Great! I love Opera, use it exclusively, and I wish it got a bigger market share.<p>Some things to love about Opera:<p><pre><code> * Superb keyboard support including reaching any link on the page quickly
* Dragonfly
* Home/Office Sync
* Disable Images on a page immediately Shift+I
* Incremental vim-like find with "."
* List out all links on the given page (very useful for some threads)
</code></pre>
This version looks really good. Private browsing at last! I can finally plan my vacations in private.
I just updated all my browsers and did the Sunspider tests on my Win XP box. Opera smokes them all.<p>Opera<p>============================================
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 888.0ms +/- 10.8%
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1187.2ms +/- 4.2%
--------------------------------------------<p>Safari<p>============================================
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1282.2ms +/- 10.6%
--------------------------------------------<p>Firefox<p>============================================
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 2594.8ms +/- 13.9%
--------------------------------------------<p>IE<p>============================================
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 15011.0ms +/-12.4%
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What is "surprising", however, is the rush to release this version. I mean, it was a process for months, of alpha, beta versions... Then RC came 3 days ago, and hop, gold already, even if still some bugs.<p>Surprising, but understandable, as the "browser choice ballot screen" they fought for is released this week. It's their chance to propose a "perfect" browser, the moment they will be the most exposed. So I can understand this decision, but I hope that there won't be too high bugs in it, lowering the image. Because it's easy to give up on a new browser on the first error.<p>Other than that, I have to admit that this new version is amazing, much faster and more pleasant to use.
The one thing Opera needs to do now is support it's userJS community, so many of Firefox's most popular extensions and plugins have been recreated for Opera, but few people know about them, making it somewhat of a deal breaker for many.<p>Sadly this is currently left to third parties like <a href="http://userscripts.org/" rel="nofollow">http://userscripts.org/</a><p>The reason for this is they're currently rather fiddly to install and configure for the layman, so if anyone knows how to create an all purpose and usable front end for javascripts, they're likely to be welcomed with open arms.
This shit is crazy. I have the tabs vertically down the side with thumbnails inside and found an option to tile all of the open tabs on screen at once.<p>Edit: Found the Z1 glass theme, and the new tab is just a huge pane of glass on Windows.
Hah, a chart with 1.0 = IE7. I like that basis.<p>On a side-note, I've noticed that Chrome has serious trouble opening a lot of tabs at once. While the UI stays responsive, it commonly takes almost twice as long to load ~40 pages as Safari, and I've yet to see Opera or Firefox get even close to that (though I haven't tried it for a while, the UI annoyed me too much).
On the default skin if you select show tab bar when needed the entire freaking top disappears, the window controls and the big red menu button. and it can't be dragged around. It's not a big deal but how did they not notice that in beta.
I would love to watch while a group of say fifteen people off the street (not hackers) who've been using Firefox, are asked to try out Opera. It would soon be mightily evident why Opera commands only some 2.1% of the market