http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/ Engadget Comments for Opera 10.5 for Windows announced with speed boost, private browsing, and more http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
I only want Opera Mini 5 "Official release" and Opera Mobil 10 with Flash 10.1.

Give me that.

I already use Firefox for desktop.

Thank you.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
x2! Waiting for official release for BB.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/i know right
opera invented tabbed browsing btw =D]]>Mar 2nd 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
I love Opera. But in the past they had major troubles with flash integration (i.e. Youtube wouldn't play) and sometimes it would shut down on me. I wonder if my habit to have 100-200 open tabs was the reason.. Anyways, I switched to FF. It's a nice browser too. I love AdBlock addon in FF. I miss Opera's superfast speed and cache handling (when you press 'back' in Opera it opens cached page without reloading it which is sometimes useful).]]>Mar 2nd 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
Meanwhile firefox gained the geek audience exactly because (with addons) it could remove them :D

I am even using Opera (ditching Chrome since the thing tracks even my thuoghts) as secondary browser... No one beats a fully customized firefox.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
The desktop widgets thing never made sense to me either. Not as good as add-ons, in that add-ons often at least feel like they're integrated into the browser. The widgets *never* feel integrated with the desktop, even though they probably should.

Finally, with the arrival of Personas in Firefox, it's easy to skin and theme the UI without having to know XUL, and it even removes a potential attack vector for potential malware. Not that I ever had Firefox compromised, mind...]]>Mar 3rd 2010 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/When the Wii gets enough memory to load an entire Youtube video without crashing.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
Doesn't it already have flash? It can play almost all the flash video sites,

it even has its own flash based game site Wiicade.com]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/All I know is-- every time I try to watch a video, it "beeps" at me and doesn't load. Complete waste of time.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
The Wii's browser does have flash. The older version of the browser uses Flash 7, and the more recent update uses Flash lite 3.something-rather, which is a stripped down version of flash 9 from what I understand. I never use my Wii for web browsing, though, since it's connected to the same monitor as my PC.

Opera kind of died to me after Chrome came out. I use Chrome beta mainly due to Xmarks bookmarks syncing, and Firefox for Xmarks and AdBlock Plus on ad heavy sites.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/So, it's just a conflict with the *version* of Flash the site uses? I don't know much about Opera; the only time I've ever used it is on the Wii. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/wait, you stopped using Opera because of a lack of Xmarks? Bookmark syncing is built into Opera. Just about every popular plugin for Firefox is built into Opera.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to private browsing.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
Been using it all morning and it's pretty good. Everything I liked about the fifteen-hundred beta releases without all the crashing.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
With the latest Firefox and Opera 10.50 I ran the SunSpider Javascript Benchmark.

Results: 3.19x as fast - 888.8ms +/- 5.6% - 278.6ms +/- 2.5% significant

The first numbers are FF, second are Opera. It's 'significant'ly faster. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Doh. Fail.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/... You mean the default layout of the buttons?

Cause you can change that. I don't even have any; mouse gestures ftw,]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
Shift+F12. Click the buttons tab. Drag new buttons in; right-click remove buttons to get rid of them.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
It is.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
I love a skeptic as much as the next guy, but this claim is actually verifiable, so no need to laden it with sarcasm]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
personally I have a problem with my computer being slow (not this one, at work) but not with the browser (Firefox 3.6). The browser loads pages perfectly fine. If I want to get annoyed by the actual browser being slow, I need to load IE7 and visit a JavaScript-based site... If I have a problem with Firefox it's memory consumption, and even that doesn't seem to be too bad at the moment (however I'm sure Opera is also much better on that front).

If I had a *really* slow computer (inherently slow not just a crappy hard disk like my work pc), such as a netbook, I'd certainly be more inclined to give Opera another try. I last tried it years back, but hated the interface.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Actually I'm pretty sure Chrome and IE8 both support that and there's probably an addon for Firefox.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
It doens't save any personal history of the tab/window in question. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
As somebody who uses all 4 of those browsers - while all of the browser support private browsing, Opera is the only one that allows you to privately open a tab without opening a new window.

IE/Chrome = new window
FF = hides regular window, opens private window]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/i don't get it... what so special about this Fn?
im happy with chrome and FF........ but i use chrome 99% of the time]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
I just wished it was compatible with wachovia.com.

Also I wish that when I went to Google that it would remember my previous searches....

Aside from that though it's freaking amazing!]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/it remembers last typed addresses and that includes the searches.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
I love the Wand though. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 3rd 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 3rd 2010 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
I lol'd]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/How exactly did u check?? Cause I want some of that stuff...]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/Mar 2nd 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/opera-10-5-for-windows-announced-with-speed-boost-private-brows/
Opera's share is similar to Nokias – it's very good everywhere except US, and gets ridiculed by US-centric news outlets.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 4:41PM