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Opera 10.0 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the making-a-grab-for-two-percent dept.

neonsignal writes "Opera 10 has been released. It now supports rich text email, the 'turbo' Opera proxy server feature, some HTML 5 support, XML 'pretty printing,' extra skinning features, and a 100/100 score in the Acid3 test. There has been no official announcement as yet."

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  1. Don't bother trying it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is a joke of a browser. Just use the industry standard: Internet Explorer. It's fast and extremely secure.

  2. Re:Snappiest beast out there by MenThal · · Score: 5, Informative
    Ex-Opera employee here: Yes, the same code base is used for mobile and device versions of Opera.

    Usually the versions used lags a little behind the desktop version, as a desktop version can allow to use more CPU and memory. No idea if 10.0 is in any mobile versions yet (perhaps Opera Mini is). When I worked there, the Opera 9 code base was starting to get into a lot of mobile projects.

  3. Re:Announced on Twitter by Nadir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh my ${deity}, six hours !!! That's like AGES ago !

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  4. It still fails at my simple CSS test. by TodLiebeck · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I reported this about a year ago. Create a simple page, with two absolute positioned DIVs, nested one inside the other. Resize the browser vertically (but not horizontally). Watch as the DIVs are no longer positioned according to your specification.

    My example: http://echo.nextapp.com/content/test/operacss/

    The consequences get a bit more catastrophic with applications with larger quantities of nested DIVs. Things really start to break when you start measuring using Element.offsetHeight.

    Apologies for posting it here...again...but I'm tired of replying to users who ask "why does component X not render properly in Opera, it passes Acid3 thus something must be wrong with the component."

  5. Re:rendering Slashdot by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can anything??

  6. Re:That is impressive by azior · · Score: 5, Informative

    But does it run on Linux?

    It runs on these OSs:

    • Windows
    • Mac OS X
    • Linux x86 64
    • Linux PowerPC
    • Linux i386
    • FreeBSD i386
    • FreeBSD AMD64
    • Solaris Sparc
    • Solaris Intel
    • QNX
    • OS/2
    • BeOS

    You can also see specialized versions for your distro of choice on their site

  7. Re:That is impressive by hkmwbz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While Opera does have a lot of neat features, Google Gears support and the new fast Javascript engine haven't been released, these features do make web apps such as Gmai, Google Docs and Buxfer a lot better.

    Sorry to disappoint you, but V8, Carakan, etc. are for nothing but bragging rights these days. Someone did an analysis. About 10% at most of CPU cycles were taken up by JavaScript even on sites like Gmail. The real performance gains on real sites today are not JavaScript at all.

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  8. Re:That is impressive by zlogic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some ad servers are deliberately made incompatible with Firefox with Adblock installed, sometimes resulting in javascript alerts, sometimes the page never stops loading because it seems to be trying reloading the banner ad until it succeeds (or perhaps doing some tricky onload callback, I'm not sure). Opera's ad blocker is mostly immune to these tricks, and blocking lists can be easily downloaded from third-party sites. I think what Opera needs more is Flashblock, because pages that suddenly make sounds or start downloading HD videos without asking are disgusting.

  9. Re:rendering Slashdot by sopssa · · Score: 5, Informative

    And besides that Opera is also the most slashdot oriented browser. Just type /. to address bar and off you go to slashdot.