Opera 10 Beta 1

June 11, 2009 · Filed Under Browsers · 1 Comment 

opera 10 logo 400x220 Opera 10 Beta 1

I just removed my Opera 9.64 and installed Opera 10 Beta 1. New Opera even in Beta is stable enough for daily use, and I must admit it is pure evil. Its faster then ever. Facebook is working now smooth like a milk, javascript speed is faster more then 20 times. Few javascript intense pages now do not slow down Opera. Acid 3 test is hitting score 100/100. There is new skin but old skin are working flawless, so I just brought back old one Tango CL skin. One thing is not working for me. My userjs SEObar script. Hope I will manage it somehow. Obviously M2 client got upgraded too.

This new opera is introducing us two new great features. First one is Automatic Update. From now on, we will have always latest Opera automaticly. Second one is inline spell checker. This is something that most Opera users awaited eagerly. Now when I type any English text on any text box, Opera is checking my spelling. Great thing for non English speakers.

One another thing I just noticed is new function for tab bar. You can resize it. But when you resize over certain border, tabs becomes thumbnails of open webpages. Quite interesting effect :D

Love is in the air :D

Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Opera vs Chrome vs Safari

December 20, 2008 · Filed Under Browsers · 23 Comments 

Browser wars - Browsers FACEOFF - 2008/2009 - comparison test

naslovna Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Opera vs Chrome vs Safari

I searched all over the net for latest browser speed comparison test and I did not find anything,  so I decided why not to make test myself.  I already had on my pc, Opera and Firefox so I downloaded latest version of IE7, Chrome and Safari. Since I am big Opera fan and I am using Opera Browser for  over 9 years I thought that Opera will easily blow up opponents just like it did maybe two years ago. However I did not count that Chrome is so blazing fast.  I used few old tests from HowToCreate.co.uk and Java Script tests from CelticKane.com and also I added few of my own… All browsers are tested on same machine Athlon 3800 64bit, Gigabyte M55S-S3 mainboard and 2 gb DDR2 ram and Windows XP with SP2.

Browsers:

Opera 9.63
Firefox 3.0.4
Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13
Google Chrome 1.0.154.36
Apple Safari 3.2.1

All browsers are tested “out of the box” without any extension or plugin.
This gave significant advantage to Firefox, since it is considerable slower with just couple of extensions. Read more

Opera 9.61

October 27, 2008 · Filed Under Browsers · Comment 

Opera released Opera 9.6 and fast after that 9.61. Opera 9.6 contain security and stability upgrade, while Opera 9.61 bring us integration of  the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine and some security upgrades. Complete list of what is added or upgraded in 9.6 you can see here. And complete list for 9.61 here.

Opera SEOBAR

October 11, 2008 · Filed Under Browsers · 4 Comments 

Few days ago i posted this topic at Digital Point Forum. But here is it again.

SEObar - is a powerful tool for web-site promoters and analysts. SEObar is compatible to work with Opera 8 and Opera 9 browser.

SEObar can display the following information on the page of your browser:

Alexa Traffic Rank
Google Page Rank
Yandex CY (Russian SE)
Directory data:
DMOZ: Open Directory Project
Yahoo! Directory
Yandex.Directory (Russian SE)
Rambler’s Top100 (Russian SE)
Number of backward links:
Google
Yahoo - references for current page or domain
MSN - references for current page or domain
Yandex - number of referring pages and sites (Russian SE)

The information is displayed in the SEObar’s panel and the browser’s status bar. Read more

Opera 9.5

October 11, 2008 · Filed Under Browsers · Comment 

I dont know what to say. Use Opera maybe over 8 years now and this is the first version i dont like, but its easy to change that.
Here are things that I think are very bad:

1. Skin. It is very ugly.
Solution: right click bellow menu bar, click on “Customize” then go to tab “Skin” then “Find more skins” then download Opera Classic Skin probably first one or which ever you like.

2. Status bar at bottom. Personnaly dont use status bar and like that is by default off.
Solution: View -> Toolbars -> Unchek status bar
For all others who does then this location is probably natural, but you can place it
top left right or bottom at
View -> Toolbars -> Chek status bar and select appropriate “Placement” Read more