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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: September 01, 2009
- Total Downloads: 8,343,813
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2836 votes
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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's free and innovative Web browser allows you to experience the web on your terms. Discover what over 20 million people have already experienced by downloading Opera's fast and safe Internet browsers. Features include;Speed Dial: Your favorite sites are just one click away.Search Shortcuts: Type your queries directly into the address bar. Trash Can: Instantly reopen recently closed tabs. Opera Link: Opera Link lets you synchronize data of your choice online, or among different computers and devices. Sync your Speed Dial, Bookmarks, Custom Searches, History and Notes between your work and home computer; take your bookmarks with you on your phone. Feed Preview: Preview a Feed by clicking on the feed icon, and you will see it in clean and efficient multiple-column layout. This makes it easier to see a feed's content before subscribing to it -- or even bookmarking it -- and to view what's new in a page quickly, without distractions. New browser engine: We have made the fastest browser in the world even faster with superior support for Web standards. Opera is quicker to start, faster at loading Web pages and better at running your favorite Web applications. Share our passion for technology.
Version 10.0 includes the Opera Turbo compression engine, inline spell check, enhanced Speed Dial, improved e-mail, and an auto-updater.
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Version 10.0 includes the Opera Turbo compression engine, inline spell check, enhanced Speed Dial, improved e-mail, and an auto-updater.
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User reviews of Opera 10.0
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2836 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 10.0
"I know its new... but come on......"
Pros: Its fast, and I do like it... lots of features to go through....
Cons: I have 4 sites so far that wont load properly...
Summary: I have tried the right click and edit site etc etc..... both for IE and for Firefox, and nothing, I have tried both 'mask as' and 'identify as' and nothing, only way I can get them to load properly is to use the 'open with' feature, and then it open... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 10.0
Pros: Better than previous versions and better than IE Safari.
Cons: Firefox and Chrome are better.
Summary: Try it once.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 10.0
Pros: so many features its hard to count
Cons: a few incompatibility problems with a some sites but i haven't found any yet
Summary: download it is jam packed with features
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 10.0
Pros: Cool features. Fun to use. Seems to use a LOT less memory than Firefox.
Cons: Several sites will not load correctly. From my local news paper's site to Microsoft's site.
Summary: It's a good alternate browser to have on hand to play with from time to time. Also good if you have a small amount of memory on your computer. Otherwise, don't set this one as your default.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 10.0
Pros: I'm not sure what they are & I've used both 9.64 & 10.0.
Cons: It fails at simple things that other browsers, such as IE, Chrome + Firefox, can already do & I am no fan of those browsers either. For me, it's those simple things that count.
Summary: It's not for your grandmother (meaning the userfriendliness could improve). I like what I see so far & would be willing to use it again, once the simple things have been fixed.
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