Video: Opera 10 promises Turbo browsing using Scandinavian flat-packing knowhow
By Thomas Ricker 
posted September 1st 2009 3:41AM
posted September 1st 2009 3:41AM
posted September 1st 2009 3:41AM
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I've been using Opera 10 for the last while on my PPC iBook and its great. I like how Opera still supports the older Mac OS X (10.3.9) while you can't even get Firefox 3 for that version. I've also seen Opera (Opera ver.9 *without* using Turbo) double or near triple the browsing speeds on an old 333Mhz iMac when compared to Safari and FF.
Opera on my Linux boxes (Ubuntu and OpenSUSE) is far too buggy to be useful, you can do basic Internet browsing quickly and easily but try to do anything else (upload anything, play video etc.) and it will bug out.
Opera in windows is ok, but Internet browsing in Windows always scares me (its like having sex with a prostitute, tons of people do it everyday but you know its bad for you). However if I have to do it, Opera's the condom I bring along
when Ubuntu 8.04 came out opera was better than Firefox .then flash 10 came out only for 32bit and then the hack wasn't that compatible with opera.anyway why are you using Suse its like windows for Linux
thats the hack for 64bit flash
Opera has always been buggy with Ubuntu for me, even when i was using 8.04 and even now when i've upgraded. Video was terrible in both to be honest (friggin' Atom) but Opera was the only browser that ever *crashed* while trying it.
Only using SUSE becasue of power management problems with Ubuntu, and possibly was a bad choice. Although I do enjoy being able to print...
This is the "hack" if thats what you want to call it:
Ctrl+F12 → Advanced ↓ Downloads Search for "swf" Change to "libflashplayer.so" instead of "libflashplayer-alternative", with that you will only get sound. Or point it to the directory you have flash in. Problem solved :) 32 and 64bit linux alike. Remember to install flashplugin-nonfree.
They should have had Radio Shack make the video for them. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpg7rpkWzPY
Ikea is from Sweden you fools.
The core kingdoms of Scandinavia are Norway, Sweden and Denmark. IKEA is Swedish, and Opera is Norwegian.
i used to despise opera, thinking it was garbage..after i got fed up with ff and not liking google in EVERY aspect of my life, i've been using opera now and am totally hooked; go figure. the software is just higher quality i feel. hopefully more widgets show up, it could use 2 or 3 good ones; but the software itself is great
If I recall correctly, Opera 10 still does not have an accelerated JavaScript engine (it's forthcoming), is this right?
To my knowledge it's called "Carakan", the one used now is called Futhark.
Dunno why you so off about turbo. It's great for me when I'm on EDGE, saves time and money. And you can turn it off when you're on broadband.
Got this dialog box on initial installation.
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Opera Crash Logging
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Opera crashed while trying to show the crash dialogue for a previous crash.
A crash log was created here:
C:\DOCUME~1\phatkrome\LOCALS~1\Temp\crash20090901081641.txt
Please send us this log manually.
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OK
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I don't get the compression thing.
It seems like a marketing joke !
The browser cannot decide of a "new" way to compress things !
That is the web server that compresses pages.
That's how it works.
At most, the web browser can say to the server "I understand compressed things, go on!"
Unless Opera has developped a brand new compression technology (which I really doubt, as we have already almost reached theoretical maximum compressed rates here), and it is going to push this new method to a new RFC for the WWW and help all web servers software implement it and then have it installed on all physical web servers on earth.
So, to me, this info is a complete lie.
They use the same technology that they use with Opera Mini. All traffic is routed through Opera's servers, compressed, and then sent to the client. Flash however, is simply not loaded when using turbo, and you have to confirm if you want to load the flashelement.
They have actually developed a new compression technology :) When it's "ON" the pages get compressed on operas proxy-servers before they are sent to you.
But you are right; the browser does not do the compression stuff, but Operas proxyservers does.
Ok ... so they do caching ...
That is worse that I thought
That's evil.
It's centralised, it's not safe for privacy, for security, ....
Erk!
Opera uses a proxy server to do the compressing. If the compression works the same way as Opera Mini, an important part of the compression is combining all page resources to one chunk of data to reduce the number of HTTP requests needed to load the page.
@ Raphael
Well, its not like a random proxyservice "out there" - it's Operas proxyservice. I guess they are not more evil than your ISP, Google, etc who you trust everyday not "stealing" your data.
Norway has some of the best privacy laws in the world, so I would trust them more than I would trust any US-based company..
Turbo isn't very innovative, google used to have such a service - Google web accelerator I think.
This is probably a similar backend to the one that is running the proxy for Opera Mini. For large pages and slow servers Opera mini often spends quite some time processing before you receive the page. But it's great on a slow connection, especially when you have to pay for your data traffic.
Looks like they packed that commercial's budget 80% flat. That's pretty good packing.
I've been using it for about a month now. Love is a weird feeling !
P.S: I was once a devout FF user. I still miss twitterfox :( Hope Opera gets such features (and no, I don't like them stupid widgets)
Packer !
Its Out guys :D :D
Sorry, i meant the Opera Mini 5