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- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 22, 2009
- Total Downloads: 8,360,863
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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.
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- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2817 votes
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Version: Opera 10.10
"do not upgrade to 10.10 version"
Pros: if you are using a previous version of Opera that works fine, do not upgrade. wait until the bugs fixed.
Cons: many site do not work: facebook, youtube, mercadolibre and belive it or not the operaportal site do not work to.
Summary: wait until bug fixed
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Version: Opera 10.10
"The best browser for its fabulous convenience."
Pros: It is the mostly convenient and fastest browser.
Cons: Only if it is more compatible.
Summary: The mostly convenient browser.
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Version: Opera 10.10
Pros: Two exclusive features I appreciate are turbo drive which speeds things up on slower connections and the page size adjuster..
Cons: It does not have a private security feature that both Chrome and FF have for browsing without a history. Needs a bit of a learning curve.. Sometimes unstable.
Summary: My second browser to FF. A lot of fun to use and very fast with a pethora of features.
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Version: Opera 10.10
"LOVE it ... and I'm not crazy about change!"
Pros: Fast
Many features
CustomizableCons: Not all sites support it.
Summary: It took me a long time to try Firefox, but once I did, I was hooked. I loved all the extensions I can add, and it loaded up a LOT faster than IE. However, the latest versions are big, bloated, has horrible memory leaks in the code, wiped out the inf... read more >>
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Version: Opera 10.10
Pros: On my very old Windows ME machine (256 MB RAM) it gives a modern look.
It works with the most of all pages on the web.
It gives more features then other browsers.Cons: If you are on Youtube you have switch off the Turbo option if you have a fast
modem, because it will cripple the incoming data.Summary: For normal web browsing this is a nice browser, and it runs even on lower and older machines.
It uses not much of the systems memory.
If you don't need to download any video's Opera is good browser.
It is a good IE replacement for... read more >> - See all 10 user reviews Write review
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