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First Beta of Opera 10 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-and-shiny dept.

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."

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  1. Re:But there's no AdBlock Plus... by A+Friendly+Troll · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Opera Easter Egg type /. for slashdot.org by locopuyo · · Score: 5, Informative

    just type /. in the address bar :)

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