Opera is by far the best browser worldwide. Chrome is the fastest yes. But not very customizable at all. Firefox is customizable, but not on the interface, is insecure, buggy and slow. Explorer is well, explorer... Safari, fast, but not as secure as Chrome or as customizable as Firefox. Opera has it all. Secure, not as much as Chrome but very close. Fast. Not as fast as Safari and Chrome but faster then Firefox and Explorer. Very customizable, from the interface, to the widgets. Specially it has allot of features that the others lack. How about running widgets outside the browser, directly on desktop. The tab feature is incredible, you can even put websites on auto reload and tweak the browser just like you want and like it. I still dont understand how people dont like Opera. Its probably because some websites dont display very well, but that is a thing from the past now.
lavista4u
· 3 months ago
Man opera is very very fast, best browser to watch youtube
SQA India
· 3 months ago
This is a test mail from fastest Mobile browser that gives desktop rending on small screen.
Who Cares
· 3 months ago
Who Cares
coxy
· 3 months ago
I encourage anyone who has this response to just try the browser for a day or two and then post something constructive instead.
heh
· 3 months ago
People with a brain, obviously.
martani_net
· 3 months ago
right who cares
heh
· 3 months ago
Once again, people with a brain will care.
martani_net
· 3 months ago
right LOL, have you see the browser security testing before? IE8 most secure 82% FF 79% Opera 7% WTF????
the only feature that's cool in opera is Opera Unite, that's all, otherwise it will never get more that 1% of the browser market
spinchange
· 3 months ago
Gotta link for those stats? Opera is the most standards compliant web browser in the world. Period. It is elegant software in every sense of the word. You're also forgetting to mention it has an integrated mail client, IRC client, widgets & web pannels (with literally allows to take any web page and basically make it a little web app you can run on your desktop or in a browser frame)
It also has author mode which allows to to see only static HTML, Dragonfly (a javascript debugger) and basically gives better DOM control than *any* browser out there. So again, where and what do you base that security claim on?
lul
· 3 months ago
Why yes, I have seen the "security testing".
It just so happens that it was a "report" paid for by Microsoft to make them look good. Never mind all the factual errors in the "report", such as the claim that Opera 9.63 updated itself to 9.64 automatically even though Opera 9 doesn't support automatic updates!
Opera already has 3% globally, and 7-10% in Europe.
Ryan Lalonde
· 3 months ago
I don't look at Opera as a bad web browser but it's certainly not better then Firefox.
Dave Faulkner
· 3 months ago
I prefer Firefox for features, but always need a backup fast browser. Until recently that was Chrome, but then even with the most up to date versions, it was becoming unresponsive to clicking within pages, especially on Facebook. I tried Opera again for the first time in ages and found it lightning fast. Just downloading v10 and we'll see how that goes. Thanks for the article.
Dave Faulkner
· 3 months ago
I prefer Firefox for features, but always need a backup fast browser. Until recently that was Chrome, but then even with the most up to date versions, it was becoming unresponsive to clicking within pages, especially on Facebook. I tried Opera again for the first time in ages and found it lightning fast. Just downloading v10 and we'll see how that goes. Thanks for the article.
hansv
· 3 months ago
Thanks for covering this - it's a major landmark from one of the web's oldest browsers…
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Guest
· 3 months ago
Who Cares
lul
· 3 months ago
You evidently care since you actually read the article and commented on it. LOL.
SQA India
· 3 months ago
You are very true
lodank
· 3 months ago
Maybe he didn't care to read it either.
Tarun
· 3 months ago
who the hell cares for Opera wen u hv firefox and chrome..!!
crezi
· 3 months ago
"who the hell cares for Opera wen u hv firefox and chrome..!!"
People with more than half a brain?
lodank
· 3 months ago
I have been trying to download opera since this article came out and have been unsuccessful until today - when I clicked on the download button it kept giving me an error. But today finally I will be able to use it. I hope its good because I'm losing faith in chrome and firefox.
YS
· 3 months ago
Opera is good for those with brains, not retards.
Manoj
· 3 months ago
Very true..
Still Shaking my Head
· 3 months ago
"Now, it’s released one of the biggest – at least by number – milestones in its history: version 10."
This is possibly the dumbest tech sentence ever published - I hope you get a bonus
Igor Kheifets
· 3 months ago
Sounds like a version worth checking out...
aidilsharizaq
· 3 months ago
In a funny way , Firefox is like Iphone,-widely used,a leader and pack with features/apps
Chrome is like Google's Android-close rival to the above,has its own strength
Opera 10 is like Palm Pre...-always inovative but not as popular.yet.
IE? That's like Blackberry Storm...-big,slow...
mascobz
· 3 months ago
At first i was using firefox then i started using google chrome and now i will be enjoying the new opera 10! :D
Calvin Chin
· 3 months ago
Me too! I used Mozilla at first because everyone told me it was better than IE. Okay understandable. Then came along Chrome that saved me from the extremely slow to startup but definitely useful Mozilla. Chrome is nice and all too, and I had used Safari and Opera before but dropped it. Then GMail crashed just now. I thought it was Chrome having problems, so I decided to try Opera. I love it! So thanks GMail for crashing?
spinchange
· 3 months ago
Stan, you guys should do another post in the future digging a little deeper into some of the features of this software and what makes it so different from the rest of the browsers out there.
I don't think people realize, for instance that opera mail is an *integrated* browser-mail client. (as in, it lives in a browser tab) Same with the in-built IRC/chat client, and RSS reader. It's also a complete web development environment.
You can even use the web panels to, say, keep friendfeed open (and see it updating in real-time) in a side frame while your doing something else. No 3rd party 'apps' needed.
The browser literally can, if you like, replace *several* pieces of stand-alone software. And it does it really well. Not in a 'me too' way. There's more to this story then the speed enhancements. It's some of the most feature-rich, stable, standards-compliant software out there.
If it was rebranded with some hipster web 2.0 name - it would probably be super popular.
yammie gurl
· 3 months ago
I agree with your suggestion on digging more on the features of Opera. The features that you've talked about are what made me use the Opera browser in the first place. I don't have to install plugins or run other applications to do other tasks: mails, contacts, notes, feeds, speed dial...
Robin Majumdar
· 3 months ago
While the desktop browser space may not be saturated, it certainly is not dominated. The same can't be said for the mobile space; and this is where Opera Mobile is a clear contender, IMHO.
We'll see what MSFT manages to do with Pocket IE (or IE Mobile, or whatever moniker they'll give it) but for now Opera Mobile 9.7 is one of the more interesting and usable mobile browsers for WinMo devices.
sikku
· 3 months ago
Firefox rocks... But Opera is better in some ways than Firefox... IE is just crap....
Manoj
· 3 months ago
Wow! I was waiting for this since ages. Just installed it..Its great.
Opera rocks!
Erik
· 3 months ago
Finally! Maybe I'll start using Opera again...my system didn't like me having both 9 and 10 at the same time ):
Mr. Roc
· 3 months ago
Just downloaded the new Opera browser...I love it so far. Better than Google Chrome in my opinion :)
zbowling
· 3 months ago
i would use if it loaded images in a way that didn't feel wrong. the scroll on to the screen like its 1997 and I'm on dial up for some reason with Opera. why do images look so weird on opera?
All Comments
Safari, fast, but not as secure as Chrome or as customizable as Firefox. Opera has it all. Secure, not as much as Chrome but very close. Fast. Not as fast as Safari and Chrome but faster then Firefox and Explorer. Very customizable, from the interface, to the widgets. Specially it has allot of features that the others lack. How about running widgets outside the browser, directly on desktop. The tab feature is incredible, you can even put websites on auto reload and tweak the browser just like you want and like it. I still dont understand how people dont like Opera. Its probably because some websites dont display very well, but that is a thing from the past now.
the only feature that's cool in opera is Opera Unite, that's all, otherwise it will never get more that 1% of the browser market
It also has author mode which allows to to see only static HTML, Dragonfly (a javascript debugger) and basically gives better DOM control than *any* browser out there. So again, where and what do you base that security claim on?
It just so happens that it was a "report" paid for by Microsoft to make them look good. Never mind all the factual errors in the "report", such as the claim that Opera 9.63 updated itself to 9.64 automatically even though Opera 9 doesn't support automatic updates!
More about this crappy "report" by Microsoft:
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200912...
Opera already has 3% globally, and 7-10% in Europe.
…so could you at least use their new logo? ;)
http://my.opera.com/non-troppo/blog/2009/08/25/...
http://imgur.com/eeBnC.png
www.check2cash.co.uk
People with more than half a brain?
This is possibly the dumbest tech sentence ever published - I hope you get a bonus
Firefox is like Iphone,-widely used,a leader and pack with features/apps
Chrome is like Google's Android-close rival to the above,has its own strength
Opera 10 is like Palm Pre...-always inovative but not as popular.yet.
IE?
That's like Blackberry Storm...-big,slow...
I don't think people realize, for instance that opera mail is an *integrated* browser-mail client. (as in, it lives in a browser tab) Same with the in-built IRC/chat client, and RSS reader. It's also a complete web development environment.
You can even use the web panels to, say, keep friendfeed open (and see it updating in real-time) in a side frame while your doing something else. No 3rd party 'apps' needed.
The browser literally can, if you like, replace *several* pieces of stand-alone software. And it does it really well. Not in a 'me too' way. There's more to this story then the speed enhancements. It's some of the most feature-rich, stable, standards-compliant software out there.
If it was rebranded with some hipster web 2.0 name - it would probably be super popular.
We'll see what MSFT manages to do with Pocket IE (or IE Mobile, or whatever moniker they'll give it) but for now Opera Mobile 9.7 is one of the more interesting and usable mobile browsers for WinMo devices.
Opera rocks!