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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.
Opera's latest beta is blazing: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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4.1 starsout of 79 votes
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"For a "user" this is the 1 way to see how behind IE is."
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
Very fast
Easy to customize
Fun to work with
Comes pre-installed with what others call add-ons
Fast even with widgets installed unlike others that tend to be slowCons
Closed source
Opera turbo and bookmark sync can be rather problamatic on Linux
I have problems when logging on to sites if I used a proxy connectionSummary
I have to uninstall FF, chrome and if i could IE.
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"it great an i love it"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
fast quick start excellent
Cons
none as i seen
Summary
if u are looking for a broswer that has sped an lil extra this is the one
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"pretty good browser"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
Fast, intuitive, runs good on older PCs
Cons
doesn't support plugins
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"nice cool super what???/"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
fast but sometime slow and don't show pages right
Cons
very nice thinking
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"not the best"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
great idea havin the speed dial tabs
Cons
but unfortunately the completely lets itself down when displaying images
Summary
nothing more than very very average
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"opera is great.simple and fast to use."
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
speed dial (awasome) moving your mouse over your unopened tabs shows u a quick pic of the screen with out opening it , love it
Cons
had problems with watching the olympics , site was running with silverlight and so it kept crashing.there are way more pros then cons
Summary
if u are looking to run something other then internet explorer then this is the one for u
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"Simply the best :)"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
my favourite browser, I am using for 8 years now and I never have bigger problem. lots of features, integrated email client, mouse gestures and many more..
Cons
Some versions have stability problems, but no big deal;)
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"best for when Internet is anoyingly slow"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
i love the interface which makes the browser look slick and cool. usually when my Internet is just plain slow for no reason this browser is fast.
Cons
some times it doesn't load pages correctly
Summary
over all I like this browser for what it is and they did a great job making it the best it can be.
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"A good browser"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
it's a good free browser
Cons
There are all very similar so it doesn't stand out.
Summary
It's another alternative browser.
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"Fast and convenient"
Version: Opera 10.10
Pros
Does the job
Cons
Crashes sometimes
Summary
Despite finding some occasional flaws, Opera's ease of use and fast action always bring me back to it. I do however have to keep Internet Explorer close at hand though as some websites still do not support Opera, this of course not being Opera's fault I still use it otherwise as it works the cleanest.
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