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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."
Opera 10 continues to follow the web standards by getting 100/100 and pixel-perfect scores on the Acid3 test.
Yeah, I think anything running the latest versions of Presto (Opera) & Webkit (Safari, Chrome) are getting 100s. Two nights ago I put the latest and greatest Chrome in WinXP SP3 on my eeePC and got a 100/100 even though it said Linktest failed.
Odd thing is that the more popular a browser or layout engine is, the worse it seems to do on the Acid tests!
My work here is dung.
Unclogs your connection?
So the internet is... like a series of tubes?
Opera follows standards, and Slashdot (even the homepage) looks like shit in Opera.
Really, Slashdot looks like shit in most browsers with blatantly obvious bugs everywhere, like the infamous white on white comment titles.
I guess that means that for all the talk and the bullshit, Slashdot totally hypocritical when it comes to standards.
Fix your fucking code or get off your high horse.
Just FYI: in addition to the beta being available for all modern OSes, I see there is also a version for Windows.
The internet is more like a plumbing trap.
People pour masses of crap down it, but occasionally you need to reach in and search for a valuable item, and you come out covered in shit.
What were we talking about again?
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.
just type /. in the address bar :)
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