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Opera 11.10 Final, Opera Turbo now with 4x faster

Published on April 12, 2011 in Opera. 1 Comment

I’ve been abandoned Opera mobile for a while now. Now it seems there is a reason to switch back to Opera. Opera development team has released a new major version, Opera 11.10. In this new update the team has claimed that their new Opera turbo engine is 4 times faster than before. For those who didn’t familiar with Opera turbo, it is useful when you are in slower connection, for example a dial up connection or when you are using a pay per use connection that will charge you by the bytes.

So every bytes of usage is essential when you are with Opera turbo. It will trim down the traffic by caching on Opera server. Personally I’m in loved with this features since the first day they launched it. But after I’ve taken the ride the experience were not so smooth at all. All the images appeared when using Opera turbo seems a bit jagged. That’s a bit turn off. Well what you expect, you lose the file size and you definitely gonna lose some of the image quality right.

After that my normal surfing habit continues using Firefox with Google DNS. It is much better for me. At least for my crappy connection. Thanks to Digi broadband for that.

Ok back on Opera 11.10;

Here’s some comparison of the new technology that built in with Opera 11.10. It’s a new image format called WebP.

Image has been taken from, labnol.

The outcome seems pretty good. With so much file trims and yet the quality of the image still there. I’m gonna run a few test of this new browser tonight. Hope it’s gonna be good from last time.

and some teaser video,

Opera 11 comes with a extension support – Finally!

Published on October 22, 2010 in Opera. 0 Comments

As a Opera fanboy I owe myself to spread the good news that Opera finally open their windows to integrate an extension in their browser (similar to add on in firefox). Yea I know, we didn’t have it before. We just rely on so called widget that supposed to replace add on. It’s a useless feature though.

All this years Opera just rely on its built in features. That’s what make Opera kinda special. There’s no 3′rd party apps allowed to discriminate its stability. It might sounds goody at first, but soon you realized you left too much far behind. It’s a rat race after all. Buckle up Opera dev team! You’ve lot of work to do.

Anyway Opera 11 still in alpha stages and don’t expect much from current extensions library. It still new. Give em some time. Hit the download link if you would like to know how it perfoms. Only Opera 11 supports extensions. It won’t work on older versions.

With the Opera 11 alpha, you can personalize your browser with all your pet features and functionality. From now on, it is you who defines the best experience with the Opera browser.
Our focus when building an extension mechanism has been to enable closer integration with web pages and web applications, and we look forward to see what the creative developer community will come up with.
Opera 11 alpha marks the beginning of the extensions mechanism in Opera. Before Opera 11 goes final we plan to include auto update for the extensions and a few other nice features to expand the functionality exposed to developers.

Opera extensions library

Download Opera 11.00 Alpha [english]

Opera 10.60 Beta Released

Published on June 16, 2010 in Opera. 0 Comments

Changelog
Core
* CORE-1209 (Google Earth links from web sites are not opened properly)
* CORE-29664 (Cafeworld and potentially other Flash games Fails on facebook)
* CORE-19025 (Objects sent with wrong mime-type are shown incorrectly)
* CORE-19738 (application/pls+xml should not be treated as XML)
* CORE-23977 (Performance improvement for plugins and animated content)

SVG
* CORE-28214 (Opera freezes on loading altglyph testcase)
* CORE-27506 (Clip-path should not be applied while painting source graphics for filter effect)
* CORE-28230 (Incorrect handling of empty altGlyph element)
* CORE-28231 (Incorrect handling of filter primitive ‘in’ attribute who match a prefix of a filter source)

FreeBSD/Linux
* CORE-29476 (Plugin window often initially located at 0,0 for a short while)

Opera 10 Release Candidate 2

Published on August 29, 2009 in Opera. 0 Comments

Opera 10 Release Candidate 2 includes a variety of fixes. The most noteworthy are stability, icon and native skin fixes as well as import of widgets when upgrading from Opera 9.64. The full changelog is available on the blog post of the Opera desktop team that is announcing the new release candidate.

Download links and changelog could be found here.

ps: anybody find that opera file sharing is worthy to any extend? I’m still finding my way through

pss: Noticed the new icon. Cool. Looks yummy.

Opera 9.5 Codename Kestrel, coming soon!

Published on June 23, 2007 in Opera. 6 Comments

Opera fans will definitely loves to hear about this. They will be a new version around the corner, 9.5.

The updates are:

The rendering engine has been updated with improved CSS3 support, and a new javascript engine.
The user interface will be tweaked to provide easier access to the features users reported they used the most.
Improved keyboard navigation
Screen reader support
New skins to match OS X and Linux environments
Speedier rendering

Opera being tested on CSS3 rendering.

There is nothing more to say about this, I’m just waiting for their first weekly build. Opera blog mentioned they will release it in a few weeks. :hyper: