoming increasingly annoyed by the dependence on qt and am glad to see the move away.

Stephen Turrellstve10 # Friday, July 2, 2010 1:09:31 AM

@Ayush "user locations are determined based on a combination of data from users' wifi access points and users' IP addresses."

I have no wifi & its out for me by about 10K

SIDDHANT RAWLEsupersiddhant # Friday, July 2, 2010 6:33:36 AM

SUPERS

Jowin92 # Friday, July 2, 2010 9:44:14 AM

Opera is the best!!!!

Witold Barylukmovax # Friday, July 2, 2010 10:09:18 AM

Originally posted by Hallx:

Opera debian/ubuntu repository is still at 10.10. Please update package there too.

It is already updated.

Do not forgot also about new HTML5 features, like geolocation api, offline cache, web workers, webm support.

EDIT: I'm sorry. You already mentioned it. GREATE! Sorry. Bolding them could be appropriate

Joseph D. Lienjdlien # Friday, July 2, 2010 1:52:57 PM

Thanks for your feedback Ayush.

Originally posted by ayushmohan:

the menu bar now has a huge "menu" pasted on it, it looked so much better and compact with just the opera logo

If you read the section in my article about the Menu Button, it details how to change it back to the previous style.

Originally posted by ayushmohan:

Stretched preview on the speed dial is not very pleasing

Hmm... it is wider, but certainly not "stretched" into an incorrect aspect ratio. This lets you view a bigger thumbnail than before - how is that not pleasing?

JaredpieRr0Ur # Friday, July 2, 2010 2:02:14 PM

Originally posted by jdlien:

how is that not pleasing?

How many speed dials does he have?

I have 3x7 on my netbook and on my other 21" notebook, suite's well I noticed the speed dial change I tell yah. (On a 10.54 snapshot - and I even reverted back to an old one just to see the difference

)

Joseph D. Lienjdlien # Friday, July 2, 2010 7:02:21 PM

Originally posted by Roxaspro:

I can't change the search engine off the speed dial?

This is done from the "Manage Search Engines..." dialog, accessible from the search bar to the right of the address field. View the properties of the search engine that you would like to use, click "Details >>" and check "Use as Speed Dial Search engine".

Ramasubramanian Krishnamurthiramasubbusk # Saturday, July 3, 2010 6:06:24 AM

This release has two regression when compared to 10.50 release.
http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/compare says 10.50 has 78 failures. But when I ran same on 10.60 in my laptop it has 80 failures. This means there is two regression on JavaScript compliance.

JaredpieRr0Ur # Saturday, July 3, 2010 7:14:45 AM

On mine it only reported 74 failures.

Look here if available

Ayush Mohanayushmohan # Saturday, July 3, 2010 4:38:27 PM

@Joseph: yeah i noticed how to change it back almost immediately after posting that, should've edited my comment, my bad

. I dunno, my speed dial tabs do look slightly stretched into an incorrect aspect ratio, maybe i culd show you a screen shot or somenthing... also could you please look into the incorrect location problem, not that its life threatening but it would make a killer point to rub in the face of other browser users

@Stve10: I dunno I do have a wifi access point and in fact since i live in an apartment building at any given point of time I have 8 access points available....

Ayush Mohanayushmohan # Saturday, July 3, 2010 4:41:12 PM

is anyone else experiencing the alignment trouble on the closing x icon on tabs, as i mentioned above? Cause its getting quite nagging now.... its like a parallax error

ANR Daemon # Saturday, July 3, 2010 8:59:23 PM

Did they fixed cookies handling broken in 10.5x ?

Witold Barylukmovax # Sunday, July 4, 2010 1:14:43 AM

Originally posted by ANR Daemon:

Did they fixed cookies handling broken in 10.5x ?

What was wrong with cookies in 10.50? I had no problems, siilary in 10.60. I'm constantly using Ask for cookies, or quickly disabled it using F12. Works perfectly fine.

G.S.Prabhuramanmyprabu # Sunday, July 4, 2010 5:39:09 AM

very good

petercotomoto # Sunday, July 4, 2010 7:07:15 AM

please this question for every one.
i have "samsung corpy pro" and every time i try to download with opera mini. it moves to the phone browser how can i fix this please? is there any thing that i can do about it?

Gabriel duplanfloradomino # Sunday, July 4, 2010 2:35:03 PM

I have internet explorer8 google chrome but opera is the best and the fastest i just love it
thanks Floradomino

Manik Guptamanikgup # Sunday, July 4, 2010 4:35:06 PM

hey i have problem with yahoo mail on opera. i just tried the old yahoo mail once and now i cant switch back to all new yahoo mail. even earlier it has problem with it...

Frederick Rothe IIIfrothe3 # Sunday, July 4, 2010 5:25:23 PM

Love the new Opera. I'm glad that I can speed things up if my mobile is using EDGE.

Eddie Riverseedgar356 # Monday, July 5, 2010 12:15:42 AM

Opera the fastest browser to date!! & I have tested Multi different browsers!(about 150)
Speed is the up most important thing for me as where I live Dial-Up is the ONLY internet service available for this moment! Hopefully that will change soon!

JarleJarles # Monday, July 5, 2010 9:24:49 AM

Is the problem with copy to note and insert note solved?
I'm still using opera 10.10 because this is the latest version where copy to note and insert note work.

Ishan Sharmaishan001 # Monday, July 5, 2010 10:03:39 AM

Originally posted by Jarles:

Is the problem with copy to note and insert note solved?
I'm still using opera 10.10 because this is the latest version where copy to note and insert note work.

Strange! These work fine for me(on both Win XP and 7!) Have you checked out support forum?

JarleJarles # Monday, July 5, 2010 10:13:50 AM

Originally posted by ishan001:

Strange! These work fine for me(on both Win XP and 7!) Have you checked out support forum?

Yes.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=471241

did not solve my problem

Michaelmaitchison # Monday, July 5, 2010 11:53:38 AM

Originally posted by ayushmohan:

the alignment on the individual tab closing icon appears to be off the right half of the x doesn't seem to be supported which can be a bit of a nag also the large numbers and slightly stretched preview on the speed dial is not very pleasing

I noticed this too, only the left half of the Tab close icon is clickable.

I had customised my icons on speed dial, where they were centered and fully visible before they are now stretched to left-right and only the top two thirds of each icon visible. Not nice!!

For those who have trouble getting some webpages to display properly try right clicking the page in question then 'Edit Site Preferences', click 'Network' tab and experiment with 'Mask as..' or 'Identify as...' IE/Firefox. This seems to cure most (not all) problems. The main issues I have are sites with javascript, e.g. some forums I use have javascript text editors which won't display at all in Opera so I have to use IE.

However, Opera is THE BEST browser by far!! Keep up the amazing work guys!!

SUNNYSON2010 # Monday, July 5, 2010 7:56:04 PM

10.60 THE LATEST WEB BROWSER IS REALLY FANTASTIC IN SPEED CONNECTION AS PROCLAIMED BY THE ORGANIZERS. WE ALL COMMEND AND CONGRATULATE THEM FOR FUTURE SUCCESS:

SUNNY

Thymvelialgr # Thursday, July 8, 2010 2:31:52 PM

I have downloaded opera a few days from Linux Mint's repositories and i 'm impressed! You, Opera guys you have done an excellent job. 10.60 is fast, stable, i do like the changes in the layout (though i selected the O/ menu). Some very good new features, both eyecandy and useful... A significant better browsing experience. My only concern is that autocompletion in address field works only for "com" and "org" Unfortunately, "gr" doesnt show up (i ve tried through tools, preferences, advanced, etc)
In any case, well done!

Stephan Eberssystemix # Friday, July 9, 2010 8:52:06 PM

Sorry, but I can't agree to the enthusiastic statements cocerning th speed of opera 10.60. I am using Ubuntu 10.04, when I start with a new session of Ubuntu and start opera, I feel using the acrobat reader instead of opera. It takes more than 10 seconds until the startpage appears. Afterwards, starting opera again it works fast. I am n ot sure, what is goin on there, but with opera 10.10 I could work with it from the beginning very quickly.

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