Opera 9.50 – The Orchestra Is Tuning Up
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Kestrel, or revision 9.5 of Opera, has been released, and packs quite a few new features into a very small footprint.
The early results are in, from PCMagazine, and although Opera doesn’t completely trounce other browsers, it doesn’t finish any worse than second in any of the tests administered.
Before the big Firefox download day, it might be wise to ‘check out the competition’ and see what may be your next browser. ( I was converted when revision 8.53 was made available, and saw the speed and stability of the product, as well as how much it achieves with very little fuss or bother.
Flame wars over software are stupid, so this should not be taken that way, but giving this a look will either convert you, make you thankful you use something else, or give you an idea of the things from Opera that could be added to your browser to make it batter – all of these choices help the community. (Look at Microsoft – they have finally decided to adhere to standards that they did not establish!)
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3 Comments
Jeff
June 12th, 2008
at 7:55pm
I’ve been using Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 RC3 today and my limited human senses can see no discernible difference in speed between the two. They are both incredibly fast. I can definitely see that. It’s a vast improvement over their predecessors. The only thing that edges out Firefox 3 for me, however, is its high level of customization that is possible plus my inherent familiarity with the Firefox line of browsers (which I’ve been using since it was called Firebird).
Opera and Mozilla have done amazing jobs on these browsers.
grannar olice
June 13th, 2008
at 8:11am
Don’t limit yourself to one browser. You can use different ones for different purposes.
The best thing about Opera, which has not been mentioned, is its sterling security record, compared to IE or Mozilla.
Another consideration is that portable versions of Mozilla or Opera are “freely” available from the “usual sources”–hint–Google it. You can run one of these from a limited user and be pretty well protected. You can also run one with only session cookies and be more isolated from whatever data mining goes on out there, then run another with your cookies intact for repetitive uses.
I would note I have over a Gig of RAM, so can run these browsers with lots of tabs and cache. YMMV.
the oracle
June 13th, 2008
at 11:14am
grannar olice, thanks for the comment. I use Opera everywhere, from a thumb drive, and it’s nice to have a familiar environment on an unfamiliar machine.