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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT
- Date added: November 22, 2009
- Total Downloads: 8,441,339
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on September 01, 2009
Opera 10 maintains the program's tradition of striving for the fastest, smallest, and most full-featured browser available. Opera covers the basics with tabbed browsing, mouse-over previews, a customizable search bar, advanced bookmarking tools, and simple integration with e-mail and chat clients. Mouse-gesture support, keyboard shortcuts, and drag-and-drop functionality round out the essentials.
Opera's extras push it to among the top of the class. Integrated theme support previews themes from within the interface, and the new version sports a look that's an attractive balance between "dark" and "light" themes. Opera's desktop widgets can appear anywhere while Opera is running. The Password Manager utility (previously known as the Wand) combines autofill with saved passwords, and it's hard to ignore the addition of torrent support and real-time fraud protection. Opera also includes reasonable antimalware protection courtesy of Haute Secure.
There are other features that should make any nonbeliever do a double take. Opera Link enables Bookmarks, the Personal bar, Speed Dial, and Notes synchronization across all other Opera instances. Quick Find has improved the search tool, allowing for full text searching from the address field, the history panel, and opera:historysearch. We're also fans of the new inline spell checker that supports 51 languages.
Opera 10 expands on these features with Opera Turbo, a compression engine that Opera claims can compress data up to 80 percent before squeezing it through Opera's servers. The optional Turbo mode is intended to help computers with slow data connections perform faster. There's also the new tab bar: double-click or pull down on the bar below the tabs and above the location bar and you get thumbnail previews of each tab. It has also finally received an autoupdater and integrated crash reporting. Opera undoubtedly has what it takes to unseat even the biggest-name browsers. You just need to hear it sing.
Publisher's description
From Opera Software :Opera 10 is a free and innovative Web browser which allows you to experience the web on your terms. Discover what over 40 million people have already experienced by downloading Opera's fast and safe Internet browsers. This latest Opera Web browser version comes with a new streamlined, elegant interface and many innovative cool features, including Opera Turbo, a new compression technology that solves the pain of slow connections, and better tabs as Opera continues pioneering new ways to use tabs. Opera 10 includes other refinements to help you maximize productivity and get more from your Web-browsing experience. The enhanced Speed Dial, automatic updates, new spell checker, enhanced Opera Mail to send rich text messages, and fine-tuning our overall speed, making Opera faster and smoother on resource-intensive pages such as Gmail.
What's new in this version:
Version 10.10 is a recommended upgrade offering new and improved features, including Opera Unite for Web hosting and file sharing, plus security and stability enhancements.More popular Web Browsers downloads
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- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2849 votes
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Version: Opera 10.10
Pros: opera turbo feature is kinda cool and the brower is reasonably fast. Open several tabs at once and theres no problem at all!
Cons: the widgets open in a separte window! they minimize automatically when i surf the web
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Version: Opera 10.10
Pros: Everything.
Cons: It's Not Firefox lol
Summary: I Use This Alongside Firefox Because Firefox Is A Cpu Hog. When I Need Things Done Fast I Use Opera Its Fast Like Mayweather On Paquiao. I Hope Paquiao Beats Him.
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Version: Opera 10.10
"now this is recommended browser"
Pros: installs fast, nice and NON-INTRUSIVE design, fully cusomizable, easy to use, easy to manage bookmarks.
I don't like tabs, so I am happy that I can turn them off. Instead when I open new window its very fast.Cons: Preference area can be improved with built in help to make it more cusomization more easy.
Summary: Comparing with other popular browsers Opera loads fast, easy to use, nice and good looking design which don't obstruct browsing. I did not check for security, but Opera imporved a lot! Worth to try it.
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Version: Opera 10.10
"Great web browser, exceptional features."
Pros: -Opera Unite
-Customizable Skin
-Speed Dial
-Tab thumbnails
-Magic Wand feature
-Tons of Widgets
-Spell checker
-Simple and attractive interface
-Opera turbo
-Built-in PDF viewer
-Download manager
-Built in torrent managerCons: -Not the fastest
-Sometimes flash doesn't load
-Can't access website meant for IE only.
-Turbo makes for less quality images
-Unite isn't exactly refined yetSummary: Opera was probably the last web browser I tried.
With IE I often got viruses, after a month of use Firefox crashed on me and had heavy lag spikes, Chrome crashed when I first downloaded it (albeit it is the browser I used when I can't view con... read more >> -
Version: Opera 10.10
"Opera is the best web browser"
Pros: Opera best web browser
Cons: Opera is the best web browser
Summary: Opera is the best web browser
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