Opera 10 is just too good to ignore

20. I've been using opera from its version 5.xx or something.. i remember looking for serials to crack opera and i loved opera since then.. while firefox was still dealing with its tabs and bookmark and crashing problems... and i.e didnt even know tabs exsisted and was hub for hackers and viruses.

recently after linux got popular all the open source people started fixing firefox and now it quite a good browser to use. I like the firefox 3 cause it lil faster in surfing videos and facebook works in it just fine.. opera and facebook don't go well for me..but with latest 10 facebook works fine.. kinda moody sometimes.

I hope opera gets the recognition which it needs. I am keeping i.e just because Microsoft needs it.. my os needs it for its updates.. it's ****.. i would prefer a scorpion over it.

thanx such a wonderful review

19. I have recently started using Opera & think it is great. The best features are the built-in Email & torrent-download app.

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18. @ripsnorter - LOL

@wikiterra, loius058 - Opera already has those adblock, noscript and a firebug-like dev tool built in. One thing I like about Opera, it doesn't need ADD-ONS!!

@gandharva81 - joke post? If not: http://files.myopera.com/Okra/blog/DSCF0127.jpg

@lovlid - "an idiot that clearly doesn't like IE in a big way." Noone likes IE in a big way, they''d be an idiot if they did

17. The very ignorance that keeps good software from being appreciated.....

16. Written by an idiot that clearly doesn't like IE in a big way.

He says "give it a try"

I say "Its been around long enough, and its still a failure"

If it was any good, it would have caught on by now, but it hasn't. It needs to go the same as netscape and die already.

How much did they pay you to write this tat Mr Marshall?

15. I think one of the big reasons for Opera being this ignored is because they were late on the free browser band wagon.. Although its one of the oldest browsers, at first you had to pay for it, otherwise, they'de show obnoxious adds that was very distracting. Its either that or the Norwegians are really bad at marketing. Anyway, now it doesn't have these issues and its like all the other browsers out there.

14. Oh really, but i have no knowledge about this explorer i always liker Internet Explorer..

thanx

13. They dumped the ads in 2005 :)

12. Does Opera still force adverts on you? I tried it a few years ago (version 5? 6?) & quite liked it but the force fed advertising banners really put me off.

11. kasino72, only if you are corrupted chavy person working for the mayor

10. Pimlicosound, here are some quick and dirty numbers: Memory footprint with TR homepage only is 51MB, Sunspider 3,529.0ms (reasonably fast Core 2 Duo machine, same one I do all the browser tests on).

That's basically Firefox territory - a lot faster than IE (which gets scores in the 5,000ms area) and behind Chrome (sub-1,000ms).

Which is pretty much what I expected :)

9. ScottGilbert: are those the good points? ;-)

8. Wikiterra, it doesn't have those specific extensions but the content blocker is decent, you can get add-ons to block Flash (eg Flashblock is available for Opera 9, not sure about 10 yet) and you can turn JavaScript on or off in Quick Preferences. It takes a bit more fiddling than installing FF extensions does, but it's still entirely doable. And of course, there are always ad-blocking proxies such as Privoxy for serious filtering.

I think one of the key reasons people stick with what they've got - so for example I'm writing this in Firefox - is because doing things differently can be a pain at first. So you download, say, Opera and go "aaagh, need to do this, need to do that, where's X gone, oh god I need to hit a deadline, maybe I'll look at it later."

Or maybe that's just me :)

7. Pimlicosound, I haven't benchmarked it yet but on netbooks the Turbo feature should be pretty interesting. It uses server-side compression to squeeze web content, and it's designed for slow/crowded connections - eg public Wi-Fi. It's pretty effective.

The interface is completely customisable too, so for example if you don't like the visual tabs you can just drag them to normal ones, and it's easy to show/hide other browser elements. There's a full screen mode and extensive keyboard shortcuts to do pretty much everything without resorting to the horrible trackpad on netbooks too.

I'll do some benchmarks later on and post 'em here if that's any help. My gut feeling is that it'll be closer to IE than Chrome in the JavaScript stakes - if you're a keen Google Apps user then Chrome is really the browser to use for that - and somewhere in the middle memory footprint-wise, but that's countered by the range of features (integrated bittorrent, feeds, content blocking etc etc etc).

6. No, Opera will not get Adblock Plus, Firebug or most of the firefox add-ons, because those belong to FIREFOX, and it depends on the developer of each one of the add-ons whether they want to port it to Opera, which will be no in MANY cases. One of the reasons why I like Firefox better. ADD-ONS!!!

5. How is Opera 10 on a netbook? Can the interface be trimmed town to a mere centimetre of screen space, like Firefox 3? Does it have a large or small memory footprint?

4. When Opera gets Firebug, NoScript, AdBlock+, I will use it regularly. Until then, it's just a highly efficient browser for people who don't develop, and like to see obnoxious flash ads fly across their screen.

3. Cmon living in Doncaster isn’t that bad. Is it?

Ok, we have a lot of negativity i.e. the corruption in local politics, corruption in the local college and a serial flasher and continuous violence from 10year olds and a reputation for binge drinking, failings in children's social services, lack of parking facilities for people wanting to go shopping in town, but cant because there are no shops in town as they have become pubs.

Or they don’t go into town because it is full of smackheads walking about with their Carlsberg’s energy drink.

Or could it be the fact the new transport system that allows the buses to cross the oncoming traffic towards the Dome (aka chav’s home) and back across again all in the name of public transport??

Or it could be the strange furniture (mushrooms, concrete balls etc) that have popped up in the name of street art

Or Solicitor’s making £30m from sick miners' compensation scheme

That all I have to say about Doncaster, lets talk about the good things…….

2. Mr. Gary Marshall. I have been waiting for someone on a well know site to recognize this browser. I have been using Opera for ages now. But upon seeing the stats, I was shocked! Firefox and IE owned almost all of the market and Opera's share didn't even break the 1 percent mark. Even Chrome which came out a year ago has more market share. So, I thought that the others were light years ahead of Opera.. Well, the majority is always right right? So, I tried out Firefox 3.. And then Chrome.. And then Safari.. And then IE 7 (ironically). I could not believe what happened. None of them were as good as opera.. Now, I'm not being biased or anything, i'm just an objective user who uses the browser thats the best to browse with.. opera is the most complete browser out there. I use 9.64 which was the last full release. From speed dials to the download manager to the feed reader, everything is first rate. Opera even invented tabbed browsing. And also, you should also include opera on the benchmarks that you do. Everyone should try it out once. If you don't like it, you can always revert back,, its free after all.. Opera is by far the best, most fully featured browser out there.. And also probably one of the most under hyped and under appreciated software out there...