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Opera Browser

Version: 10.10

Downloads Count: 16,538

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Nov 28, 2009

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Requirements: 20MB free disk space

File Size: 8877 KB

Author: Opera

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Editorial Review of Opera Browser

Opera has always been a try-harder browser packed with features. Despite this, it has not yet managed to get the same kind of publicity that Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome garner. And that's a shame, because this new version of the venerable browser adds a slew of clever features that will be welcome to anyone who surfs the Web.

As with previous versions, Opera 10 is fast, configurable, and clean-looking--and offers just about everything you'd expect in a modern browser, including a pop-up blocker, plug-ins, RSS reader, anti-phishing tool and more. Unlike competing browsers, it also has a surprisingly good e-mail client built into it, with support for POP3 and IMAP servers, the ability to create incoming message rules, and a spam filter. And, as with previous versions, Opera 10 bristles with features too numerous to mention in this short review...yet manages to pack them all in an elegant, simple-to-user interface.

Version 10's new features don't clutter up the browser or make it more difficult to use. Overall, Opera 10's design is sleeker-looking than previous versions. New features, though, go more than skin deep. Tab handling has been improved, for example; you can now configure the browser so that thumbnails of all of your tabs appear above each tab. The thumbnails are resizable as well.

The new Speed Dial feature is also worthy. Similar to Safari 4's Top Sites feature, Speed Dial improves on Top Sites by virtue of being more configurable. Whenever you open a new tab in Opera, you can customize the page that appears, to have anywhere from four to 24 of your favorite Web sites displayed as thumbnails. That way, you can more quickly get to the sites you visit most often by clicking on a thumbnail. The feature is turned on by default, and there appears to be no way to turn it off--not that you'd want to, because there's no downside to it.

Opera always displayed pages quickly, and the newest version displays them with even more speed, particularly on interactive sites that use a lot of resources such as Gmail and Facebook. Opera claims a 40 percent speed bump, although we could not verify that assertion.

There are lots of other new features as well, such as an inline spellchecker that will be particularly welcome to bloggers; and Opera Turbo, a compression technology which Opera claims allows you to surf faster on slow connections such as via dial-up. As a broadband user, I was not able to test this feature, and so I can't vouch for it.

Surprisingly, given how many features Opera has, it is missing one feature that IE, Firefox, and Chrome all have: A privacy mode which lets you surf the Web and then have all traces of a session vanish after you close the browser. If that feature is important to you, you won't want Opera.

So should you replace your current browser with Opera? Browser choice is exceedingly personal and idiosyncratic, so we can't give you a one-size-fits-all answer. But anyone who wishes his or her current browser were faster and had more features will certainly want to give it a try.

--Preston Gralla

Description of Opera Browser

Opera 10.10 stands out from the crowd with innovative new features wrapped in an elegant, fresh interface. This lightning fast Internet browser is absolutely free, comes in 43 languages, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux. This version of the Opera Web browser introduces a new technology platform, Opera Unite, allowing you to stream music or share files, photos and more, right from the browser. And also includes Opera Turbo, that compresses Web pages, boosting your browsing speed on crowded Wi-Fi hotspots, tethered mobile phones or dial-up connections.

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Most recent User Reviews for Opera Browser

Reviewed by: rschan

09-21-2009

Duration of ownership: 5 Years

Strengths: Speed and its whole page zoom features are incomparable and the single button action is very convenient.

Weaknesses: Can't handle some substandard web page.

Overall Evaluation: Everytime I tried new versions of IE and Firefox I was disappointed and ended up coming back to OPERA. I just can't browse without it. Period.
Reviewed by: jojoma

01-15-2009

Duration of ownership: 5 Years

Strengths: Speed is superior; Opera can be almost exactly configured to fit your needs; it handles graphics easily; it's free

Weaknesses: Opera can't deal very well with sites which don't comply with WWW-standards;

Overall Evaluation: I can't miss it and haven't had a day in the last 5 years that I didn't use it.

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