Opera 10 Released!

Opera 10.00 has officially been released, with all sorts of new features and improved performance. New features include:

- Redesigned, streamlined skin
- Adjustable visual tabs
- Customizable speed dial
- Spell check
- Hiding of menu bar to maximize screen real estate
- Opera Turbo with automatic optimization
- Opera Link to synchronize Opera browsers across computers
- And much, much more.

Get it now at http://www.opera.com/download
The servers are overloaded now, and it took me repetitive trying every minute for 15 minutes for a successful download to start.

 

Quick official version after a few days in 2 RCs

 

Is Opera 10 better than IE 8?

 

To the OP...thanks! To MaXimus...in my opinion, I don't think this is a question of one browser better than another - though I do admit that for some reason I don't like FF - even the latest stable version. I do like IE8, but playing around with Opera 10, I am now torn between the two. Opera has a few features, which were missing in the earlier editions. Rendering pages is fast. The native skin is clean and minimalistic (much better than the native skin for the last Opera edition), the Turbo feature may be useful under certain conditions. the inline spell check (finally!) is very useful. Unfortunately, Gmail seems to be experiencing some sort of a server glitch, so I have not yet been able to test it out. All sites that I have visited thus far work, which is great!

Edit: Gmail now works fine! All in all, I'd say that Opera 10 was worth waiting for. Now I am wondering what else can they cram into a 6.6 (English Version only) mg installation file. BTW, I opted for an 'upgrade' rather than a 'fresh' install as I have a lot of stuff, which I don't want to mess up by playing around with the Profile switching. You should note that currently I have 3 tabs open and the RAM usage is 122 Megs, which is a little on the high side - at least I think so. Anyways, do give it a shot!

 

Yes. Everything is.

 

ok im gonna try it out

 

OK, so far what I like:

1) Nice style.

2) Nice way of scrolling through the book marks, in IE you had to roll your mouse wheel downwards forever to get to the bookmark you want, in Opera, you just click on MORE and you see the whole remaining list! MUCH faster

3) Facebook chat used to disconnect me from the chat session like every minute until I refresh the page, now I'm constantly connected! VERY USEFUL.


What I disliked:

1) the FILE, EDIT, VIEW, BOOKMARKS, ETC is visible on the top........

2) the way the book marks are managed......I don't want the part which is highlighted in red.........see attachment....

I just want my IE imported favorites to be visible directly, not in a sub-folder, and I want to get rid of the Opera native favorites, I deleted them from within the options of opera, but I can still see them when I click on bookmarks.....

 

1.- Open the File menu and untoggle "Show Menu Bar".

2.- That's how all browsers, to my knowledge, handle imported bookmarks. To move them out of the folder, open the Bookmarks manager. Click on the "Internet Explorer Favorites" folder, and then, use Shift + click to highlight all your bookmarks in that folder. Drag them into the left pane into any other folder, or put them outside a folder.

To delete the Opera folder, click on "Opera" in the left pane, press Delete. To delete the ones not in a folder, click any white space below the Trash in the left pane. Then, select the bookmarks in the right pane and press Delete.

 

Thanks alot Midnight sun!

you solved my bookmarks issue and the menu bar issue perfectly, I decided to keep it though, was nice to know.

final grudge, I feel it is much slower than IE8, I tried having the turbo thing set to Auto, ON, OFF, same result, it takes like 2 -3 seconds of thinking before it switched to a thread on this forum for exactly, whereas IE does it instantly I feel..........

tell that Im just feeling this, or is there something that I need to do?

 

Thanks alot Midnight sun!

you solved my bookmarks issue and the menu bar issue perfectly, I decided to keep it though, was nice to know.

final grudge, I feel it is much slower than IE8, I tried having the turbo thing set to Auto, ON, OFF, same result, it takes like 2 - 7 seconds of thinking before it switched to a thread on this forum for exactly, whereas IE does it instantly I feel..........

is there something that I need to do?

EDIT, same result on other sites! not just this one?

 

Uninstalled, it stands no match against IE's speed.

but it is much much better than FF! God I hate that browser so much.....

 

Opera 10 is still using a lot of ram, even in earlier alpha's and beta's it used a lot.

And also, why after I log into my Opera Link for the first time, I still have to input usernames/passwords onto sites? Isn't it supposed to remember them?

 

Actually using Real Ram or pre-allocating virtual memory?? Use sysinternals vmmap utility to find out.

 

It' either I don't know English well........or you didn't make any sense in your sentence....

 

same speed as chrome+uber fantastic smooth scrolling that google chrome don't and forever will not have.

im keeping Opera10.

 

Memory (Private Working Set) as seen in the Windows task manager.

 

same speed? yeah right.......i just tried it........slowest browser ever.......

unfortunately, i love the interface

 

you don't know the difference between real ram and virtual memory and how to find out how much of each a program is using?

 

So far Apple's Safari is the fastest for me and it does have a nice interface. Opera 10's turbo only works with poor connections and will notify you to turn off the turbo mode if it detects a fast connection. I mainly use IE8 for web compliancy since some sites won't recognize other than the IE browser

 

not everyone had a slow connection as you, so quit trolling.

just because you experience a slow speed over one browser doesn't mean everybody else's browser should be slow as yours.

Opera's *turbo mode claims it works in slow ISP's so you can try it. If it ain't working then its not for you.


IE8 browser FTW!!

There. I just did it for you.

 

Agreed as I find Opera 10 blistering fast. I love the new interface and as always the ultra smooth scrolling in Opera. I still like the layout of FF but IE beats it in performance. I need to put Opera thru it's paces. The thing I hate most about FF is it starts to crawl after a period of time if you don't use a flash blocker although it has gotten better.

So far I like what I see in this release.

 

I like Opera 10. Similar performance to Opera 9.64 and I like the interface more. No problems yet...

 

I also use OperaUSB 10.
It's much faster than IE, sorry, but IE takes a while till it opens, does not respond immediately to commands and does not show the page content as fast as Opera does. Together with, let's say no features compared to Opera I don't think I'll ever use IE again.
Opera 10 is much better than 9.x. I also like the new menu button which appears after I hide the menu. Also, the mouse gestures are superb, together with the overall customization options and the well designed GUI.
I immediately loaded the latest ad block list, installed a flash blocker, configured the mouse gestures and UI, and loaded the whole thing, together with the cache on a RAM disk. Now it's even faster, allows the HDD to turn off while browsing, ...

I also really like the new standard skin which I'll keep for a while now.
Don't know if I'll use the tab preview often, but it looks great and maybe, when I use my tablet PC in portrait mode this will be a great benefit for me.

I only have two small issues with Opera.
I still don't know a way to mark text with images and copy them, I always have to use FF for this.
And Opera 10 does not support the Tablet Input Panel, damn.

However compared with other browsers:
Chrome: Well, it's a fast browser, but also isn't very customizable and has, compared to FF or Opera almost zero features.
IE: It's in-built, it's a great browser, almost every website works with it, sadly it's pretty slow in general use, not site loading, and also has no real features.
FF: The first browser which is comparable to Opera, especially because of all the available plug-ins, sadly it's a ressource hog.
Safari: Never used it on Windows. On Mac OSX I didn't liked it, but maybe it's because I'm not familiar with the whole Apple system and the cumbersome mighty mouse.

I'm also excited to see Opera 10 with Opera Unite, will be even better.

 

Personally, I've not noticed big enough differences between browsers since i have a pretty past internet connection (like 15 mbit down, 5 mbit up).

The main thing that I love about Opera is speed dial.....I know other browsers have stolen it now but i am too used to Opera now and cant stand to switch to any other browser

 

Opera 10 has dethroned IE8 as my default browser. I forgot how to rearrange the links within a folder as they are basically in alphabetical order. Does anyone remember how to do that? I checked options but it's been awhile.

 

How to sort bookmarks in Opera?
Select 'Sort by my order'

 

Thanks that did the trick !

I gotta say Opera 10 is awesome. There isn't one Flash based site that has slowed Opera down. Opera still has the best smooth scrolling of any browser on the market. And Opera is just a very fast browser.

 

I have never really used Opera as frequently as I use Firefox, but it looks great and performs very well. And so far, I have not had any of the memory leak problems that Firefox gets.

 

Opera 10.10 Build 1767 Beta

 

^^ A beta to fix bugs that still run amok within the just released official version. Impressive change log though

" Changelog

User Interface

* Substantially reduced the memory usage and startup time of Opera's history
* Link: Work on checking if there is outstanding data to sync before doing the exit sync
* Added middle click and double click to close tabs
* Crash fixes, including in the Windows panel
* Fixed Bug DSK-119010 (Opera doesn't allow access to longdesc="..." URLs)
* Fixed Bug DSK-262131 (Panel bar open by default when starting Opera for the first time)
* Fixed Bug DSK-262908 (Can't distinguish normal tabs from tabs that need attention in the page cycler)
* Fixed Bug DSK-257203 (Strings don't fit in mail account properties dialog)
* Fixed Bug DSK-261130 (Strings don't fit in Account Properties > Outgoing dialog [ru])
* Fixed Bug DSK-261135 (Strings don't fit in Message Filters dialog [ru])
* Fixed Bug DSK-263283 (Configure Speed Dial can crash Opera)
* Fixed Bug DSK-263527 (No "Open With" in transfer manager)

Core

* Fixed Bug DSK-251118 (URL crash)

Opera Mail/Chat

* Added automatic re-joining of channels in chat (will try a maximum of 20 times to the server and then the channels)
* 4 weeks before a new consistency check
* Don't schedule a database check when creating the account, but after the 4 weeks after that
* Leak fixes, including leak on attachment adding failure
* Fixed Bug DSK-261733 (From is missing on some e-mails in M2): Email address corruption when no space after quote or name
* Fixed Bug DSK-239575 (Zoom box in e-mail compose page is broken)
* Fixed Bug DSK-262732 (Mail header images appear under the mail toolbar buttons)

Opera Unite

* Fixed Bug CORE-21620 (Unite crash)
* Aditional fix for Bug DSK-255935 (Upgrade from non-Unite to Unite build does not add Unite status icon): Changing version numbers to check toolbar upgrade up until 10.10
* Upload service list when (re-)connecting to the proxy. Adjust to send max every 30 seconds if problems when connecting to the proxy
* Fixes for Bug DSK-261243 (UPnP requests even though Unite and service discovery is turned off)
* Fixed Bug DSK-261689 (Opera doesn't connect to proxy if the router doesn't respond to UPnP M-SEARCH)
* Fixed Bug DSK-261871 (Home service opened before installed service is configured)
* Fixed Bug DSK-262772 ("Add new service" goes to unite.opera.com instead of unite.opera.com/services)

BitTorrent

* Fix for non-cached BitTorrent file
* Fix for modal/blocking dialogs for torrents
* Fix for utf-8 encoded name and paths, also assume utf-8 encoding of all strings in accordance to latest BitTorrent specification

Windows

* Fixed version information copyright string
* Menu fixes: Use the system menu height setting for the menus. Use the system menu highlight color blended 20% with the background for the selected menu items. Add some more space for the icons on the left and right. Let the separator in menus start under the text instead of under the icons
* Fixed Bug DSK-193359 (Buttons on the Block content toolbar get displaced in Windows Native skin)
* Fixed Bug DSK-254648 (Crash with certain Chinese IMEs)
* Fixed Bug DSK-260498 (The list of closed tabs needs clicks to be shown)
* Fixed Bug DSK-262357 (Crash related to Unite icon in Windows tray)
* Fixed Bug DSK-263425 (Upgrading single-user install of Opera with no reference in registry causes problems)

Unix

* Fixed bugs related to JavaScript executed by plugins
* Improved chat system tray indication looks (Qt3)
* Make all script execution from plugins on unix synchronous, testing ns4plugins tweak
* Fixed Bug DSK-262813 (Buttons offset in "Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content")
* Fixed Bug DSK-262938 (Missing app icon for Opera in Gnome panel and Applications/Internet/Opera): Fixed the SVG icon to be more compatible
* Partially fixed Bug DSK-212990 (Swfdec doesn't work)
* Fixed Bug DSK-262820 (Downloaded files with spaces are not opened): Added support for quoted arguments
* Fixed Bug DSK-262906 (Not possible to close widget from the task bar)
* Fixed Bug DSK-263684 (KDE not detected in KDE4): + Cleanup
* Fixed Bug DSK-263680 (Opera doesn't start on Mandriva)

Mac

* Fixed version information copyright string
* Enabled plugin JavaScript tweak for direct execution"

cheers ...