Opera 10 Beta Released With Faster Performance, New Tab Thumbnails


June 3rd, 2009 by Jeffrey L. Wilson  

opera10Today, Opera released the first beta of Opera 10, the latest version of  Opera’s Web browser. It includes a number of features that should appeal to long-time Opera users and those that have yet to give it a go.

  • Opera Turbo: Uses compression technology to give dial-up connections broadband-like speed.
  • Increased Performance: Opera states that the revamped browser is over 40% faster than Opera 9.6. In our brief tests, the content-heavy Foxnews loaded in 8.1 seconds (compared to 7.8 within Google Chrome). Previously versions of Opera lagged a bit when opening Gmail, but Opera 10 loaded the popular e-mail service in a swift 2.8 seconds.

  • Revamped Tabbed Browsing: The tab bar is now resizeable. When you pull down the tab bar, the tabs expand into boxes containing thumbnails of all of your open tabs. Very cool for quickly surveying which pages you have open. When you mouse over a tab, you’re presented with an even larger view of the thumbnail.
  • Expanded Speed Dial: The short cut grid now supports up to 25 favorites, displayed in a 5 x 5 grid. When you open a blank tab, click “Configure Speed Dial” to select either a 2 x 2, 3 x 3, 4 x 3, 4 x 4, 5 x 4, or 5 x 5 layout. In addition,  you can add a background image to give the browser extra spice.
  • Enhanced e-mail: The integrated e-mail client has been updated to include rich text editing, and in-line images.

Best of all, Opera 10 is available for all platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Poll time! Which browser do you prefer?

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2 Responses to “Opera 10 Beta Released With Faster Performance, New Tab Thumbnails”

  1. Bobby Fisher Says:

    People still use this browser?

  2. Agung Says:

    This is my favourite browser, doing lot of websurfing with Opera. In developed country (like ours) where internet-connection speed is limited, Opera technology will really helpfull. For a note, i need 23 secs to open blog.laptopmag.com first time, then 15 secs in other day using Opera. That >30% faster. You will not feel the difference if you on > 1 Mbps internet speed..

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