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Opera 10 arrives, sleeker and even more useful

Started by dhilipkumar, Sep 02, 2009, 01:53 PM

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dhilipkumar

Opera 10 arrives, sleeker and even more useful

As with previous versions, Opera 10 is fast, configurable, and clean-looking -- and offers just about everything you'd expect in a modern browser, including a pop-up blocker, plug-ins, RSS reader, anti-phishing tool and more. Unlike competing browsers, it also has a surprisingly good e-mail client built into it, with support for POP3 and IMAP servers, the ability to create incoming message rules, and a spam filter. And, as with previous versions, Opera 10 bristles with features too numerous to mention in this short review...yet manages to pack them all in an elegant, simple-to-user interface.

Version 10's new features don't clutter up the browser or make it more difficult to use. In fact, Opera 10's design is sleeker-looking than previous versions.

New features, though, go more than skin deep. Tab handling has been improved, for example; you can now configure the browser so that thumbnails of all of your tabs appear above each tab. The thumbnails are resizable as well.

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Prashanth

Opera 10 Arrives as Promised

Opera, on 01 September 2009, released the final version of the browser - Opera 10. One of the novel cosmetic changes in this version of Opera is the Visual Tabs. Wrapped in a fresh look and promising faster web experience, Opera 10 is available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms in 43 languages here -www.opera.com/browser/download/. Opera 10 will compete with Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 2 (Chrome 3.0 is for developers at the moment), Safari 4.x and Internet Explorer 8.

Last week, Opera had released the Opera 10 release candidate with some cosmetic changes and bug fixes. And now this final build of Opera 10 brings several reasons to use the browser or at least give it a try.
The succeeding version Opera 10.10 is expected to bring Opera Unite feature. Opera Unite feature converts a computer into web server accessible via the Opera browser.

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Let's take a quick look at the features offered in Opera 10.

Opera Turbo:

Based on Opera's new data and image compression technology, Opera Turbo promises to offer increased Internet browsing experience without any hiccups. Opera's Proxy servers are used for data and image compression for managing the Internet bandwidth to suit the users' needs even at crawling network speeds.

Inline Spell check:

Spelling errors can now be corrected quickly since Opera 10 shows dotted lines for all text input fields giving an option to fix it. The spell checker can be disabled or re-enabled from the context menu, which shows up after right-clicking to a text field and uses US English dictionary by default.

Configurable Speed Dial:

Speed dial is an array of configurable shortcuts that allows storing directly access to favorite web pages from 4 to 25 boxes. Also, users can add custom background of their choice in the Speed Dial page.

Auto Update:

From now on Opera 10 will automatically download all the future updates from Opera as and when they're made available. There's also a feature to automatically install updates.

Faster rendering engine:

New Opera Presto 2.2 engine in Opera 10 is claimed to be 40 per cent faster on resource intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook. Opera boasts this browser to be ready for next generation of web applications.

Visual Tabs:

The Tab bar of Opera 10 can show thumbnails of the open pages in the form of visual tabs. Also, the tab position can be changed by right-clicking on the Tab bar and choose Tab Bar Placement to place in on Top, Bottom, Left or Right.




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