I have a Mac, and I just recently switched to Omniweb when my Firefox
profile got messed up... again.
It's no more stable than Firefox. I hate their search bar. But I can't go
back to Firefox now that I have my visual tabs.
Gallery: Dress rehearsal for Opera 10 beta
by Andy Smith | June 4, 2009 5:42am PDT | Image 1 of 7
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Opera 10 beta is the latest incarnation of a browser that currently lags in sixth place in terms of market share, according to Net Applications. With just 0.72 percent, it trails Internet Explorer (65.5 percent), Firefox (22.5 percent), Safari (8.43 percent), Chrome (1.8 percent) and Netscape (0.74 percent). Charles Mclellan from ZDNet.co.uk leads a tour of the browser.
The new version, released on June 3, is based on the company's Presto 2.2 rendering engine, and introduces a new skin by UK designer Jon Hicks, visual tabs, a new compression technology (Opera Turbo) for faster browsing on slow connections, automatic updating and BitTorrent support, among other features.
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too much screen real estate taken by the visual tabs to have them on constantly and then having to click constantly to see them would be irritating.
they should make it so when you put your cursor over a tab, it immediately shows you a small preview of the page.
to some degree, windows 7 does this but the natural spot to do this is on the tabs--not the tasbar.
they should make it so when you put your cursor over a tab, it immediately shows you a small preview of the page.
to some degree, windows 7 does this but the natural spot to do this is on the tabs--not the tasbar.
Firefox has visual tabs. There's an add-on called tab-side-bar and another called tabscope.
The new Opera Beta is cool, fast and efficient. I was always thought Opera was a well kept secret. I have tried them all and Opera is the best. And, now they have topped themselves by the new beta. It is a must have browser. I love the ease of operation. Jim Mannion
Oops. Sorry for the grammarical error in the second sentence. Please change was to have. JRM-SR
This browser has been my default since 2004. I think it is way overlooked. The new look of beta 10 is absolutely awesome.
The low recognition of Opera it's one of the biggest injustice of the web, but questions of compatibility were very tough to deal some years ago. Standardization is helping what is really good in the web become popular.
Surely, the trend is the growth of other projects challenging the settled patterns.
Surely, the trend is the growth of other projects challenging the settled patterns.
Unfortunately Opera 10 still can't get the basics right.
When I bring up my blog site, the photos are incorrectly
sized, the links do not work, some icons stay fixed when
I resize the window horizontally. None of those problems
occur in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, or IE. Maybe this is
one reason why Opera is last?
When I bring up my blog site, the photos are incorrectly
sized, the links do not work, some icons stay fixed when
I resize the window horizontally. None of those problems
occur in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, or IE. Maybe this is
one reason why Opera is last?
When I benchmarked browsers for my home XP PC, Opera performed very poorly. The top performers, who were only a few points away from each other performance-wise, were IE8, Lunascape (Webkit Mode), Google Chrome, and Safari. After a big drop in performance, the second tier was Firefox and Opera. Finally at the bottom were Flock, Konqueror, K-Meleon, IE7, and Seamonkey. So, will Opera 10 get a speed boost to compete with IE8, Google and Apple?
The Quick preview you describe is already present even in version 9.6 of Opera and it will also remain in version 10
Can't argue with your benchmarks but in day-to-day, normal use Opera definitely feels appreciably faster than IE8 and Firefox. Chrome is fast!
However, I prefer the look and feel of Opera and find it 'nicer'(!) to use.
The tabs are smaller than IE8/Firefox and the whole interface somehow feels neater and more slick. That's why, despite having the others on my PC I use Opera by choice.
However, I prefer the look and feel of Opera and find it 'nicer'(!) to use.
The tabs are smaller than IE8/Firefox and the whole interface somehow feels neater and more slick. That's why, despite having the others on my PC I use Opera by choice.
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