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Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT
First time accepted submitter iZarKe writes "Version 11.60 of Opera Browser for Desktop was released today. Significant changes: the inclusion of their new HTML5 rendering engine "Ragnarök", a revamped address bar, full ECMAScript 5.1 support, support for CSS3 Radial Gradients (finally), and a very revamped Mail panel. Originally, these features were set to be released with their next major version, 12.00. However, due to more work needed for the hardware acceleration feature also to be included in Opera 12, the 11.60 intermediary release came to be, as they didn't want to hold back the other new features for that long a time."
As an Opera user, I can safely say that I hear "With firefox, there's an extension for that..." about just about everything that Opera has built-in and yet Opera doesn't get in my way or require me to install untrusted random junk to do it.
Enjoy a decent browser. Personally, I think it's one of the best ever mail clients too.
Dammit, I don't want one program that does everything. I have to imagine how awesome Opera Browser would be if they weren't also focused on a mail client. And vice versa.
"My God...it's full of trolls!"
I completely understand that. I'm on Opera and I've gotten so used to some of the features in Opera that I can't switch to anything else without losing things. I tried Chrome and Firefox but switched back because of a few seemly trivial features that I couldn't do without. Personally, I love the way the Opera does RSS feeds within its email reader and nothing else could do that and the speed dial works so nicely in Opera (although it works pretty well in Chrome too).
As far as website compatibility, I think this issue is nearly gone. Opera supports masking as IE or Firefox which solves most of the very few issues that I encounter and sites that don't work correctly are usually broken in Firefox or Chrome anyway and require IE to work. I've experienced instances of a site displaying strangely in Opera and when I pull up Firefox or Chrome it displays exactly the same strange way.
That's kind of my progression. I'm just so tired of Firefox, now. I've got Chrome loaded on one machine, Opera on another, and I'm kind of seeing which to switch to. I'm leaning Opera.
Firefox (and Chrome, and IE, and Safari) copied pretty much everything from Opera. Tabbed browsing, searching from the address bar, mouse gestures, pop-up blocking, etc., etc., all that was in Opera first (sometimes several years before the others).
Opera is best used with:
a) mouse gestures enabled and customized (customization takes a little work unfortunately, not very intuitive for all options)
b) custom menues (including the removal of navigation tools + adding buttons)
Bookmark management in Opera seem to suck and is the only negative thing I care for mentioning, beside the crippled online bank support (happened twice the last years, very annoying imo).
In the case of tabbed browsing, over a decade before the others.