Opera 10 Beta Has released, And it has some features that absolutely own FireFox. FF Is SO FAR BEHIND Opera! Mozilla Is focusing on all those little add-ons, where Opera is making the whole browser experience better.
Heres a download Link for those who want to take this amazing re-designed browser out for a spin
Here is an article on Opera 10 Beta
( Original: http://www.betanews.com/article/Opera-10-beta-sports-a-new-look-23-boosted-performance/1244004148 )
(For those that dont know what Speed Dial is, Its basically a page that you can put a bunch of your favourite and most visited web pages (up to 20 with the new update). Speed Dial shows up every time you open a new tab, and incase you are wondering, No, it takes virtually no time to load.
(Here is my Speed Dial:CLICK MEH :3)
I Love It, You should all check it out!!
Heres a download Link for those who want to take this amazing re-designed browser out for a spin
Here is an article on Opera 10 Beta
( Original: http://www.betanews.com/article/Opera-10-beta-sports-a-new-look-23-boosted-performance/1244004148 )
Opera 10 beta sports a new look, 23% boosted performance
A highly revamped rendering engine gives the first public beta of the new Opera browser 28% better performance than the latest stable Firefox.
Tabs in the new default skin are rounded, and arguably look more like tabs. The big surprise -- and certainly Opera's latest submission to the "Now, Why Didn't We Think of That?" department -- is the vertically resizable tab bar. Dragging the grabber down reveals thumbnails of the latest snapshots of the visible open tabs.
This is one of those "Aha!" features that could draw new users to Opera, at least until Firefox or another browser appropriates it. You don't have to reveal the entire thumbnail, so you don't have to consume too much space. Granted, as I've said before in our reviews of Mozilla's mobile browser experiment Fennec, thumbnails aren't always representative of their content. But they do represent multiple open pages more effectively than just their "favicon" icons (which disappear when you drag the tab bar down).
All of a sudden, Firefox is actually behind the ball with respect to an issue it was supposed to have owned: the contents of a newly created tab. While Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 introduces the public for the first time to "favorites" concepts Mozilla Labs began experimenting with last year, Opera is adding some intriguing new features to the Speed Dial feature it introduced in version 9.5. Now you can alter the size of the Speed Dial grid to as much as 5 x 5, and pull up a custom background from your hard drive.
Opera Turbo is a new feature, that makes your pages load faster on a slow internet connection. So, if you have a bad Wi-Fi Signal and your pages take 100 seconds to load without turbo, Turning turbo on could potentally increase the loading speed up to 40% (The page would load in 60 Seconds instead of 100)
Opera Turbo is actually a compression technology that allows you to compress content (like HTML pages), bringing up content 3 or 4 times faster than slower connections and according to Opera, offers broadband-like speeds on dial up. Part of the magic is also achieved by compressing images.
(For those that dont know what Speed Dial is, Its basically a page that you can put a bunch of your favourite and most visited web pages (up to 20 with the new update). Speed Dial shows up every time you open a new tab, and incase you are wondering, No, it takes virtually no time to load.
(Here is my Speed Dial:CLICK MEH :3)
I Love It, You should all check it out!!