Opera 10 Final Version Released!

[Maxxwire]

I have been following the new Opera 10 ever since I downloaded the Alpha release through 3 beta versions plus 2 Release Candidates and just a few hours ago I came across the download for the final version for Windows at...

 

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1000

 

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr44/Maxxwire_Photos/Album%202/OperaSpeedDial-2.png

 

As most of you do I have access to several Browsers on my computer, but Opera 10 is far and away my most favorite browser among them and I just wanted to let my fellow Forum members know of this long awaited release in case some of you might want to find out what has made Opera the 2nd most popularly used Browser in so many parts of the world.

 

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr44/Maxxwire_Photos/Album%202/OperaDesktop.png

 

My Opera 10 Final Release Celebration Desktop.

 

~Maxx~

[Maxxwire]

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr44/Maxxwire_Photos/Album%202/Opera10Sandboxed.png

 

I took some time to go through the over 540 skins that are available in the Opera Browser and found one that I like a little better, changed the color scheme, came up with a new background picture, eliminated the menu bar, added 5 new Speed Dial tiles and this is what my Opera Speed Dial page looks like now. The best part is that there are a virtually infinite number of combinations that I have not even tried yet.

 

~Maxx~

[wozofoz]

Gorgeous

 

Hi Maxx, that looks gorgeous :smile:

 

Just out of curiosity, in This Post you wrote:

You got those poor results because you were using Opera with the default settings. If you want Opera to download 4X faster then go into tools> preferences> advanced> network then reset Max connections to server and Max total connections from their default setting of 8 and 20 respectively to as high as 128 each and then watch Opera fly on that 10MBps Modem of yours. BTW who is your ISP

 

How does the new Opera Turbo feature affect this, do you still need to tweak the connections or did you put them back to Default.

 

The best part is that there are a virtually infinite number of combinations that I have not even tried yet.

 

The weekend is here, or almost, depending on your location. Have fun :mrgreen:

 

All the best, woz of oz

[Maxxwire]

wozofoz- I have only had a limited amount of experience with using Opera Turbo in that I have a Broadband connection. On that connection Opera went from maximum download speeds of about 10 mbps with the default Network settings to over 3X as fast with the Network settings maxed out at 128/128 and because of this radical improvement which by far surpassed the download speed of any other tweaked or untweaked browser I ever used I have left the settings exactly the same ever since...

 

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr44/Maxxwire_Photos/Album%202/opera10b-1.png

 

It would stand to reason that the speed of all Network connections are governed by these Max connections to server and Max total connections settings regardless of the amount of bandwith available. I have used Opera Turbo only with these escalated Network settings and it cut the download time of a 10 MB file over Wi-Fi from an original download time of 240 seconds (yes, 4 entire minutes!) down to just 35 seconds using Opera Turbo at the full 8X compression rate on an an Acer Desktop computer running XP and Opera 10 USB Beta 1 on my 16 GB Toshiba Flash Drive.

 

I would be very interested in any data you could share about how the Network settings influence download times when using the amazing Opera Turbo feature which was specifically designed to boost download speeds over bandwidth challenges Wi-Fi connections.

 

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr44/Maxxwire_Photos/Album%202/opera-turbo.png

 

~Maxx~

[Maxxwire]

wozofoz- Another feature that Opera 10 has is its highly advanced rendering engine which can pass the rigerous Acid 3 Tests which cover 100 of the nooks and crannies of HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, SVG and XML, all through the medium of DOM scripting, a critical requirement for any modern web application which the last time I checked no other Browser but Opera 10 can currently pass on the Windows platform.

 

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr44/Maxxwire_Photos/AAAAcid3.jpg

 

~Maxx~

[wrexe]

Hello Maxxwire, (Opera Guru)

 

Can you set Speed dial as home page for when you start up the browser? i have tried to bookmark the page, but the 'Bookmark Page' button is grayed out.

 

Cheer's wrexe

[danburrito]

wrexe,

 

just hit CTRL+F12 to go to the preferences, then set the startup option to "Start with Speed Dial".

 

http://forums.iobit.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1669&stc=1&d=1252158317

[Maxxwire]

wrexe- Opera Co-Guru danburrito gave you the perfect advise on how to bring up the Speed Dial page when opening Opera. How many Seed Dial tiles did you choose? Better yet post a screencapture showing which of the 100's of options you chose to skin and set up your Speed Dial page!

 

~Maxx~

[danburrito]

Ok, because it is so much fun....

 

P.S.: Also note the three widgets in the corners of the window. They are free and there are many useful widgets out there.

 

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h275/danburrito/IObit/2009-09-05_190727.jpg

[Maxxwire]

danburrito- Onyx_Bull has some great skins for Opera! Are you planning on adding a custom background to your Speed Dial page?

 

~Maxx~

[danburrito]

danburrito- Onyx_Bull has some great skins for Opera! Are you planning on adding a custom background to your Speed Dial page?

 

~Maxx~

 

I have thought about doing that, but I like the simplicity of things, so I may just leave it like it is.

[Maxxwire]

I just got done doing some experiments with the new Opera 10.00 Final Build 1750 that was just released a week ago concerning the amount of RAM that the browser uses to load. I have been doing tests like this for a long time and these are the most shockingly low results that I have seen to date of any of the many browsers that I have tested on my Win Vista computer...

 

Opera 10.00 Normal Loading.............. 21 MB RAM

 

Opera 10.00 Loading into Sandboxie... 25 MB RAM

 

The development team at Opera Software est. 1995 has always had the philosophy that improvements in software are best achieved not by writing more code, but by writing better and more compact code and this philosophy has certainly materialized in this latest browser release.

 

~Maxx~

 

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr44/Maxxwire_Photos/Album%202/operasoftware.jpg