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Opera 11.50 Released
An anonymous reader writes "With a shiny new version of Presto that's apparently up to 20% faster, cool tweaks to Speed Dial, and a bunch of other features and bug fixes, the crazy Norwegians have just launched the latest version of desktop Opera."
20% faster, 20% cooler, and 30% more gray than before.
Quick way to get 30% Funny 70% Troll: defend Opera browser on
I was hoping that this would bring WebGL to the mainline Opera. The shipping Safari should be WebGL enabled soon and Chrome and Firefox are already here.
Why do all mail clients still look like outlook from the 90s? Give me a desktop mail client that looks like gmail and you'll gain a new user.
International pizza delivery is fun http://www.reddit.com/r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza/comments/ib61w/offer_hello_internet_we_launched_a_new_opera/
I downloaded it shortly after the download count exceeded the crew of the Death Star. As of right now, they're well past Rebecca Black dislikes
Seems like the most important part was excluded - the download counter! http://www.opera.com/
Currently, more people have downloaded Opera 11.50 than have disliked Rebecca Black!
Whatever it is, it's notablog.
Lots of bugs left in it. I'm still using it, because it is insanely fast, but I hope they release the next version in a week.
Did they fix the random freezing? No matter what computer I installed Opera on it would always freeze at random times. The interface wouldn't accepted input, it would just still there and then suddenly come back to life a minute later.
I have been a Opera user for close a decade, but their recent updates has hurt its performance (with 60+ tabs and couple of windows open). It gotten so slow, that I had to change my habit and kept less number of tabs open, at which point alternative browsers (e.g. Chrome, Safari, FF) became more viable. I do my primary browsing with Chrome now, I hope that this update fixes the issues and Opera goes back to being as fast as it was under version 10.10.
Now that Tetzchner left, who is going to swim to Norway at for 1 millionth download?
Op-what, now? Is that some sort of web browser or something?
I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
Why not, we still get Linux news here.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Why not, we still get Linux news here.
At least we haven't seen OpenBSD news in a while...
I don't know how many times I have installed and abandoned Opera. I really, really want to like it!
This time it downloaded and installed easily on my Ubuntu box, but when launched it declared that Flash was not installed on my system.
Of course, it is.
Still, clicked through the Adobe website, clicked the "Download" Flash link, and... well, nothing. It just sat there.
Yet again, Chrome wins.
(Tho' I do love Opera on my Android phone)
Three Squirrels
I'm using Debian Squeeze which comes with Firefox 3.5 as default. I was happy with this browser, but I wanted latest and greatest so I upgraded first to 3.6 and then to 4. As much as I liked it, it was very slow - I'm not talking about academic javascript benchmark results, but stuff like opening heavy pages like GMail, or tab animations, various UI stuff, etc. None of it was deal breaking, but hey, after spending as much money on hardware as I have, I really expect things to fly. Instead, I had significant UI lags.
So, I tried Opera. It took some getting used to and it misses some options that I depended on on Iceweasel (namely, being able to not allow sites to define their own fonts), but I mostly found workarounds, and I must say I'm very happy with it.
Opera is much snappier than Firefox and Opera's QT integrates well into my XFCE environment with GTK+ gui style. I don't know what is the problem with firefox - bad 3d drivers (nvidia) or something else, but at this day and age, I really shouldn't have to suffer from slow UI.
I am still to try to replace Thunderbird with Opera's email, and I am looking forward to testing it.
How about a /. poll about the reasons for why Opera keeps having a very low user percentage after 15 years or development? Firefox and Chrome came from nowhere and succeeded, Opera has a small loyal user base and doesn't get any more than that. What I can remember about all those years of using Opera as a browser for compatibility tests is a lot of little details done in very peculiar and non standard ways that made the browser a little annoying to use. I've got a feeling that most of those issues have been fixed but still... look at that red Menu (I've got a blue desktop theme) and that O in my status bar which no other browser dares to touch.
Ok, that's it. Don't bash me too much for these ramblings.
I reached my bandwidth limit for the month so I'm shaped and it's still downloading, can someone confirm if you see the text?
Look. See? This is how you do it.
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I like them a lot, and I've been using them for ages. but with that new numbering scheme, it looks like FFox should overtake them in no time, and then I'll just have to switch ?
Plus, Opera are clearly pussies: .39 upgrades ? really ?
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
Seems like Opera ignores the anti-aliasing settings. I've switched anti aliasing off in both environments, but opera blurs ahead anyway.
And yet, it still can't render CSS3 colors correctly. What's the problem here? Wasn't Opera at the forefront of web standards compliance at one point?
Opera 11.50 "Swordfish" is FAST, & stable!
(Bigtime!)
Far more stable than Opera 11.11 was for me (Opera 11.1 was better) - In fact, I submitted so many bug/crash reports on Opera 11.11, in many of them I wrote that I was going to stop using Opera in lieu of Chromium...
* Guess what? The boys @ Opera stepped up to the plate & hit a home run on Opera "swordfish" 11.50 in my book...
(They have done a great job this round, no questions asked!)
APK
P.S.=> The F A S T E S T & most natively feature-laden browser, just got even BETTER, yet again - time for everyone else to play "catchup ball" & imitate them as-per-usual!
... apk
Turn off automatic zoom.
Well that is because the users couldn't figure out how to get X working. I don't think Slashdot will work well under lynx anymore.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
If you people want to enjoy the Opera browser at its best, then you should customize it; by enabling and customize the mouse gestures, arrange for adding multiple lines of a combination of boomarks and folders on the "personal bar" for quick access to bookmarks, removing unnecessary buttons and adding ones you think you might need.
A preference editor is available by typing the following into the url field: "opera:config"
Improved bookmark handling with Opera seem imo to be something to be desired, at least with versions up to 11.11.
Because it can scroll through a whole page of slashdot comments smoothly. On any zoom setting. Under both linux and windows. But no worries, Firefox fans, you'll get equal performance by FF34872e12.
Too bad hardware acceleration didn't make the cut yet. It was available in a test build though. I'm looking forward to their implementation of hardware acceleration - it uses OpenGL instead of Direct2D on Windows. I've had all kind of problems with Direct2D (namely, it doesn't seem to accelerate much of anything - not even supposedly basic stuff like scrolling).
Freedom is drinking a beer in the park when you're supposed to be at work.
... when they are open source.
Been using opera for good 5 years, but realized, even though it's tab & download management is much superior to other browsers, chrome (and/or firefox) are just easier to get on with, because they are essentially open. If competition can be open, why can't we?
Is the javascript whitelisting comparable to NoScript yet in terms of effectiveness and ease of use? Is there an equivalent to AdBlock Plus and Scrapbook? If a non-firefox browser would incorporate those features as standard and do it well, I would be happy to give them a try. Especially with Firefox's idiotic rapid release numbering scheme I am ready to try some alternatives.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
....often done with more thought and better execution.
Set a wallpaper with Opera in Windows go to your pictures folder and observed unstandard bmp files that do not show up right with Windows Picture Viewier. Never fixed forever...
Slashdot doesn't work well in any browser anymore. ;_;
As of now, Firefox has become so bloated that the only way I can rationalize why I bother with it is because of the robust addon support. That's it. I can no long say it's fast nor easy to use. I've been using Opera on and off, but in the end, I realize I can't survive the internet without AdBlock, Tamper Data, and Firebug, forcing me to come crawling back to the Fox.
Their GUI still looks horrible in OS X. Like a home made app by someone who never heard about the native UI. Besides that there is no real reason to use it. But still I try it every time, just for the fond memories I have of it. Back when Netscape 4 was horrible and Opera 3 ruled them all. And was worth to be payed ... yes, worth it.
"Freiheit ist immer auch die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 - 1919
If your OS ain't Windows, you lose IE, and if your OS ain't OS-X, you lose Safari as well. In other words, if you use bsd, linux or any of the other unixes, your only choices are Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and also throw in Epiphany & Konqueror. Until a couple of months ago, Flock too was available.
I just wish Opera had distributable both .rpm as well as .deb. I also wish updates on Linux were smoother - the few times I've tried it, it ended somewhat disastrously. So I had to use Konqueror, Firefox & Flock (I use different browsers for different websites, depending on what I'm doing @ any given time) If a new versatile browser came along, I'd probably find a use for it as well.
Why not, we still get Linux news here.
At least we haven't seen OpenBSD news in a while...
How about Minix 3? I am interested in that!
I'm currently using Opera 16, testing the new Time Travel function. It really works its wonders, I wonder if Chrome will implement this too in version 287. --Sent from my iBrainimplant
If Opera would integrate a multi-part download manager like DownThemAll for Firefox, I would drop FF immediately. That's the only reason I use FF.
I don't like stand-alone download manager programs running whenever I try to download something. Most of them are really clunky and catch links that I don't want to download through them.
I'm a huge fan of Opera, but the download manager absolutely needs DtA's functionality.
Prior to the 1150 I had no bug issues at all with Opera.
My Bug Beef with 1150 -
***** Suggestion: Since I'm not into the transparent thing. To difficult to read the menus. There should be a way to turn it off in Preferences.
***** IF the Speed Dial icons were not dysfunctional as far as the zoom feature (HOW WE SEE IT WITH OUR EYES), and updated upon touching the adjuster w/out having to restart browser to see changes, AND were somehow SEPARATELY ADJUSTABLE from the rest of the browser, that'd be great.
***** AND if the zoom feature was as it was PRIOR to the 1150 upgrade, I'd have no issues with the 1150.
i LOVED OPERA BEFORE THE 1150 UPGRADE. very content, didn't see need for improvement.
FAST, easy, very cool features etc... BUT now there is a bug in the Speed Dial Visual where the ZOOM feature on bottom right that was similar to IE ( I HATE IE). Now its different and harder to find.
its for my DAD who's older & very NOT PC literate (but learning fast ). I was just getting him to understand this, and now I have to reinstall the earlier version of Opera until I read that the bugs are worked out.
BUT, I cannot figure out how to save all the book marks to re-insert them. Hes running WIN-7 (I HATE WINDOWS 7) - cant seem to find what i need, when i need, inside the system. maybe i'm daft.
Some of the bookmarks are important so I guess I'm going to have to go through EVERY ONE and save manually?
FIX THE BUGS but DON'T CHANGE IT MUCH, OPERA IS THE BEST. Thanks for creating it. I don't even use another anymore. I un-installed Fire Fox after i found opera.
thanks again.
Oh really? Show us CSS radial gradients in Opera, or even working linear gradients