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First Beta of Opera 10 Released
Miladinoski writes "Opera Software ASA today released the first beta of their tenth version of the Opera browser. In addition to the browser's known features, like mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, voice navigation, mail and RSS support, speed dial and so forth, it now includes a Turbo mode which unclogs your connection to get faster browsing, a new interface, a tabbed browsing update and customizable speed dial. Opera 10 continues to follow the web standards by getting 100/100 and pixel-perfect scores on the Acid3 test. The beta is currently available for every modern OS platform."
Seems quite fast, even compared to regular Opera. Entire pages just appear, rather than slowly loading/displaying...
Kudos to the team!
The link to the "Turbo Mode" was kinda weak and just went to a Changelog, so I found this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/opera_10_beta_debut/
Dubbed Opera Turbo, the server-side technology reduces the amount of data that must be downloaded to render a given web page. It works by scaling back the size of some images and stripping out certain content types, said Opera spokesman Thomas Ford. Some content based on Adobe Flash, for example, isn't loaded unless a user clicks a button. In essence, Turbo works by establishing a proxy server through which compressed website content is funneled to the browser. It will not work with content that's encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol and delivers a benefit only when used on connections with limited bandwidth.
A fairly interesting concept. I wonder if Firefox is working on something like this. Seems it would be a useful idea to explore at least for embedded devices or when you are tethered through a cell phone or whatnot.
Those are servers of Opera (the company). And they've been doing this for quite some time with their Opera Mini (for Java mobile phones).
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I can confirm that with both Opera and Firefox on Linux (Fedora 10), Slashdot is completely fucked. And they are pretty damn Slashdot-friendly combos.
I'd probably use it more frequenty if it had some Ad blocking capabilities.
It does. Right-click on the page, "Block Content...".
By the way... http://www.opera.com/docs/history/
Integrated content blocking appeared in Opera 9.0, officially released on June 20th, 2006. Almost three years now.
And a little bit of history: http://www.schrode.net/opera/url_filtering/
Rudimentary ad blocking through urlfilter.ini appeared in Opera 6.02, released on May 15th, 2002. So, Opera has effectively had a form of ad-blocking capabilities for over seven years.
It's not as flexible as what you get through specialized Firefox extensions, but it's there, there are pre-made filters available for download, and like I said, it's been a part of the browser for seven years.
I've been a long time Firefox user, played with Chrome, but when I got my EEE 1000HE I decided to try Opera as I'd heard it was fairly fast and I didn't want to slow down that little processor.
Opera is great! Not only did it not slow down, but I got voice command (which I had back with OS/2 Warp too:) which is great given the smaller keyboard. Its fast, works well, and I appreciate the built in bit torrent client (I don't need more software to clutter up a Windows box).
Opera - I'm impressed!
Many ads depend on JavaScript and Flash to be served now. From my own experience, turning JavaScript and Flash off globally except for some domains (I'm using Opera 9.64 with sites preferences) will remove 99% of the annoying ads out there. That works across all browsers, that's why I don't need AdBlock Plus when I already have NoScript on Firefox.
Thanks for that, but this is how the uTorrent UI works. The WebUI mimics the Windows UI's functionality, so it's an interactive JavaScript application (using XMLHttpRequest) rather than a set of web pages.
No, I can corroborate that - subject headings still appear in black on dark green in Opera (which they don't in Firefox). Comment titles regularly go white on white, though that can be fixed by doing some random clicky jiggery-pokery.
On the plus side, the actual speed of the site is far better in Opera.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
You guys are either exaggerating or bending the truth.
Or maybe, just maybe, just because you don't experience a bug that it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Secondly, you do realize there are more than just the singular versions of Chromium and Firefox that you use, and as such they may have differing behaviors, or that others may be using completely different browsers altogether, right? But no, it clearly must be people making stuff up.
This reminds of back when the Linux kernel devs would claim their were no response issues desktop Linux because when run on servers with vastly more processors and power that there were no issues.
I'm using 9.64 and can't see comment titles wihtout highlighting them.
http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whitewhite.png
There is couple guys who publish a blocklist you can install to Opera that works by either blocking ads or hiding them in the page, unfortunately it does lack automagic updates or any GUI.
I myself take their blocklist and couple others and combine them with Squid, that way I have identical adblocking for any browser I happen to use on any machine I have.
Maybe someday Opera finally creates a powerful API to extend their browser so AdBlockPlus could be ported to it, or similar app be written. It seems that generally browser makers themselves don't want to include too powerful adblocks by default to their products and that is sad.
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ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/unix/solaris/1000b1/en/
God help us all if a post like yours is modded informative...
Oh, hi. Sorry I didn't recognize your screen name.
I think I found the preference setting that screws everything up. Go to the top of this page (or any story thread page) and click the pen&paper icon in the top right corner. In the 'Viewing' tab there's a setting for 'Enable Dynamic Discussions'. If that's off, you get white on white. If it's on, things look fine. At least for me.
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The moderation system works just fine in "classic" mode, but so does the "white on white" comment title thing.
However, I learned from a post in another thread that clicking "change" in the bar at the top (without changing any thresholds) fixes the problem, and it works for me...
That's not a browser bug. Sometimes ".comment div.title" shows up twice in the CSS and the second appearance takes precedence and turns off the background image.
See http://c.fsdn.com/sd/idlecore-tidied.css?T_2_5_0_258b for an example of the broken css and search for ".comment div.title"
opera:config
->User Prefs
-->Allow script to receive right clicks
how about you post a screenie how you think /. should look like? it looks like this :
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9100/clipboard01sjl.jpg
under Opera.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
I use this: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
It took one minute to copy the file, and I didn't see any ad since then.
Opera has been able to block ads for quite some time now.
Right click on the website, select "Block Content". It will give you a meta-interface to select elements in the page to specifically disable and block in the future. The content you choose to block can be on an individual basis or you can more be more general with wildcards for the url.
The list of supported OSes (so sayth Opera):
Sorry, no AmigaOS
BeOS
Your ad here. Ask me how!
just type /. in the address bar :)
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sites not working in opera aren't opera's fault. it's the designers of those sites who see opera's low marketshare in the US and don't optimize for it. opera however is huge (just passed up IE) in russia.
So, does Opera have any functionality at least as good as AdBlockPlus and NoScript?
They are the /only/ reason I use Firefox. Really, for webbrowsers, AdBlock Plus is the killer app - if Opera can block ads at least that well, I'll be done with Firefox for good. If not, I have no reason to use it.
----AdBlockPlus:
Yes! From-the-box! Just right-click any "blank" (non-image nor Flash, let's say) part of the current displayed page. Then select "Block Content" (shortcut K).
It'll change to an "ad-kill mode", where the page itself gets transparent and only images and flash applets stand out normally (also from iframes).
If you click any of them, Opera will block anything else coming from that url folder (like www.google/ads/, for example).
If you just want to get rid of a single banner/flash, hold shift before clicking them.
Also, you can pre-block hosts via URL filtering urlfilter.ini ( http://www.schrode.net/opera/url_filtering/ ).
----NoScript:
Yes, also another from-the-box feature. For global settings: "Tools" menu -> "Preferences..." -> "Advanced" tab -> "Content" -> Javascript Options button.
Or, for per-site settings, just right-click the current page and select "Edit Site Preferences". You can also set CSS stuff this way, and add Javascript Files to run on some or all sites like on greasemokey.
Ahoy!
OK, just tried MLB.com in Opera 10.0. It seems to work fine, renders similarly to firefox in linux and all the menus work.
Memory is 200M on Linux with 20 tabs open and having been used all day. This is with plugins and scripting enabled. Also, not one crash, and it feels zippy and responsive.