Comments on: Opera 10 Beta ‘Turbo’ – Does It Still Have What It Takes?

By: promo

promo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:43:22 +0000

It’s really interesting, people! I’m impressed!

By: stok

stok — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:45:36 +0000

nice post buddy! thanks!

By: Zimbabalim

Zimbabalim — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:07:16 +0000

“Graphics intensive websites are literally transformed into something not very eye-catching. While this may help in low bandwidth situations, itâ€™s not where the world is going.”

This is rubbish, I was looking for a browser for the little netbook I take overseas and sometimes have to connect via a mobile phone. Having access to this feature and the ability to toggle images without digging into the preferences is very useful. Kudos to Opera for extending the mobile concept to the ‘desktop’. The world is going online, and most of it is low bandwidth.

By: mchlbk

mchlbk — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:24:52 +0000

I need my Firefox addons. Once Opera develops decent addon support I’ll consider it as my main browser but right now it looks like Chrome will get there first.

By: corey

corey — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:45:58 +0000

what is the fastest search engine fire fox or ect.? I need help to fimd the fastest engine can anybody help me out?

By: jiMMy

jiMMy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:45:38 +0000

why move to back icon when i can right-mouse-click and select “back” – unless you are on mac

By: Alphawave

Alphawave — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:39:49 +0000

I am a strong proponent of Opera and have used it for 10+ years. The mouse gesture, ‘rocking left to right buttons’ to go forward, or ‘rocking right to left’ to go back are extreme time savers. Also, the ‘search within page’, by simply pressing the ‘slash’ key and typing a search word, beats all other browsers in speed. Other browsers don’t even come close to Opera in customization. For example, to move tabs to bottom of screen, simply right-click and choose ‘bottom’. Try that with Firefox (or IE).

While I also use Firefox, I hate the fact that every time a new version comes out, extensions quit working! I constantly have to wait for the authors to re-write their code to work with the new Firefox model. With Opera, all ‘extensions’ that I need or use are already built-in, and they ‘just work’ in each new version of Opera.

As a power user, I find Opera beats all the other browsers. I’ve also noticed that when someone bashes Opera, it’s because they have no idea what it is capable of.

By: lolzords

lolzords — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:58:57 +0000

Why not remove them and browse faster then? Using a browser without mouse gestures is almost crippling for me now

By: raider_rava

raider_rava — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:53:07 +0000

Oh damn, what on earth is failfox? Firefox is the best browser…

By: Ivo

Ivo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:23:28 +0000

What Opera is truly magnificent in is delivering an extremely comfortable user experience and incredibly powerful browsing capabilities once you learn a few of its conventions. No, it’s not like your Firefox, so don’t whine around about it or tell me that if I just install 15 firefox plugins I can get the same functionality in some area. With Opera harvesting the fruit of the Internet can be done extremely quickly and with almost no user effort.

Imagine a browser where you just ctrl+shift click 10 items to examine them in a new tab. By the time you’ve finished clicking on the links most of the tabs are already loaded. Found what you wanted? Then you can just dispose of those tabs you don’t need with mouse gestures (takes a fraction of a second and you don’t need to pay any attention at what you’re doing). Closed one you still needed? Just ctrl+z and it’s back. Screen getting full of useless tabs? ctrl+alt+w and they’re all gone. Computer/Browser crashed? Just restart the browser and you’re back at where you were in a matter of seconds.

This whole scenario can be achieved with minimum effort in less than a minute. Yes, Opera is blazing fast and all this functionality is pre-built into the browser.

You will appreciate the speed and ease of navigation with multiple tabs and minimum effort if your work involves using a lot of web interfaces and running multiple work threads at the same time.

Opera is and has always been at the forefront of browser innovation. Many features you see in modern browsers have been implemented inside Opera for years before that – tabbed browsing, customizable search in the toolbar, mouse gestures, full page zooming, speed dial, keeping track of and reopening closed tabs with a single click.