I just tried the new Opera 10.50 release on Win7 x64 and, boy, is it fast! Although I don’t have any real benchmark numbers, everything is really, really snappy.
The Monster test on Chrome Experiments actually runs pretty smoothly on the new Opera. Previously, only Chrome could run it well on a PC – both Firefox 3.6 and Internet Explorer 8 failed miserably.
There are a few nice new UI tweaks as well, including support for Aero Glass everything, jump lists and a nice little recycle bin in the upper right hand corner for recently closed tabs. Also, the tab bar can be resized to give a mini preview of each page.
I don’t anticipate using Opera Link for setting synchronization or Opera Unite for social media sharing, but Opera Turbo seems interesting, especially when in a crowded cafe on a slow Wi-Fi link or browsing while borrowing someone’s 3G dongle.
Overall, this seems like a really strong release and may give me pause when thinking about what browser to run as default. Great job Opera!
EDIT: Opera Unite is quite a bit more interesting than I had initially thought!
It basically runs a web server within Opera from which you can host different services like file sharing, media streaming or even web hosting.
Obviously you aren’t going to run any heavy duty web services on this, and all pages are served under a sub-domain of operaunite.com.
Still, everything just works and this feels like it has the potential like peer-to-peer technology to be a game changer. Especially if you can get you and your friends to mirror each other’s content.
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