RSS| Wildhack | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta |  5 out of 5 |
MarcFou - "Still many pages/sites that wont [sic] render properly." I very rarely encounter one. When I do I realize that because some webcrafters will use MSIE proprietary code, it isn't Opera's fault that they have trouble rendering it when they follow the agreed-upon standards. |
| BarneyR | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
No problems here - excellent as usual. |
| bigmama | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
gets better and better |
| MikeTechno | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Just tested this new 10071 build on my system against both the new FF v3.0 final and the pre-release Minefield (Firefox) alpha v3.1a1 and it beats both of them on both start up times and page loads. I don't know how fast the new Safari 4.0 release will be when it comes out but this new Opera version is easily the fastest browser I have seen so far. The boys over at Opera are really getting their act together very tightly these days it looks like. An impressive browser indeed. When you consider that this is consistantly the most secure browser on the market, year after year after year, it is hard to beat for sure. |
| arjesus | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Wow, this new version fix the only bug i notice in Opera: use the navigation button in DeviantArt website. |
| FailedCRC | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Still a great browser, always has been. It still gets beaten out by firefox due to noscript and adblock plugins. |
| manogamez | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Since a few of the reviewers below me seem to think that they can give a "1" without a good reason, I think that warrants a "5" for no reason. Just read this: http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/ |
| Darken | Jun 22, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@MarcFou: Can you show me examples? (URLs) |
| Diam0nd | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
MikeTechno: totally agree with you. And to all the people saying that FF is better: try measuring the start up time of opera against ff, page load times. Opera is CLEARLY faster. WAY faster. And for those "it crashes on me" people, well, it doesnt. Used 9.50 since its early alphas/betas, crashed only a few times. |
| Daddy_Spank | Jun 20, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10071 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@etalmar: Im not sure what you mean by copy and paste buttons but ctrl+c and ctrl+v works prety well for me, in addition to the right click menu of course. Also, editing bookmarks from the bookmark menu is a nobrainer, im not really sure you know what you are talking about actually.... |
| guti | Dec 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
sturgess, as stated on Opera Desktop blog, this is not a beta, nor a disaster, but a developer snapshot. improvelence, hoe we can see your own web browser soon. If it is far better than Opera, Honestly, I can't wait for it. |
| Lands | Dec 24, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fixed images loading bug and Gmail works again. The best snapshot until now. :) |
| christ999 | Dec 21, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Very good and fast browser. |
| Darken | Dec 21, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent new build! All javascript issues with IP.Board/vB are gone with this latest build. |
| Diam0nd | Dec 21, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fastest browser ever. Can't live without it! :D |
| finalcut | Dec 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
simple the best browser ever made period! |
| Daddy_Spank | Dec 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Still a few kinks to work out but there are a lot of exciting improvements done in this version. A nice christmas surprise! |
| bolaris | Dec 28, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9716 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Remember to configure your FIREWALLS after every release update. I have found opera doesn't like being blocked, it crashes and freezes. I know a few people have complained of this problem, so do a check before posting :p Firewalls do see (well the good ones) each opera release as a foreign app and will stop it dead. |
| plings | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Thank God this browser exists to take me away from the Firefox security nightmare... |
| Mirrebex | Feb 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
trapanator moron.. if u want to review firefox go to the firefox download page.. Opera is great.. , two thumbs up..x |
| fatray | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera kicks butt! Been using it for years, even though right now I am trying out IE7. I can say a lot more web sites work with Opera and not with IE7. You can't beat the Magic Wand and my favorite 'Right click, Left Click' and vise versa for the back and foward buttons. I do wish I could have the Google tool bar for Opera, I need that spell check. |
| munga42 | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Finally, an easy way to set cookies per site. Getting close to perfection now.. And hey idiots, get your facts right before you spam here. |
| Tokar | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
klingon379: you are a dope. There are probably just as many webpages that don't work in FireFox that would work perfectly or better in Opera...like those, um, with Acid2 (since everyone likes to compare web standards in browsers). Opera is more secure than FireFox...keep on dreaming. John_Bedin: Im not sure how you can backup your claim considering all the leaps that Opera is taking way past FireFox...tab previews, bittorrent, faster load times, better support of future web standards at this point in time, smaller download, smaller memory footprint, better interface, etc. Metshrine: -No browser is perfect. If a page doesn't work in Opera, you go tell the devs the problem, and then you go use it in Internet Explorer, or have you forgotten that Windows comes with Internet Explorer? Not a big deal. -I would figure with everyone worried about security nowadays, getting serious about autoform filler would be the last thing on their minds. -Im glad you use AdMuncher though and don't rip Opera's content filtering in favor of FireFox AdBlock. AdMuncher trumps every ad filter on the internet, including AdBlock. So if you have AdMuncher, then you don't need Opera content filter or FireFox AdBlock...very very simple. sophist_dreams: so let me get this straight. If a webpage doesn't work in FireFox you use IETab extension to use IE to render the page and go your merry way. But if a webpage fails in Opera you 1) won't use Internet Explorer to use it and instead say how much better FireFox supports the page and 2) complain and moan that it doesnt work and say how bad Opera is? Boy you are a real hypocrite. ServerMechanic: As stated, AdMuncher trumps both Opera content filter and FireFox AdBlock. Go get that and quit complaining. For all of you writing negative reviews because sites don't work in Opera: You guys are just too lazy to check out the help menu...let alone the Opera forums. The Opera dev team encourages that you submit sites that don't work such that they can improve their product. Seeing as how your only purpose in life is to just rip something based on first judgements, I doubt you will ever use this feature and the sites you visit on a daily basis will never get fixed. Kudos to you! However, if you are smart enough to submit the site problems, then the Opera dev team would look into it and fix any possible problems when the final version (or next beta version) comes around. Then in future reviews you wouldn't have these complaints and you would save everyone the time from reading your stupid complaints that your sites don't work in Opera. But then again, if they were to fix these problems, you would probably make it your point to find new sites which don't work and complain about those too...bah! Anyway... They have added so much, especially the NEEDED CTRL-ENTER shortcut for www.-.com completion. I figured AOL Explorer would be the only browser with tab previews...I guess I was wrong. They have added so much its ridiculous...I trully believe in this project because of how active and dedicated the development team is...now if only the IE team was this active. 5/5. This is the best browser on earth (this coming from a computer user who has been using Internet Explorer for the past 7 years up until 2 weeks ago when I changed over to Opera 8.51, then Opera 9TP1). |
| BadIronTree | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
the best lol some reviewer load opera for 30 seconds and they know everything |
| eyv | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is a truly excellent web browsing platform. However, I will not use it myself because it's not Open Source. I may recommend it to others, who would not spend 20 minutes tracing through a crashed firefox.exe. Yes, it DOES happen more often that I'd like. Also, Opera has better memory usage. I can't speak for security. |
| Ward574 | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Some reviewers know next to nothing! To open a link in a new tab, middle click or hold down s***. Otherwise, Opera v9tp2 is the fastest and most standards compliant Windows browser of them all. |
| Fred-Erik | Feb 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser around! Much faster than Firefox, much functionality integrated (email, im, bittorrent (tp2); you name it) and a smaller download. New functionality in Technical Preview 2: Widgets, Bittorrent, easy content blocking, easy adding of new search engines, improved pop-up blocking and thumbnail preview for the tabs. |
| Richardky | Feb 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
this version is really cool ...they have come along way (free) and add free being the new best part ..to many new useful options to mention ..speed improvments atleast for me pages load fast in comparison to older versions.. i really like the fully customizable interface and drag and drop anything .. |
| Zankur | Feb 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Personally,i s***ed to ff 1.5 after long hiatus between tp1 and tp2 become un-berable..but lemme tell you,this build is worth the wait.. I would encourage people to try it and report any bugs or as question on their forum.. The reviewers before me have written enough..so 5/5 to it |
| Yogurth | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
This version rocks for me..it unbreaks some sites that were broken in 9.0tp1, it has absolutely the best and most elegant AdBlock/popupblock/Flashblock implementation on market. It has per site customization!!! It's super fast and it has all features I need from webrowser... It has AJAX based widgets, so in near future ppl that uses widgets on Windows platform can kiss goodbye both Yahoo's and Stardock's memory intensive widget solutions FF and IE are sunked even deeper with this release. |
| librarianscott | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Yay! Ctrl+Enter finally auto completes "www" and "com" when used in the address field. The widgets seem to be faster (less resource hogging?) than yahoo widgets, etc. But, no betanews widget yet :( Now if they only had filterset.g adblock built in I would forgive the lack of extensions because of the speed. |
| ModderXManiac | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
It breaks 2 websites I visit frequently, of which have been reported for faulty rendering multiple times. Aside from that, this release still goes to show this is the best 3rd party browser available. More sites work natively on this than on Firefox, I have discovered in my studies. It's more stable, it's moe secure, and is much more integratable into multiple operating systems. |
| horsecharles | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Out-freakin'n'friggin'-standing!! FFFFaassssttttt! On steroids! Too bad some FFanboy mistook this area for a restroom. Always some party pooper not too far away, ready to dump. Now needs a coupla things: better compatibility with streaming AOL Media Playback(unagi plugin: test on Channels @ AOL, that won't work, though the new aol video player and site works fine)-- and ability to scrunch toolbars 'n their space area like w/ IE engine. |
| Wirpo | Feb 11, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Former Firefox user here... 9.0 P2 won me over. Wow! |
| Mark Gillespie | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
mmmm, lots of new stuff, Blows the IE7 preview and Firefox out of the water in features and stability (even beta) speed and memory footprint. If you want 100% stability, try Opera v8.51, otherwise give Opera 9 Tech Preview 2 a shot. You wond't be disappointed. |
| yokozuna | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
I love all these small things that make the browser so convenient, like WAP pages surfing (try e.g. http://wap.yahoo.com ) and that Opera shows the miniatures of sites if you hover your mouse over the tab. You can try it with your browser ;-) ... and a word concerning security. Opera is not only favourite but also the only browser of Bruce Schneier ("Personally, I use Opera. I like the fact that it seems to be designed with the best interests of the user in mind, and not the best interests of large corporate websites"). Good recommendation? |
| sQin | Feb 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
i hope there'll be i-frame blocker integrated in the future |
| some guy | Feb 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
my favorite Nice job guys:) |
| RavenTS | Feb 9, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
In addition to adding new features, they also fixed stability issues and the annoying 2-minute-exit bug (where closing Opera took a looong time) from TP1. Love it! |
| oubeaver | Feb 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
My favorite browser. This version will be great. I have one very very very small gripe...I kinda wish there was some gui changes. Just something that looks a little different. 9.0 looks exactly like 8.5. I just like change I guess. |
| Jarda72 | Feb 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8212 Technology Preview 2 | 5 out of 5 |
@Bixente: Do You a little fool? The TP2 was released 7-2-06 and You test it 7-2-06 for 3 days? This is not stable release, not beta but technical preview only. Only real idiot install it without backup over the stable one - when You missing Your bookmarks look for the Opera folder for so named .BAK file. I think there is no better browser and there is no reason to give 5 (if I can not give 6)! |
| Betachecker | Jun 1, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10034 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I have a few little problems with Opera but I connot live withou it. At least for me this is the fastest browser. 5 Stars |
| bigmama | May 31, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10034 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The best browser Better than FF and IE Fast and has everything you want without plugins or extentions |
| RVail | Jun 2, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10034 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
They seem to be focusing on passing AcidTest3: http://acid3.acidtests.org This latest build [o950s_10034m.exe] ups the score on that test to 82/100, where the previous several builds scored 79/100. Side note: another browser function that lacks complete support is: Flash Firefly. An example site is: http://twitlive.tv/ |
| Darken | Jun 2, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10034 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@ alanpalmer: **** Version information Version - 9.50 beta Build - 10034 Platform - Win32 **** |
| sturgess | May 31, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10034 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Have been trying out the latest Opera beta 2, not these weekly versions. Opera beta 2 (the proper beta) is very good indeed. Forget these weeklies and go for the official beta, you'll not be disappointed. |
| Diam0nd | May 30, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10034 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Scrolling IS totally fixed. Build works great for me |
| Daddy_Spank | Jun 1, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10034 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Yeah, this beta fase has been lasting a while, but there are some major overhauling of the engine in this release, which is coming the right way now. Also, im glad that opera doesnt release software in a hurry, keeps up their already very good credibility. |
| ciwir | Jun 8, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser on earth |
| sham69 | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
this build is not as good as the previous one (build 8432) for example, take a look at the following page: http://www.undertexter.se/?p=senasterls It appears all empty in Opera 9.0 build 8460... But I'll still rate it a 5, because opera rules, and always will (btw does anybody have a release date for Opera 9.0???) |
| Terumo | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera blir bare bedre og bedre, og nå er den i Norsk språkdrakt også. Meget bra, kan anbefales til alle som vil ha noe bedre en IE. Opera har oså en bra e-post som jeg bruker og er svært fornøyd med. Så prøv du også. Terumo |
| Techguy22 | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is the fastest browser I have ever used and the most secure if you do not believe me check out this site http://secunia.com/product/4932/ (By the way Opera 9 will be released June 20th. You can read more about it here at http://operawatch.com/ne...aunch-on-june-20th.html) |
| ModderXManiac | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The rendering faults are not with web-developers and the code; the problem is with the rendering engine itself Why should web developers have to develop a browser recognition for Opera itself when the fault is when Opera cannot meet code standards as well as Firefox? Ok then, I was wrong about the standards;Opera has always been ahead in CSS standards, but if Opera can't have adaptive rendering as such like Firefox or IE, it's Opera's fault for not perfecting the engine. Since the last release rendering has vastly improved. Other faults are exaggerated caching Opera has implemented which can cause issues which is commonly referred to as rendering issues, but is a caching issue that can simply be resolved by auto-refreshing java scripts. This delivers great quality browsing, skinning, widgets, fast rendering, security; and all using far less memory than the gecko engine browsers! They can run Opera on a DS, Minimo Mozilla comes nowhere close. P.S. zridling, you're wrong; IE will remain the most used because it's what's included with Windows; most people don't know of anything else or are just too lazy to install an alternative, or are corporations with I.T. management on Microsoft payroll. My school forces Internet Explorer, I use Opera and Firefox. You say IE doesn't have any "unfriendly code"? How about the numerous crashes and buffer overflows on IE6? I've experienced none with Opera, your claim is false. |
| Diam0nd | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Simply the best. |
| siryak | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great program and this build appears to have fixed the problem with the xbox.com forums not being able to click the page 1,2,3 buttons. |
| zridling | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Most of the sites I visit with Opera are either perfect or better than Firefox, but the source of the artist's frustration lies in Opera's adherence to standards. They're already supporting CSS3 when no one else is even thinking about it. The reason IE6/7 will remain king of all browsers is because it is so forgiving of bad code. So you could say that Opera is simply ahead of its time for now. |
| punkesito | Jun 7, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8460 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
the artist, this version is weekly version, so has the problems, try with beta 2 version(has problems but less) |
| bigmama | Jun 17, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
GREAT! miles ahead google and ff |
| Ain Soph Aur | Jun 17, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
O! M! G! i just love it! :D |
| Chocobito | Jun 16, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This Build its Amazing!! this came with the wonderful Opera Unite where you can share thing direct from your PC, this make Opera the BEST browser at all. |
| alanpalmer | Jun 16, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Another excellently rock-steady build. As fast as ever and it displays all my regular sites without any problems. The new Opera Unite looks very interesting. I'll have to look into it before making any judgements, though, so I won't add or remove any stars for it at the moment. |
| ZenWarrior | Jun 16, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
After watching Maxthon die, finding IE8 to be a disaster, and suddenly Firefox crashing every 3 minutes, I decided to try "old" Opera. Wow! Although I've almost always had it installed but never used, I am truly impressed with the new Opera and it has immediately become my new default browser. It is truly a beautiful and elegant piece of work. This is the browser which *should* be either #1 or #2 in any ranking. |
| shallot | Jun 16, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
As usual Excellent build and Unite just works...no addons required, no extensions required...all you bookmarks everything from Opera included via Opera link... I have been with v10 for over 8 months now...and I never seen a bad build... |
| Daddy_Spank | Jun 17, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
WOW!!!! This is GREAT!!!! |
| URAWMD | Jun 17, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1589 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I found that even though it says to disable turbo mode if you have a fast connection, don't. It is really fast if you take it off auto and leave it on full time. It does have a problem rendering some .jpg's but .png's are perfect. |
| pohlman | Aug 29, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 7 | 5 out of 5 |
Still the best, and this version appears to have squashed the few remaining mystery crashes I had been having now and then. For the Flash problem: I don't know why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't when you install a new version but if it doesn't work, download the Netscape plugin here: http://sdc.shockwave.com...ave/download/alternates/ Run the executable and restart the browser. If it doesn't work (and it may not), you have two separate plugin folders in your Opera program folder (Don't know why they haven't changed this?). Copy all files in each folder to the other one. When you restart the browser all plugins should work. That's my only complaint about Opera these days: some things that should "just work" need a little fiddling. Not much, but if you're a normal Joe who just turns on the machine and expects everything to work and don't know how to move things around in a program folder or edit a text file, this is a MAJOR obstacle to replacing IE. When they finally make this thing perfectly "plug and play,", and unfortunately for the masses nothing less will do, it should replace that stupid blue "e" on the desktop that 80% of the world thinks IS the internet. |
| blackpages | Sep 2, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 7 | 5 out of 5 |
When the computer crashes, the browser can pick up where it left off. The transfer/download window is practical and functional with clickable resume. If there is something you don't like the opera forums can help you find how to remove it. Opera knows speed is not just about optimised code but say the number of clicks to reply to email or report spam. Screen reader compatible, zooming, keyboard features for almost everything, make it perfect for the physically impared, and Opera promotes this. Opera cares. |
| Dennis87 | Mar 29, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8762 Official Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Very good browser=) |
| hariskar | Mar 29, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8762 Official Beta | 5 out of 5 |
horsecharles: So what ? Firefox has daylies and hourlies in it's forum. Anyway this is not a reason for a bad rating. 5 from me (ex Firefox user) for this great browser |
| Diam0nd | Mar 29, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8762 Official Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Luv it!! |
| zridling | Mar 28, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8762 Official Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I can d-mn well tell you that Firefox and IE take a distant second to Opera. And if you think everyone's a fanboy, look for these same names in the Opera Forums. Software this good should be heralded. |
| outofspace | Mar 28, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8762 Official Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great software, you will try once and you will stay with Opera |
| raghu | Mar 29, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8762 Official Beta | 5 out of 5 |
great browser.right from the beging its a sensation. the very first browser which gave rise to tabbed browsing . this time its "speed dail". this feature is really fantastic. once you use this one i promise u that u dont go for another one..... opera rocks |
| betabetabeta | Feb 26, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Simply the best browser. Firefox is its nearest competitor (I give Firefox a 3/5 rating) and IE obviously sucks(1/5-Just 1 for, it's engine is used to make decent browsers as Avant Browser). Some people are arguing just because it is not freeware. When the quality of the product is so high you have to pay a price for it. BTW, Opera offers students/educational discounts. Keep the good work guys....Opera is a browser that will survive for a long long time. |
| niti | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Yes, opera and firefox are good browsers. |
| pleionis | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way!!!! |
| Pantagruel | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
niti, stop comparing Opera with FF. Both are good browsers, I find myself using Opera more than FF for many several reasons. Opera has everything you need.To make FF convenient, you have to add some extensions, which make memory usage and other characteristics almost identical. To each his own.Both are great browsers. |
| nekkat | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
daverage: What the heck are you on about? "Javascript parseing is bad"? It isn't! Opera's JavaScript support is top notch. You are just repeating the tired old lies Firefox fans have chanted about. The fact is that none of you whining about lacking JS support in Opera have a clue. Come up with SPECIFIC EXAMPLES if you don't want to look like fools. |
| stisev | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
The Best Browser Ever Coded. Hands down. |
| Babylon2x | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
niti, I strongly disagree with your comments. Concerning ram usage, I have no additional extensions installed with Firefox yet I find it uses slightly more ram than Opera does on start-up. Further more, when I did a simple test with tabbed browsing (I used Opera and Firefox to open the same 4 pages in different tabs), Firefox used around 10MB more than Opera did to do the same thing. Firefox is a good browser, but I don't personally feel it's ahead of the game. To review Opera itself, I think it's an excellent browser and it's always getting better. I still find some small rendering issues from time to time, but overall it works very well and is relatively light on system resources, particularly when using its tabbed browsing feature. |
| Stefu | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Very good browser! The fact that u can use the program for free and full with just little ads and not just for a time period make's it a very usefull program. It displays frendly ads no spyware or malware just like FlashGet who is another good program. Who don't like the ads coud buy the program! |
| yagood | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Simply the best. |
| Wes | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is simply my favorite browser, and Beta 2 has finally made 8.xx usable for me (the progress bar issue was just too much for me, so I have been sticking with 7.6tp4). I prefer it over Firefox because it seems less 'clunky' than FF on Windows, and it just seems more oriented towards Windows in general (Firefox is a great browser for Linux, and Opera's Linux build is sluggish, so don't misunderstand me). Speed is the main reason I use Opera. It has always been advertised as the fastest browser on the web, and I'd have to agree. The way it manages its cache is simply too good; after using it (bear in mind that I have dial-up), I simply could not bring myself to use a browser which reloaded pages I'd already visited if they hadn't been updated. I love it. |
| ModderXManiac | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
My favorite browser, fastest, best tabs management. In fact, it was the first browser to EVER have tabbed browsing anyway.(Opera corporation came up with the idea) This program has no real adware, AT ALL. All there is is a small advertising window ran by the Opera Corporation themselves, so If you find any adware of any kind from this browser, then go ahead and sue them, or me, if you sue me, I'll call you a dumba** because I'd know your full-of-$hite. Anyway, best browser ever, doesnt have the compatibility problems that Firefox does, the tabbed browsing is easier than anything else, and no security issues what-so-ever. If you dont like the ads, then buy the program, its worth every penny. I'd give this 10 stars if that were possible. |
| VikingBlade | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Still find Opera excellent with it's real tab support. Just can't get use to FF with the TabBrowser extension, with it's occasional tab session corruption error, and the way it mimics full tabbed browsing (opening up a new page before placing it in tab). Don't see what's wrong with Opera's adware. The same as if you were using google normally. |
| uberfly | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera's free version does contain ads, but the company has a strict policy of not monitoring your surfing habits, and it does not gather information about you or your system. Opera may lag due to the fact that they dare to charge for their software, but it doesn't take away from the fact that this is a great, VERY user friendly browser. It pioneered many of the cool features that Firefox has now adopted and IE eventually will. Keep it up Opera. |
| punkesito | Feb 25, 2005 | 8.00 Beta 2 Build 7483 | 5 out of 5 |
the fast browser for all plataforms |
| bigmama | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
kerstel engine is really fast there are many things to be done but there are in the right way keeeeeeeeep going |
| Ain Soph Aur | Sep 21, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
there are a lott of problems with the ALPHA 2: - downloaded files have no extension - emails are visible as "read" but there are "not read" (not every email) - the email client is VERY slow by showing the numbers after the folders --> Received (12) - sometimes if i tipe something in my Google field (right side of adressbar) opera opens a other page but not the google search - sometimes opera is "frozen" for seconds - a lott of usernames/passwords are not saved in WAND etc. but i love the browser, really the best out there!! and for the guys saying: "comeon, its buggy as hell..." HEY, IT ALPHA!!!! what do you expect! there are a lott of dumb people out there... |
| GrantTLC | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Using this build is smooth as silk. All the issues I noticed last build - Wand not working, downloads not saving file extensions, bookmarks not sorted in name order, etc - have been fixed, and I personally haven't yet come across a site that doesn't render properly. It's an Alpha build that - for me - runs better than any final build of any other browser. As for the crashing reported by m0user: I've never ever seen Opera crash on XP: perhaps using Vista is your problem...(also, please try not to review an ALPHA build product - this is actually a Weekly snapshot release - and then complain about bugs. Kindly come back when they release the final build.) And horsecharles, where do I even start? By your logic, NO browser has ever had a final release, since all browsers are continually being updated for security, bugfixes and additional features. See that huge download button for v9.23 on Opera's main page? That's right, A FINAL BUILD. Cretin. |
| Floodland | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser on earth. It is hard to improve even more what was already GREAT. Well, Opera team made it (again). This last build has some quirks, but hey, it is an alpha! You know you may encounter problems and we should report them to authors, that is the way development works (Except for Microsoft, which release garbage and take hundred of dollars for you to test their buggy bloated crap). |
| artisanicview | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
For improvelence: WE are not payed by nobody to make review and we are not fanboys, just peoles excited beacouse they findit THE BEST BROWSER ON EARTH. I tryed ALL the browsers that are running under Windows and all I can say, no one can stay in front of Opera. Ah, and butaway, this is only an Apha preview. |
| Diam0nd | Sep 21, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Works great for meh! |
| sparskter | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Superb Browser! Opera is a very advanced/technological browser. Lets stay away from "worshiping" here. Get the facts! Opera is: (very) fast, configurable, stable, secure, small footprint, etc! This is alpha, I know. Indee it is pretty good :) superb job :D |
| crowbar82 | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
"slower than other browsers". No way you tried this browser! |
| yokozuna | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
I think that some frustrates write here. Opera = eternal beta/alpha? Well, Opera v.9.23 stable was released on the 15th of August 2007, which means that around a month ago! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_browser The more popular items the better they are? Well, Ferrari, Porsche and Lamborghini do not share this point of view. I also think that Britney Spears is not better than Holst or Britten. I also think that "Mein Kampf" and "The short history of All Russian Bolshevik Party" is one of the best books because by far more popular than most "so called masterpieces". But definately the best book written in the 20th century was "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong" http://en.wikipedia.org/...rom_Chairman_Mao_Zedong |
| halc | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Opera keeps improving. This is a bleeding edge ALPHA version. If you don't know what that means, DON'T use it. The shared best (with Firefox) browser getting better. BTW, it's NOT in constant beta. There are new final releases more often than for FF/IE and they work! If you do not understand what ALPHA/BETA release means, use the OFFICIAL latest FINAL release. |
| aruprc | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/ Works as good as Adblock extension for FF, lets not forget, this is Alpha, not stable and therefore prone to bugs, for stability use 9.23, as for site compatibility, been using Opera since version 2x and till now, I have rarely come across sites not working with Opera, its the fastest and most secure browser and I won't want them to change in anyways, for those who don't like it, there are many other alternate browsers out there, suggest they stick with those. |
| pjb | Sep 22, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Works really well. Nice and Fast. Really good browser. |
| the artist | Sep 21, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9542 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
horsecharles, how can you be posting at "Betanews" if you don't understand what an alpha is? I expect EVERY alpha and beta to be buggy, no matter if Firefox, Opera or IE - or ANY software. What a rampant ignorant. If only mods were awake... By the way, this alphas have been very buggy to me, contrary to past experiencies with ALPHAS that have been release-solid. There are lots of changes under the hood, so i guess i'll be loving Kestrel. Good work! |
| Nyx | Oct 2, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Bobads review IS a joke. The stable tabbed browsing has been and is one of Operas strong points. It is the main reason why I've been starting to use Opera more and more. You can always rely on getting back to where you where with Opera. |
| bigmama | Sep 28, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
kerstel is really fast thumbs up! 5 out of 5 |
| RWW | Sep 28, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Long time user of Opera. Up until this build, Opera for Windows 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha beta, every one was superior to the one before. This build will not let you browse. Reloaded it, same thing. Using Maxthon also and they were equally fast until this download. |
| andyman37 | Oct 2, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Bobad you must be joking right? Opera no more secure than IE7 you say! According to Secunia,the highly respected security monitoring site,this is the up to date state of play with the two browsers: IE7: Has 10 advisories,the most serious being highly critical,with all patches installed. Opera: Has NO advisories(as usual). There is no comparison between IE7 and Opera. |
| godofthunder | Oct 3, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
TOP 5 reasons why "bobad" gave this a 1 rating. He: 1) has to spoil it for everyone. 2) can't count to 2 yet. 3) has ..1! compulsive bahaviour ..1, 1. disorder 1, 1, 1.! 4) came up with the result after an in-depth, exhaustive 3 month cross browser compatability analysis. 5) got confused and thought 1 is best rating |
| Darken | Oct 9, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
@eclipsingdivinity: For skins, tips, tweaks, addons, userjs, and many more! > http://www.neowin.net/fo...ex.php?showtopic=548527 (Neowin.net) |
| Diam0nd | Sep 28, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9562 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
This alpha works like a charm for me! |
| Avion Airplane | Apr 9, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9903 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I like Opera,but ive started using Mozilla and like it also. I think the powers to be should combine forces and have a OPERZILLA web browzer. ;=) |
| pforbes | Apr 9, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9903 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fast, reliable and flexible. In this moment is the best. I use W2000, XP and Win98 and it runs perfect on them all. |
| GrantTLC | Apr 8, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9903 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
"Mommy why do my friends make fun of Improvelence? "Well, SUSIE, that's because he's a worthless Troll who should go back under his bridge and stay there until he can learn to play nice with the normal folks." - - - Kestrel's best build to date. Everything seems to be working smooth-as-silk for me so far (I'll update if this changes). Can't be long until a final release now...! :) |
| MikeTechno | Apr 8, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9903 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I have to say, I really like this browser. Best Featue: when you copy text from a web page and past it into your e-mail client, this version of Opera knows to strip out all of the embedded web/HTML instructions and code so when you past, all you get is the text that you were looking to copy and none of the other garbage - by default! Nothing to switch on, no menues to search through. You just have to love that. EVERY other browser needs to copy that one incredible feature. That one, criticially important and highly valuable feature alone vaults this release of Opera to the top of my personal browser rankings above both Avant 11.6 and Maxthon 2.0.x |
| Diam0nd | Apr 8, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9903 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser around. Both alpha and beta builds barely crash on me. Firefox is good, but not even close. |
| Dreimanis | Dec 1, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
they are all great. internet explorer 7, opera 9, firefox 2. |
| bgronas | Dec 4, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
What are the actual changes? |
| keisan12 | Dec 2, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
this is so good,best browser for me, |
| Darken | Dec 1, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Another excellent build! @ dzjepp: I'm not the author of these tests. But, read this: «Windows browsers The tests are done on Windows XP SP2. Internet Eplorer 6 is a standard install, Internet Explorer 5 is the zip package install that can be downloaded from QuirksMode.org. (IE 5.5 crashed every time I tried to run it.) The Windows performance settings are set to the automatic setting (default). Opera 8 tests were done using Opera 8 beta 1. Mozilla 1.8 tests were done using Mozilla 1.8 alpha 6. Firefox 1.5 tests were done using Firefox 1.5 beta 2. Opera 9 tests were done using Opera 9 technical preview 1. I also tested the Moox Firefox install, "optimised" for my particular processer. I tested the new Netscape, which is basically Firefox with some added rubbish that slows it down. K-Meleon is the only other Gecko browser I tested, as is said to be the fastest one (although in fact it is slower than Mozilla and Firefox at all tasks except starting). I also tested a few browsers that are not current browsers (Netscape 4, Escape 4, Clue, Internet Explorer 5.0, Mozilla 1.0, Opera 6.03). This is done purely for the sake of interest (and it is interesting to note that IE 5.0 is significantly faster than IE 6.0). Hardware; 800 MHz Intel Pentium 3, 256 MB RAM.» |
| Xssshell | Dec 1, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I'm a programmer and I need many browsers, but Opera is my favorite one. This is not due to any technical specs, speed or any other gimmick, it is Opera's philosophy. Opera is very w3c conform and strict, and it's nice to disabled people. |
| dzjepp | Dec 1, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
12 seconds for firefox to start!!!?!?! Um, I don't think so. It cold starts in 3-4 seconds for me. What are you trying to run it on, your ti-86 calculator? |
| Daddy_Spank | Dec 3, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Dude why are you posting that BS link... first of all its build 8660 second of all if you have problems downloading from here go to operas preview site http://my.opera.com/desktopteam to download. |
| outofspace | Dec 2, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8666 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Browser for People !!! not People for Browser ( IE ) Amazing software, thx for your work ! |
| cltx99 | May 9, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Really impressed. Everything works. I didn't have to go searching for plugins. page rendering is decent, but not as fast or as complete as is claimed. All of my bookmarks from firefox were there automatically. I'll be using it for a long time. |
| guti | May 10, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
IPO in this build, really makes a performance difference. Great, Opera is now even faster! |
| tannenwheel | May 11, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
this seems to be a particular good build. i am using firefox 3 since some monnths. [with tree stye tabs (vertical tabs), stylish, stumbleupon, stop autoplay, scribe fire (blog editor), personal menu, organzie search engines, firegestures (allows opening of multiple links with a mouse stroke), autocontext, cs lite (perfect cookie controll), and some less important extentions] in firefox i miss operas popupblocker so much. and the wand. and the posibility to open windows in the background when they are trigered by a form's enter button (via pressing s***+mouseclick) i would still use opera, actually i do sometimes, and i would not even mind using two browsers for ever, if they could just use the same bookmarks (at the same time). speaking of bookmarks: opera's inability for right click context and drag and drop in the bookmark menus is the most important reason to make firefox my "first" browser. (the one which gets my up to date and complete bookmark collection) so i hope that one day the GUI toolkit gets more powerfull. as far as I know it is third party and Linux related or something (KDE?motiv?). opera can't change it, and linux stuff (open group effort stuff) is allways frigging conservative (sloooow) in evolution. love to opera |
| pforbes | May 9, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fast, stable and secure. An excellent browser, it is the one I use the most. |
| RWW | May 9, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I have tried to turn many people on to Opera. The ones that understood the advanced features now use it as default. There will always be those that cannot understand how to use a browser if it does not look like IE or have some glitzy interface. They are generally the same people that never knew there was POP 3 mail. With various buttons and other things written by the community there is no end to customizing Opera for your own use. Opera was the first software I actually paid for and I have watched and enjoyed the developement. |
| emperordarius | May 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fast, safe, reliable, but some pages can't display correctly. |
| dm1030 | May 10, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Now that I have a Stumble button for Opera, I use it for just about all sites except Google Reader. Firefox works much better on it. Anyone have any tips for getting Opera to play nicer with Reader? |
| Darken | May 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@adam.yao: All works fine without any problem! |
| Diam0nd | May 9, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
darthbeads: I hope you know you're a imbecile. Whatever browser YOU prefer, which is prolly FF, I'd never give a 1. I give FF, Avant and many other alternative browsers a 5, becase they are all great, but I just prefer Opera. But if you're too dumb to understand this concept, well, too bad, fam boi. |
| newyorksabre | May 10, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9981 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is the best, K-meleon feels and acts like it's in an alpha phase. Although fast, no difference between the two on my 4 meg connection, but lacks in almost everything compared to Opera and firefox for that matter. Stick with the pros and go Opera. 5 Stars |
| laptopy.net | Oct 3, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10443 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Working smoothly . Opera is my default browser |
| Daddy_Spank | Oct 2, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10443 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Finally RC1!! I dont think anyone has a clue about what analphatester is talking about.. Ive tried to ask him several times. Oh well. |
| Sephiroth... | Mar 30, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Some Firefox fanboys can't stand the fact that they browser eat dust compare to Opera, Opera is the best and the other crap named browser never will defeated this one ;) @horsecharles: you keep in the past baby, change to Opera :D |
| cannie | Mar 29, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fast and reliable. Better than previous versions. It allows downloads to go on even when you close Opera. Tried on different OS, it works even on Win98. I love it. |
| Fred-Erik | Mar 29, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@Diam0nd: indeed, I misunderstood. And I do agree an API would be helpful. Please delete this discussion, by the way. |
| 8189720 | Mar 30, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@horsecharles, welcome to BetaNews and thank you for your comments regarding Opera. It is the best browser ever, but please remember, that even though it's number one, you have to give it a five. It's just how the rating system here works. But, again, thanks for your comments and I'm pretty sure we all agree with you when you say it is the "Best browser EVER!!!!!!" |
| OBERSERVER | Mar 31, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fast, good scalable, userfriendly and good customizable + The only browser which is capable of loading images with right menu and scale them with [ctr+mousewheel] like I want. + Saving complete surf sessions and start back there when you want. + You can choose a plenty of very cool and helpful widgets. + You can make use of the speed dial. I don't want to miss this because I used to have it. Very helpful feature. I put 9 homepages there where I am daily. + Build in feedreader, mail-client, chat-client, bittorrent-client and more I don't need IE or FF. I am using Opera for many years and there is no browser that fits better to my needs. |
| Diam0nd | Mar 29, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fred-Erik: you missed my point completely. By opening up, I meant releasing an API for developers to write plugins. Nothing else. Best browser ever. |
| analphatester | Mar 30, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Web archive single file full working perfectly without any problem I use it continously all time without any problem. Some websites not show perfectly because webmasters optimized for IE or fIrEfox thats mean same. Opera has an very big bug. Opera faster and better then other browsers thogether. Rating: 6 (very high) |
| outofspace | Mar 30, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The most customizable browser i ever saw |
| poisonu | Apr 4, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9864 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I am looking forward to using both Firefox 3.0 & Opera 9.50 when they become final releases..... Currently using Opera 9.2x & Firefox 2.0.0.x.... |
| laptopy.net | Sep 29, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Superb experience with www |
| bigmama | Sep 26, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
good many fixes in these release |
| Blaxima | Sep 26, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Dude I really think you should look into the browser a little more. Sure things don't come in the form of plugins but you can do alot more than you think with the interface. Have a look at how my Opera looks, it's very clean and simple. http://customize.org/screenshots/60093 Custom buttons are the trick and you can get them here http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons. This is a far more robust browser than people think. You can use the status bar to put any buttons and bars you want to have the tabs bar be under it like in FF if you want. There really are alot of options people don't realise. An option I really love is that you can create custom searches with a simple right click in a search box on a site and it will be added just like that. As for this release, Opera is really starting to get back on track but I still have some minor issues that my bug reports don't seem to get fixed. Seems to keep getting faster with each release |
| Babayaga | Sep 28, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Javascript engine is not as fast as Firefox but I love this browser! |
| Diam0nd | Sep 28, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Vimes: Might not be the correct stats, since other sources show quite a different picture. Opera, August 2008: 2.1%. SOURCE: W3Schools So it might not necessarily be THAT bad. Opera > * |
| skapig | Sep 26, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Solid so far. He's right. There is way more visual customization than you think and the functionality has been there for quite a long time. Perhaps why Opera doesn't tout it as it should be. All kinds of nice widget drag-and-drop action and plenty of attractive skins. You can get it to look just how you like. |
| Vimes | Sep 26, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
When you see the size of the market that Opera gets... IE 72.39% Firefox 19.54% Safari 6.27% Chrome 0.77% Opera 0.74% Netscape 0.77% Source: Net Applications ...it really is sad as when you have used it, and grown to realise that whilst it can have its quirks, it is a really good browser which deserves more exposure. |
| Daddy_Spank | Sep 27, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10439 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@analphatester: works fine here. I can select multiple links; just click one and hold down s*** button and then click on another link to select that range. WHY you would want to do that, I got no idea, you can only open one link at the time anyways... But its not a bug, and you have now written the same review over 10 times. Time to move on, especially since there is not bug. |
| mharvey | May 20, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10005 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
anonymouscowturd: I like the fact that Opera logs in using the supplied password before I have to choose if I want Opera to store the password or not. This prevents me storing an incorrect password. I can see if the password was accepted before I choose to save it. |
| GSMAN | May 20, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10005 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
MHT files still don't tag, but if you write in .mht, it saves pages as such. Other than that, all seems good.....i haven't gotten into the digg craze/guess cause I save -everything- these days, so I don't understand that problem. Its destined to be the best,. Thanks to the Developers for the most customizable browser that comes with the ability to do most all your web-work in 1 package. |
| The Seeker 11 | May 20, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10005 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Although Digg is now finally working, I cannot digg up/down individual comments. Can anyone else confirm? Version 9.50 Beta 2 Build 1971 Platform Linux System i686, 2.6.25-4.slh.2-sidux-686 Qt library 3.3.8b Java Java Runtime Environment installed |
| Darken | May 21, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10005 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
*** Reviewer: improvelence May 21, 2008 Version: 9.50 Build 10005 Beta This browser is as lame as the real opera. Where are the plugins? *** > Plugins = Flash, Shockwave,... > Extensions/addons = Userjs >> http://my.opera.com/comm...ums/topic.dml?id=144237 + http://userjs.org + http://my.opera.com/Rijk...ox-extensions-and-opera + http://www.neowin.net/fo...ex.php?showtopic=548527 |
| Diam0nd | May 20, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10005 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
McAleck: Dude, I'd suggest you relax and keep it mind that this is a BETA/ALPHA-type release. If you want stability, use latest stable version, which is 9.27 if I remember it right. Opera > * FF is great, but O tops it in every respect, except for plugins. |
| anonymouscowturd | May 20, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10005 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The new Digg commenting system doesn't seem to crash this build which is good as it does previous builds and 9.27. Also Yahoo! mail drag and drop seem to work, but causes text selection when performing the drag. One thing i've noticed that does seem to be different is that now Opera logs you into a site before you've selected whether or not to save the password. This speeds things up i suppose but i'm undecided as to whether this is necessarily a good thing. @mharvey. Good point dude. I'm sold! |
| Jammerdelray | May 21, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10005 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Firefox is still faster :D |
| derelict | Sep 17, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
three words: paste and go. in the context menu, of the adress bard and the search bar, in addition to the normal cut, copy, and paste functions, it adds the function "paste and go," or the equivalent of hitting enter after you paste something. so simple, you'd think we'd have realized it by now. |
| ravemanson | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
Aahhh =) |
| rafaelcage | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
The best web browser on the earth!! |
| obox | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
This is much better version than previous. More speed, less bugs! Great work! |
| alanpalmer | Sep 9, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
I've loved it for years. The best browser in my opinion. |
| net_junkie | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
I had been a FireFox user mainly to avoid all the spyware and exploits with I.E.. What I didn't like about FireFox was it's slow load time, and RAM usage. Otherwise I thought it was great. I tried Opera because I read it was fast loading, fast surfing, and wasn't targeted by spyware writers as I.E.. All of this proved to be true, and I am now a convert. I hate the default setup of the toolbars, so I customized it using the MyVista toolbar setup and a different color/button scheme. I think because of all the differant setups possible, it confuses the novice user, which is Opera's downside. We all know that it's also one of Opera's strength. But because it doesn't setup like I.E., it feels foreign to beginners. If this is you, stick with it. Go to the "Community" pages and see what you can do. Opera is a safe, stable, and fast browser that you'll be very happy to have as your default browser. |
| Joey Deacon | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
How many of your "test websites" are standard compliant? Opera works fine here, it's secure, fast and feature laden. |
| mesiex | Sep 10, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
Taking into account that there are almost no web pages "optimized" for Opera, it would be good to implement a better "chamaleonic" pattern to assume as own pages created for any other. For first users the initial page should be more simple (only one row of buttons), and include as buttons history, links and downloads. There should be a better solution for downloads, to avoid stopping them by simply closing the program. In spite of all this I give it a 5 because none of the existing alternatives is perfect. |
| Darken | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
Wow! This new build work great. All my Websites works fine with this new weekly build. Good job! |
| Diam0nd | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera > * |
| Daddy_Spank | Sep 10, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
I have used opera since version 6, I think I know what I am talking about just because I dont write an essay on it. This is for stating your opinion about the product and if you think its getting better I dont see the problem in writing so. That bein said, I doubt how much YOU actually have used Opera, since it takes about 5 seconds to disable the .torrent feature. what is bothering me atm is that for some reason www.continental.com is not working with Opera at all.... I wrote them (continental) and asked what the heck, it was working fine before, but they have not gotten back to me yet... oh well. I think opera is a great browser, nothing fancy but with lots of useful features, and also the fact that it has so little marked share makes me feel better about the security also because who wants to make adware for a 1% marked share browser...? |
| uberfly | Sep 9, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera rocks!!! People who b**ch about its features usually don't know how to use the program. |
| Lebowski | Sep 8, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8573 | 5 out of 5 |
First version that I'm actually keeping. No longer the akward spacing on my sites. |
| Sephiroth... | Oct 14, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
@bittermann: that test only in javascript and the reality show that Opera is the speediest out there, now if you care so much about chrome and FF go to report about all the bug and slowdown , especially FF :D |
| ciohaeso | Oct 26, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
@ CyberDoc999: Opera already have included the noscripts feature, and in security Opera is the Best, only see that in Secunia.com |
| grisla | Oct 15, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
@Vimes. What's the problem with Opera's script controls? Right click a page, select "Edit site preferences/Scripting" and make your choices. Or you can turn off Java scripts universally via "Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Content". |
| Chocobito | Oct 15, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera always the speediest browser ever, the JavaScript speed is only noticeable if you have a -400mHz or an old PC, now with all modern PC have +1000Mhz and Double Core CPU the JavaScript speed is irrelevant. In the real world Opera feel and IS more fast that others browsers like FF. |
| SmokingCat | Oct 14, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
In rendering speed Opera is the King. |
| blabbery | Oct 15, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
@bittermann "There you have it...Betanew's own browser tests show that Opera is getting slower and buggier." Huh? It shows no such thing. It says nothing about "bugs" (although it is a beta), and it actually shows a slight performance improvement if you look at the numbers. And that is despite the fact that 10.10 was never supposed to be focused on performance in the first place. Lastly, BetaNews's test is completely useless and filled with garbage like the irrelevant artificial JS benchmarks that are specifically optimized for Safari or Chrome. |
| uestudae | Oct 14, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1833 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
@smarterthanyou: all broswer out there are superior to IE |
| Darken | Jul 26, 2006 | 9.01 Build 8543 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Another excellent build. For me, all works fine with all my Websites (bank, forum,...). Gmail --> Work fine Hotmail/Live mail --> Work fine Google, neowin, deviantART, WinCustomize (new design) and many more! Don't forget to check if the Website is not "optimized" for Internet Explorer. (use spoofing/masking) -- More info: http://operawatch.com/ne...d-how-to-bypass-it.html |
| Diam0nd | Jul 26, 2006 | 9.01 Build 8543 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Ownage. |
| aruprc | Jul 27, 2006 | 9.01 Build 8543 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Been a Opera user since version 3, have used every other major browser as alternate but Opera rules for me. |
| Paul Skinner | Jan 13, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1229 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
This is easily turning out to be the best version of Opera yet. The stability of these alphas is amazing (compared to previous alpha phases). Acid 3 being rendered 100% correctly is also wonderful. |
| waxwing | Jan 13, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1229 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Alpha's are normally, with most products, very trouble prone, I haven't had a single problem with any of the alpha versions of version 10. |
| RWW | Jan 15, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1229 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Would never think it was an alpha! Very, very fast and accurate. Had a problem loading the last few versions and found I was not alone. Could not completely uninstall and start over as Opera would not show on any uninstaller. It is necessary to go to the two or three Opera references in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software|Classes and delete them. Restart and then install fresh copy of Opera. |
| Blaxima | Jan 14, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1229 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
I've been singing Opera's praises for a while but honestly, NOW it really is deserving. The great things about it still are great but the page rendering of sites has greatly improved(still some won't but they won't even in firefox now too so...) and the addition of a spell checker was looooooong over due. The stability of these alpha's are impressive. This release addressed 2 issues I had with the last alpha so they are definitely taking this browser to the next level. |
| alanpalmer | Jan 13, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1229 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Remarkably stable for an alpha. I've also not had a single problem since the v.10 alphas came out (so far!). |
| keiichi999 | Jan 13, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1229 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
the auto-update along with glorious acide-test results and security history make this the best opera version and best browser so far. |
| decmk | Dec 14, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9694 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great Work. btw how to remove tray icon, i don't use mail. |
| stisev | Dec 15, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9694 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
NOW I can go back to giving Opera 5 stars! The bookmark link exchange bug has been fixed (finally! after 6 months) |
| Diam0nd | Dec 14, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9694 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
#1 browser. theres simply nothing faster!!! same question: how to remove tray icon? I NEVER used opera mail nor irc or other crap. |
| Daddy_Spank | Dec 19, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9694 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
9.25 is out. |
| IGx89 | Jan 25, 2002 | 6.01 Beta Build 1029 | 5 out of 5 |
I just love Opera; been using it since 5.0 :) There's no reason to run it in WINE, there's a linux-only version of Opera to use! |
| debonair | Jan 25, 2002 | 6.01 Beta Build 1029 | 5 out of 5 |
best there is. too bad I still need to use ie on occation. |
| Kriff | Jan 4, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9721 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Working flawlessly. It's fast and stable. |
| bigmama | Jan 4, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9721 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The fastest browser. Great and highly recommended |
| Floodland | Jan 5, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9721 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great browser, the best for install ang go. With Firefox you need to install several addons to make it work close to Opera. Latest FF beta is almost as fast as Opera, but Opera already has almost all I need included, tested and working. Only lacks a better ad blocker (it has one, but you have to manually block content) and a spell checker. |
| Darken | Jan 4, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9721 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent new snapshot build! |
| Diam0nd | Jan 4, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9721 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fastest browser around! FF doesnt even come close! |
| outofspace | Jan 5, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9721 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This is what i call speeeeed! Incoming 9.50 will rock the web |
| bolaris | Jan 7, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9721 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I think i've developed a compulsive behaviour disorder by obsessively checking for these updates. |
| Kramy | Feb 17, 2006 | 8.52 | 5 out of 5 |
Don't like the lack of customizability. It allows you to do *some* things, but my tastes of where things go are different than most people's. Last I checked it couldn't turn a panel into a toolbar, but I haven't tried 8.52 explicitely, so it could have changed since I installed it. Stable. |
| RWW | Feb 17, 2006 | 8.52 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera has been my default browser for about two years. Started using it as a secondary a long time ago, it is one of the first softwares I actually paid for. It has really grown since 7....that is when I really noticed exactly how much better it had become. I have set it up for many people and become irritated when people find it takes a few brains to use it and they stick with IE. It's a great browser and I find new things about its customization all the time. |
| UTAKER | Feb 17, 2006 | 8.52 | 5 out of 5 |
excellent but *right click in the bookmarks should work, you know, its hard to goto manage bookmarks to edit etc |
| NurEinTier | Feb 17, 2006 | 8.52 | 5 out of 5 |
Several browsers are exellent but one is more exellent than others...Opera! Try it. Tweak it. Cons: a bit of a learning curve. some sites will not work. The upcoming 9.0 is even better (adblocker). |
| some guy | Feb 17, 2006 | 8.52 | 5 out of 5 |
use to be a big fire fox fan but I like Opera better 1 speed page loads+ opens faster 2 dosn't crash on a windows embed video 3 small foot print on sys 4 love the note option in tools great for copy paste text. the only thing I have had a problem with is some fourm buttons are non clickable? |
| xVariable | Apr 12, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1078 | 5 out of 5 |
Hawkeye, with all due respect: removing IE from W98 and swapping in the W95 Explorer (with 98 Lite) makes a HUGE difference in memory useage, available RAM for non-OS apps, and overall system responsiveness. The more things you add to the mix, the more things the OS has to juggle and cache. Removing IE and swapping-in W95's Explorer makes a huge difference. You said: 1) IE doesn't take that much memory. Well, this is a subjective opinion. How do you define "too much"? Probably pretty much the exact opposite of how I'd define it. 2) Removing IE cripples the OS? Pffft, those that don't understand how 98 Lite works, don't believe this for a second. IMO (and that of countless thousands (millions?) of others), removing IE from Windows LIBERATES it. Do you really think all these people using 98 Lite would continue to do so if it "crippled" their OS? This is just pure FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt.) Oh btw, Opera rocks as usual. |
| djtf | Jun 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8501 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
State-of-the-Art Browser!We all have to honor the efforts of the developers! Imagine how perfect the final will be! I stay tuned! ;-) |
| Lurifax | Jun 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8501 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser by far. This beta is the best yet. Five stars. |
| patel | Jun 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8501 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Plz grow up guys ! If your yahoo mail cannot open in OPERA, its not the problem with browser, its the coding problem. Their code is not compatible with opera. For this reason you should not rate it bad... Its so far the fastest browser i've come across. Good JOB |
| crowbar82 | Jun 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8501 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I dont like this browser, I LOVE it! |
| yokozuna | Jun 20, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8501 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera 9.0 was released around 6 hours ago ;-) Probably you will need the newest Flash Player from here: http://fpdownload.macrom...flash_player_9_beta.exe It perfectly works with Opera 9. Problems with flash pages are caused by the old plugin, not Opera itself. |
| 1uk3 | Jun 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8501 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
It's very very good! This is the first build I've tried in quite a while and there have been a lot of improvements. The only thing that keeps me using Firefox over Opera is Firefox has great extensions. Opera is faster, prettier and better than Firefox in lots of ways though. //Final version 9.0 has been released |
| iandol | Sep 20, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 13 Build 3139 | 5 out of 5 |
New beta is great, stability fixes and a new mechanism to invoke inline-find (close to mozilla's find-as-you-type). In case people missed it, beta 11 introduced a radical departure for advertising in software. Opera now uses google text ads relevent to the visited page (no graphics), plus a related searches bar - so the ad's are actually useful for a change. Strict privacy policy guarantees your surfing anonimity (been packet-sniffed by independant parities to confirm this too). |
| birkis | Sep 19, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
@Mandeep: I have noticed that Opera uses longer to start the first time (guess it's because it creates some directories and such), so be sure that Opera has been up and running at least once before you do the startup test. |
| BoNeLeSS | Sep 19, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
Thanks for you argumented opinion phiber0ptik. GTFO |
| BadIronTree | Sep 20, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
Couscous just lol have you ever used opera tha last 6 months? PS: if you dont like bugs and crash. STOP USEING BETAS |
| FriscoKid | Sep 19, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
I have used Opera for many years, having paid for the first 3 releases--I would still pay for it. Opera is fast and resource friendly. You can open tabs within one copy of the program running--I have had 20 tabs open at once. You can use as much ram as you choose for cache, lessening the need to read cache from HD. One of my favorite features is the Wand, which is a built-in password feature. I have never needed an external password program because Opera Wand remembers. It has provision for multiple personalities--e.g. I have 4 different Yahoo accounts, and Wand allows me to select which account I want to login, then provides the correct password. I recommend Opera for all browsing--the only time I use IE is to download Windows patches and updates. |
| alanpalmer | Sep 19, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
Are we back to the nightly builds? Still doesn't get supported by Yahoo Mail beta. |
| Diam0nd | Sep 20, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
OPERA > * Works as a charm. |
| anonymouscowturd | Sep 19, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
Still no advance on the Yahoo! Mail beta. I guess it's just blocked and no amount of fiddling will help. I've tried masking and changing the user agent no joy. bggoth: That link didn't help. I already have an account and all it did was just point me to the logiin page anyhow. Everything else seems to be ok. phiber0ptik: If you going to say it sucks at least give a reason why. The people trying Opera here already now how it behaves and how good/bad it is. You're not going to sway anyone by just saying it sucks... |
| some guy | Sep 20, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
renders a page faster then any other browser. smaller footprint then firefox. I love the copy to note option, great for programers or copying text. One thing I wish they would do for people that aren't to computer savy is create a lite version. I see alot of people that switch just get to confused with all the option's, but it's the best out their today it's free what more could you want? |
| zridling | Sep 19, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is by far my favorite browser, but two things they could do to make the transition easier for anyone looking to convert: (1) make fonts easier and simpler, and (2) change that wacky IE7-like tab behavior. It should not be hard just to ask that all — all — tabs open in the background without pressing extra keys or hitting the middle mouse button. If for no other reason you'll want Opera — customizable keyboard shortcuts! |
| the artist | Sep 19, 2006 | 9.02 Build 8585 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
@Mandeep too: for the sake of objetivity, listen to me: what the F*CK did you want to do by comparing browser with a cold start?! WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH A BROWSERS QUALITY, WITH THE BROWSING SPEED, SECURITY, RENDERING AND STANDARDS SUPPORT?!! It was long since i read such a stupid thing! I'm no fanboy, i respect both browsers but this comment just... i couldn't stand it. |
| magusg | Nov 16, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9656 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Ok, the last two reviewers are idiots, if alpha/beta quality releases arent cutting it for you, logic dictates that you should go back to the last stable and wait for the next one. I'll agree the stability and quality of these releases has been iffy at best, some better than others, but still, it is alpha quality, so you really can't complain. However, I see a lot of progress in these releases and a final product will come to be soon enough, the Kestrel Rendering engine is fast... |
| Diam0nd | Nov 19, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9656 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser out there, but what really DOES suck about it and its developer team is plug-in support... As in no AI RoboForm :( |
| Daddy_Spank | Nov 16, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9656 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
who uses safari unless they HAVE to anyway. 9.50 getting better and better... |
| nms04 | Nov 19, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9656 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
@GrantTLC this is still an alpha release! so wait for 9.5 final! compare this one with firefox 3.0 alpha ... this opera release has less bugs and works better ... |
| bigmama | Apr 24, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
best browser everything you need without extentions and other staff the best speed and high standards in security good version-release times and a good customize ability If I could give 10 rating... |
| Paul Skinner | Apr 23, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
For me, as a technical minded person, this is the best browser for my needs. I can't really fault the new 9.5 version as it renders almost all the IE designed pages as it should do now. |
| netean | Apr 23, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
9.5 has generally been superb throughout the whole (very long) beta cycle. It's wonderfully fast, seems to work with pretty much everysite I visit now. Don't use the mail component so can't comment on latest improvements there. but as a browser, it's really superb. Please, Opera, get this out of beta... it feels like it's been in beta forever! |
| alanpalmer | Apr 23, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Well, at least we're up to Beta 2. ;) |
| Diam0nd | Apr 23, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Every time I use FF it just doesn't even come close. But unlike FF-boys, I'm NOT gonna say that FF sucks, it ROCKS, it's just #2 for me, not #1. Opera > * |
| analphatester | Apr 23, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
I just see statistic opera users 2% I think Iam will the last opera user on the planet but I never use other browsers only the best :) i think 2 from 100 not too much but how many people have an FERRARI ??? 2 from 100 ??? Rating: 6 (very high) |
| jspratjr | Apr 23, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
improvelence you're an idiot. Getting better all the time... |
| Daddy_Spank | Apr 24, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
SO much fun following the improvement of this browser - regardless of its slow progress. But i think its better than so many others software vendors that just pushes their software out before its ready. Go Opera!! |
| outofspace | May 2, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9945 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
I want Browser For People from People, So my choise is Opera. Also Great mail client M2 inside! |
| DigitalSin | Aug 25, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7141 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera owns, and I never thought I'd say that until I have it an honest try about 6 months ago when I was using FireFox. |
| Enamour | Aug 25, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7141 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser on the planet...and no, it does NOT have ad aware in it. 5/5 |
| punkesito | Aug 25, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7141 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
the best of the best 11 stars |
| jcgamer60 | Aug 25, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7141 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
The new voice browsing feature is amazing ive been using it all day. Opera just gets better and better |
| blackpages | Sep 2, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 8 | 5 out of 5 |
Support is always available. Opera works when all of microsoft's browser has been completely removed with IEradicator, 98lite, or XPlite. In the Opera developers corner I see microsoft MSN had been stopping people using the Opera browser by sending users to an MSN page that didn't work basically, how anticompeditive. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. |
| guti | Jun 6, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Engine has been always excellent. Now with the new skin, it also looks good! |
| Betachecker | Jun 6, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Cool new interface, btw i hate skins |
| arjesus | Jun 5, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The best browser ever +the new look is great -browser menus still dont work on www.deviantart.com =( |
| Darken | Jun 6, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent build and very nice skin. @nms04: Right click > Customize... > Panels > Show panel toggle at the edge of window |
| Diam0nd | Jun 5, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera > * Great skin!!! Known issues: Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled. All the search icons are Opera icons Translate menu doesn't work Panel dropdown selector doesn't work changelog Fixed links in the fraud protection dialog Fixed crash when saving mhtml files Fixed random crasher when going back in history Fixed moving videos on youtube when hovering tabs Made form submit work properly in widgets Fixed bug where plugins would continue streaming after closing a tab XHR - Fixed calling of calling abort() from readyState 2 or 3 More fixes to xpath Fixed viewing of feeds with slow loading images Fixed problem with duplication of bookmarks when using Opera Link Fixed issue where the integrated Dragonfly window would be too tall Added three default speed dial entries Windows: Fixed the default Save and Open dialog folders UNIX: Fixed import of mail on when using the QT filechooser UNIX: Improved finding of icons for download dialog UNIX: Fixed filename when saving URL's |
| anonymouscowturd | Jun 6, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I love Opera. I really do. I've been using it since about version 3-4. But for christ sakes why can't they give the thing a decent skin? The 7-9.27 series had a default skin that thoroughly sucked. Now this one is a distinct improvement but it still sucks. Just slightly less so. It's about time the graphics department pulled out their finger and gave first time users' first impression the first class treatment it deserves! And another thing is if they don't get this damn thing out of BETA/RC pretty soon Opera will become irrelevant if its not careful, especially with a resurgent FFX3. As a developer i can understand that we like things to be "perfect" but for the sake of Opera users and Opera the company they really should get this thing released now! |
| Daddy_Spank | Jun 5, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I love the new skin... if you want a smaller space saving skin try this: http://my.opera.com/comm...mize/skins/info/?id=656 Beta testing is taking as long as it takes before its ready for release. |
| exit | Jun 5, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10048 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great new skin and new way to open the left panel Just click the x shaped tools under file |
| mrgrieves | Jan 21, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera doesn't have tab groups but it does have sessions. You can save the state of all open tabs as a session and then open an entire session in one go or have a specific session load up when you start Opera. Or, alternatively you can just create folders in your bookmarks list and open up its entire contents in one go. You can also tell Opera to start up where you left off with all open tabs which I think is great. I don't agree with you that Opera lacks functionality, quite the opposite. |
| Marcinneekk23 | Jan 19, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Still the best... |
| Mastertech | Jan 19, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Attention: This build is experimental. It contains a feature reporting system that will report back usage of a number of features to Opera once per week. Yes, you can turn the feature off: opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableUsageReport So, what does the report contain? You can check yourself, a copy of the next report is stored in the Opera profile directory, under usagereport/report.xml. It reports things like what preferences you have enabled or not, whether you use Widgets or not, and how many bookmarks you have. Only numbers*, no domain names or other sensitive data. *) Excluding Visa and MasterCard Changelog: * Included experimental feature reporting mechanism * Java works again * Some stability fixes |
| adamlau | Jan 19, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Absolutely the best... |
| gnovak1 | Jan 24, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I will describe Opera 9.12 in one word:PERFECTION! It's fast, much faster than IE or Mozilla and has everything you need!Since I installed it I stopped using IE!Like I said:PERFECTION! |
| keisan12 | Jan 27, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Everything works fine! perfect for me |
| Darken | Jan 19, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent build! More infos (changelog + Usage Report included in this build) >> http://www.neowin.net/fo...indpost&p=588242947 |
| Diam0nd | Jan 19, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Ownage! And btw, java works just fine. |
| wat0114 | Jan 19, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Java works again and this is an excellent build. Well done, Opera Team! |
| the artist | Jan 21, 2007 | 9.12 Build 8701 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
bobad, you're an idiot! you don't even know the program and you criticize it! Opera, functionally behind Firefox and Maxthron?!! WHAT??!!! As someone else said, this forum atracts some idiots. |
| PWT999 | Oct 7, 2003 | 7.21 Release Candidate 2 | 5 out of 5 |
I had a few stability issues in the early days of the 7.20 betas (expected) but non whatsoever recently. I don't care much for the email client & believe that Opera should consider offering a browser only version of erm...Opera. That aside, it's the best thing since sliced bread. If you don?t like it consider actually installing the product. |
| birkis | Jul 2, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
@Alexander-GG >> Why should you care? If your wrench does not fit the bolt because the bolt manufacturer chose to deviate from the standard... Is that the wrench manufacturer's fault? Who would you complain to? Both Opera and Firefox are excellent browsers. I use Opera because I love the speed, the customizability, the keyboard shortcuts, the mouse gestures - all directly out-of-the-box. |
| Satansgeek | Jul 2, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
While I'm happy to give the product a high rating this particular download appears to have a corrupted cab file and thus be unusable. |
| tafugate | Jul 2, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
i sorta kinda see what al's saying. most of us don't care what's under the hood, we just want web pages to render correctly. but i also see what opera is saying, conform to standards, and everyone's browsing experience will be lighter, faster, and most of all, the browser should be invisible, rather than a hassle. opera is light on the computer resources, works out of the box, and does everything i need it to do. great browser. |
| Blaxima | Jul 2, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Well I can't see what Alexander is saying because DevArt loads for me without any troubles and it did so with 9.50 too. I certainly can't see or believe that FF is the same or faster because that has never been my experience and the difference in speed now is even greater. There are some sites that cause hiccups though but I don't come across them like I used too. With that said 9.50 was a great step forward but wasn't ready to be released. It gave better speeds while having so many built in features and still lighter than the others while being the safest BUT it also introduced some new flaws that definately impacted the browsing experience. 9.51 has corrected all of my concerns thus far. Good job by the Opera team jumping to fix it as quick as they did. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T WANT THE TRAY ICON To remove the tray icon, you need to edit the shortcut used to start Opera, at the end of the command add /notrayicon -credit goes to sgunhouse for the tip- |
| ahjefri | Jul 6, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
5 for the big improvement over the previous version,, still it's very annoying to use it in work specially with NTLM authentication, for every link I have to enter user id and password,, ??? Firefox 3 is even better than IE6,7 in this area,, The best thing in opera that I can control disabling images for each tab alone which is only supported in Opera, |
| aepasa | Jul 3, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Only wish if a new tab plus sign is not [only] on the right side [scalable, so I have visualy to search for a button], but also on the left side [fixed, so I don't have to guess iT's position]! Thanks |
| Diam0nd | Jul 2, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Alexander-GG: Just so you know, Opera gets one of the highest scores on the ACID test. So it's devianrt's fault that they pages don't load correctly, not Opera's. |
| Alexander-GG | Jul 4, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
I like the new interface of Opera, so, today I installed Opera (9.51) again. The pages at deviantArt now are displayed correctly. When I was opening the DA pages (with Opera 9.50, cause I don’t like to test betas) the page-add at the header (top) was placed right in the centre of the page and I was unable to see the content. You may see the same “effect” if you open now the homepage of the Orbit downloader. There are some more websites where you can see the same problem. So, now 5 for good interface and speed. |
| exit | Jul 3, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
This build wont allow me to sign into the basic hotmail |
| aruprc | Jul 2, 2008 | 9.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Fast, light, secure and runs without glitches with a nice slick interface. Handles mail, RSS, news and torrents, its the best all in one client out there. |
| belthurgp | Aug 18, 2008 | 9.52 Build 10108 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
Good build considering it's a RC2. Yeah, I have noticied that we are unable to log into some sites.. Seriously, Opera comes with so much features by default, FF should bow its head in shame. You can't do anything more than the basic in FF without thirdparty extensions. |
| Zero-Point | Jul 17, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1643 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera Unite and Opera browser are not two separate browsers; Opera unite is a component of the Opera browser that acts as a web server for collaboration with other Unite users. The [official] build of 10.0 Beta 2 (build 1642) does not include Unite, the other [Beta 2+, build 1643], as a development snapshot, does. This is because the developers do not feel Unite is ready for an official beta release. |
| MasterTB | Jul 16, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1643 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
You can find the UNITE included builds here: http://my.opera.com/desk.../07/16/more-than-beta-2 at the Desktop Team Blog. The UNITE is still the same as launched, with improvements on the proxies from Opera's servers so it runs better. Hope you enjoy this GREAT peace of software. |
| Blaxima | Jul 19, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1643 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This release as others have said has Unite included. It really is quite amazing the speed difference with v10 all the while they've been adding so many new features to it. Changelog: User Interface: Restyled Home Button Further tweaking of opera:x, error and fraud pages look New icons for setting status in a chat window Fixed Bug DSK-256805 (Opera crashes when dragging separator to trash can) Fixed Bug DSK-258230 (Padlock icon stretched on Security Information dialog): Full set of padlock icons for security dialog Core: Fixed Bug CORE-16936 (Flickering and freezing - always scrolling to top (rtl.de)) Fixed Bug CORE-18854 (Going to a fraud URL with a username crashes Opera) Fixed Bug CORE-22634 (Local cookies aren't listed in site pref cookie tab (caused problems for Unite)) Fixed Bug DSK-200545 (Cookie crash on exit) Fixed Bug DSK-256433 (Gmail locks up when zoomed) Fixed Bug DSK-258426 (Infinite iframe recursion when src=="javascript:void(0)", until memory runs out) Fixed Bug CORE-22048 (Links opened from mail and newsfeeds stop loading when you focus another mail/feed entry) Fixed Bug DSK-257739 (Importing mail fails when files are open) Opera Unite Changed "Home" To "My Opera Unite page" Disabled advanced settings button if "disabled" is selected Fixed Bug DSK-254303 (Installing Unite services from file (on disk), breaks service when deleting file) Fixed Bug DSK-254960 (Changing service name in replacement dialog is not reflected in admin view): Setting service name during installation only applied in the gadget after re-start Partial Fix of Bug DSK-257931 (Add visibility of Unite users on the local network): The local service discovery, UI part Fixed Bug DSK-258328 (Logging out and logging in with a different username doesnt work): Storing username even though password isn't stored Fixed Bug DSK-258449 ('Restart Opera Unite' option checked by default on start-up dialog even when Unite is not enabled) Fixed Bug DSK-258470 (Global visibility options not saved when enabling Unite) |
| Alexander-GG | Jul 17, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1643 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
2 betas in almost one day? NO. The point is that Opera realizes two browsers - Opera Browser, which you can find here http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ and Opera Unite, which you can find here http://unite.opera.com/ . The build 1642 Beta, which was realized yesterday was usual Opera Browser. But the build 1643 which was realized today is Opera Unite. They have even differently named installers, not just the different build numbers. The point is that Beta News mixed this two, in idea different browsers in one article. So, it's not an Opera teams fault and there are no two betas in almost one day. Beta News should make two articles - Opera Browser and Opera Unite. I use Ope Unite and rate it 5. |
| Musashi_Sama | Nov 14, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
Very compatible, even faster and lighter than Mozilla Firefox. No crashes in this version... A Five Star rate :) |
| joshpx | Nov 13, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
This is silly. Opera has great support for W3C standards AND nonstandard code. Its JavaScript engine is much faster than Firefox/Gecko. Thumbs up! |
| iandol | Nov 20, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
First off - remember these previews are PRE-BETA; they are intended to test out more radical changes to a small set of testers. Having said that preview 3 is really great. The interface is tighter than ever, though I imagine more changes are instore before a public beta. A new customisable start toolbar drops down from the address field with things like your history, top 10 sites etc. Previously closed pages and blocked pop-ups are put into a trash can on the page (tab) bar - a neat touch. Everything is much more slimline and minimalist. The Extensible Rendering Architecture (medium screen rendering), though still with some bugs, is shaping up nicely. The idea is that you'll never have to scroll badly designed web pages, they will be dynamically reflowed to fit your screen resolution! Sadly, voice control doesn't work on my soundcard, but several users are developing powerful stylesheets to allow Opera to function as a screen reader. Good stuff overall... |
| httpd.confused | Nov 12, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
Well, gee, let's see: Firefox has been plastered all over the news lately, and is free. Think that has something to do with its popularity? If not, just look on this site at how skewed reviews are, in general, based simply on freeware/payware status. The trend is as obvious as brightness while staring at the sun. (Note: None of this discourse is meant to convey that I dislike Firefox.) Opera 7.60 Preview 1 was very unstable for me. Preview 2 ran very well, and so far, so is Preview 3. I've been using Opera 7.x for several months now, and almost *never* have to resort to Insecure Explorer. I'd really love to see a list of web sites that Opera supposedly displays incorrectly, according to some of these reviewers. I have no such problems, and I do a *lot* of surfing. Let me guess--they're all under microsoft.com and msn.com? I find it hilarious that people indignantly say that they refuse to use Opera because of its ONE ad banner. Think about it: The entire internet is littered with banner ads of all sorts, including this very site. And what is Opera? A web browser that graciously displays those ads for you. What's this you say, you use an ad blocker? Well, a good ad blocker will get rid of Opera's built-in ad, too. This is simply too funny! |
| da3x | Nov 13, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera was and is my Browser of choice for years. It has constantly improved its features and is unbeaten in flexibility and comfort when it comes to email and browsing. |
| semuta | Nov 13, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
I don't think the cluttered interface criticism is valid at all. Ths interface is extremely configurable and there are hundreds of skins to choose from. If you don't like the way it looks, change it! Opera has become like a favorite blanket for me because it IS so configurable. I've got it exactly how I want it and the developers just keep adding more and more amazing features. I've tried Firefox a few times but keep coming back to Opera. |
| chimpypimpy | Nov 13, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is the best and has been the best for a very long time. Firefox fanboys like to dis Opera even though they haven't tried Opera. Opera = FIREFIX. |
| Dave_K | Nov 14, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera 7.6 p3 has removed most of the clutter. The menus are slimmed down and there are less toolbars on by default. But when it's so easy to tweak the user interface I don't see what the problem is anyway. If you don't like a toolbar or feature you simply turn it off. It took me about 2 minutes to configure this preview's UI to be exactly what I wanted, it's not much hassle. I haven't had any crashes yet, it seems very fast and bug free for a pre-beta. It's easily worth 5 stars and IMO is better than the 1.0 release of Firefox. |
| yokozuna | Nov 13, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
@Inray, Opera fully complies with W3C, and for some webdesigners it is a huge problem. Put simply, they accustomed to deal with "de facto IE standard". IMO the policy of Opera AS is right. Comply with W3C or die. Most ironic M$ also belongs to the organisation, however, they do not respect anything what comes from it. |
| rabeed | Nov 14, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
Squire72: CLUTTERED? Which version have you been using? The 7.60 P3 default is far less cluttered than MSIE! And what bloat? It's a far smaller download than either MSIE or Mozilla! This is the best browser/email client ever. |
| coba | Nov 26, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
I found that this version can check Gmail account. What the nice and fast browser on earth, thanks OPERA. |
| bunghole | Nov 12, 2004 | 7.60 Build 7321 Preview 3 | 5 out of 5 |
I've had the opposite experience using Opera than some others here. Opera renders perfectly for me, especially with these latest builds. Firefox even in 1.0 chokes on a lot of sites and is still too buggy and quirky. 5+ for Opera |
| jonspencerbx | Mar 4, 2005 | 8.0 Technical Preview 5 Build 7497 | 5 out of 5 |
Please read this before downloading and istalling Preview 5: http://my.opera.com/foru...p?s=&threadid=83349 |
| joshpx | Mar 5, 2005 | 8.0 Technical Preview 5 Build 7497 | 5 out of 5 |
CapZap, how about paying attention before whining about a PREVIEW? The Window menu is there if you turn on the advanced Opera workspace in the Windows preferences. Oh yeah, and how is Opera 8 not "mean and lean"? It's a LOT cleaner than older versions. What top, bottom etc. menus?! It doesn't even show the PANELS by default. ---------------------------------------- Oh yeah, and this jofin character and his "adware" comment... Why wouldn't people install Opera because it's adware? IT DOES NOT install adware on your PC, as the ads are BUILT INTO OPERA! So there's no spyware or anything, so quit spreading lies about Opera. |
| bts | Mar 5, 2005 | 8.0 Technical Preview 5 Build 7497 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera really shows promise with version 8. It's as fast as ever and has some much needed features like update notification and report a site problem as well as a cleaner interface. Once 8.0 final is released everyone using older versions should upgrade immediately. |
| yokozuna | Mar 4, 2005 | 8.0 Technical Preview 5 Build 7497 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is an excellent browser. I do not know if Firefox is better than Opera, or vice versa. I guess it depends on personal preferences. I prefer Ferrari, but some other people may prefer Lamborghini :-). Both are very good. I prefer Opera. I do not pay much attention it is shareware/adware - I worked for a long time with ads (actually, it is not a classical form of adware - the ads advertise Opera itself only, and the browser does not connect any site what adware programs do), but I bought the browser around 4 months ago. BTW, there are many discounts, so check if you qualify. I did :-) I do not take Internet Exploder into my consideration. It is one more upgrade of NCSA Mosaic. ROTFL! FF & Opera are much better. Bill Shakespeare would call IE "much ado about nothing". Finally, I agree that anyone who published key for any software (independently what kind of software) should be immediately banned and his post removed. |
| Lord_ProtoZz | Mar 4, 2005 | 8.0 Technical Preview 5 Build 7497 | 5 out of 5 |
faja, ha-ha-ha-ha... You know... There are so much warez sites... That your words sound so fondly... |
| GimieGimieGimie | Apr 12, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8367 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Just a quick review between v8.54 and this build: Fantastic upgrade, additional useful features without comprimising the excellence of the previous version. And the inclusion of saving a webpage to a single file (mht) has FINALLY been included in another browser other then IE (i've been waiting for this for YEARS), thank god! Opera has always been ahead of IE in terms of its features for over 6 years now (as far as i can remember v3.0) but has always had the irony of not including the simple but useful features IE offered, glad after all these time, Opera is finally catching up. I just hope they match IE's simplicity one day in terms of including a right click context menu in everything they do. This is an age old argument i've already had over in the Opera forums and they still haven't advanced with this, which is my only negitive comment to make about Opera and its company, too much pride. If you want to be the best of the best, you got to include the best of the best that has come before you, not what tickles your fancy as a programmer, this is fact and will always be fact, and i hope that Opera includes ALL of IE's wonderful features one day. (Yes, IE was good for something once upon a time) But back to this build, i am certainly enjoying this build over v8.54 and i doubt i'll go back, so great work Opera team! |
| BadIronTree | Apr 16, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8367 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
the best ever |
| AntiochMedia | Apr 11, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8367 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I like Opera - and it's interesting to be able to view sites as they would appear on a cell phone. One issue that I have with Opera's small screen support is that on many of my sites, I have a DIV area with height: 1px and opacity at zero. It works fine in Opera, Firefox, and IE - but the minibrowser expands the area and all content, which I can't find a way around. I also don't understand why Arial Unicode MS is set as the default font for menus, but Opera opens and uses the system font for all of my menus. Each time I reinstall, I have to manually select Arial Unicode MS (even though it is set in the options screen). Each install resets this. Weird - and I've not found anything about this on the net. And I don't care for the widgets =) - I think they are silly =) |
| yanike | Apr 16, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8367 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Awesome Browser! It does support flash content. Go to the flash site and download flash player to your PC, shut down Opera completely and run the flash installer. Restart Opera and Flash Works :) Also try my new IE7 for Opera skin(http://my.opera.com/comm...ize/skins/info/?id=3520) for the beta. I decided to do this new skin, cause some Opera users were saying the old skins didn't look right. |
| Wes | Apr 11, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8367 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Changes: Stability fixes. Save directory only reset to Download directory when Download directory is changed. Fixed viewing messages in GMail. "Cycle without showing list" now includes also minimized pages. Unix specific: X clipboard fixed. Fixed RSS stylesheet on Unix. |
| Terumo | Apr 11, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8367 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Jeg liker dette mer og mer. Det er ikke lenge til nå før vi får en ferdig versjon av Opera. Stå på. Terumo |
| SebXX | Apr 12, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8367 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is really a nice browser: light, fast to load, with a very pleasant design... And a lot of features for advanced users (but still easy to use) The only bad point I found in this version 9 is the lack of support for Flash plugin... (but hey, it's still a beta) Else I found the "block content" tool amazing! Far better than Firefox (I was tired to search for extensions to get the same power as I have in Opera) Well done Opera! |
| laptopy.net | Jul 6, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1622 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
You're simply the best, better than all the rest Better than anyone, anyone I've ever met I'm stuck on your heart, I hang on every word you say Tear us apart no, no, baby, I would rather be dead |
| bigmama | Jul 3, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1622 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
i like it !!! the best and the fastest browser |
| Blaxima | Jul 3, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1622 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The new skin has taken a little step back with this release but I don't use it so it doesn't bother me. What I do use this for it comes through with shinning colours(why is the spell check saying I spelled colour wrong? isn't it only Americans who spell it c o l o r?) now where was I? In my testing Opera runs leaner than the others, is fast and is rendering every page I come across properly now. They continue to add new innovations and somehow still be lean. I haven't come across any issues in the last 3 builds like I did the 2 before those so it's back to a 5* rating from me. Me thinks its ready for final release seeing just how stable it's been. This is hands down the best browser and it's a testament to what happens when you spend more time working on a product rather than promoting it. |
| g4qber | Jul 3, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1622 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
please fix the spaces bug 1. go to opera:about 2. type "/", type space 3. press F3 x30 note that it stops at 16x. here is the bug report *** DSK-241255 - spaces |
| Blitzkrieg | May 28, 2002 | 6.03 | 5 out of 5 |
I have been using Opera since version 3. Version 6 has finally made the default browser throne. I know some sites Opera doesn't render properly and that's usually because the site wasn't coded to W3C specs, and that's not Opera's fault. You know Microsoft's site will only be properly viewable in it's own browser. While there are many features of Opera I am fond of. One of the smallest features happens to be a personal favorite, and that's the mouse gestures. Hold the right mouse button and click the left - Browser Back. Hold the left mouse button and click right - Browser Forward. Hold the right mouse button and move the cursor down and up on the page - Duplicate page. Knowing these and going to IE, you'll find yourself trying the gestures on IE and be like, "Crap, I'm in IE!" more than "Crap, I'm in Opera!". If you do go to a trouble or popup crazy site, remember "F12" will instantly bring up some quick options. Knowing the features of Opera really makes Opera shine like no other browser!! |
| Sephiroth... | Jun 15, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Firefox is for dummies that follow tons of advertisement and other publicities garbage, Opera rules! |
| miyuki09 | Jun 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
i love Opera, i have tried FF3 some days ago but it cant beat Opera, the most safe and secure browse, and this new theme roks :) |
| stisev | Jun 15, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
I agree this release was a little rushed, but overall still the best (yes, even better than FF3 final!) Everyone, ****make sure you start with a FRESH install of Opera***. Most of the problems I had involved my previous settings! Make sure you keep your opera.adr, wand file, be weary of the keyboard settings. |
| Chocobito | Jun 15, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
FF 3 Final sucks! Opera in all version allways beat all other browser in Security and Velocity, this version (that still need some work) is all way better that Firefox |
| Blaxima | Jun 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
internetworld and improvelence, do you guys get kick backs? All you 2 do is spam. get a life and a clue Then new theme looks good imo EDIT TO THE BS ABOVE ME http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/ when will people stop talking sh8 to put down a piece of software because for their creepy affections towards another |
| MikeTechno | Jun 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
I think many of the reviewers here have forgotten one very important fact about Opera: it is the most secure browser on the market. Time and time again Opera comes up as the leader when tested against all others in this area. As a matter of fact, I can't recall the last time it lost one of those tests. This is an exceptional browser, easily one of the best out there. Nearly every bit as good as Avant, Maxthon, Firefox or Safari. Each one could still learn a little bit from the others of course but that will always be the case. Great browser all the way around though and continuously getting better. Love the new GUI on it by the way. Well done. |
| Diam0nd | Jun 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Brian49: Are you telling us FF eats up much less? I've see screenshots of FF3 eating up 1GB+ on a Vista system. That's one. Two, I don't get whyeverybody is crying over memory when a lot of people nowadays got 2-4GBs of memory. And as for the Opera itself, well, best browser has just gotten even better. |
| skapig | Jun 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Great so far. There are UI features/enhancements spread all over. For example, a new download dialog. Overall, it definitely feels zippier. Only minor issues. The new Developer Tools feature is handy to have around, but is pretty slugglish. I'm not a fan of the new skin/default layout. Fortunately this version makes it even easier to find other skins. A browser is embedded in the Appearance dialog that allows you to quickly find and apply skins displayed in the same format as on the Opera site. Of course they're too proud of their new skin to actually promote this. Also, I'm not keen on having a taskbar icon forced on me for no good reason (unless I've overlooked where it may be disabled). |
| Daddy_Spank | Jun 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
I have to say - the rendering is better than it has ever been before... and so is the speed. I noticed a very high increase in speed upgrading from 9.27, and I have also not come across a webpage that doesnt display correctly and that isnt webdevelopers fault for not following standards - which is what Opera does. I am no fanboy but I am very happy with this release. And if you think its becoming a thing in the past, just try to sync all your browser preferences, like bookmarks and speed dial with a mobile device. No other browser offers that kind of multiplatform support. |
| outofspace | Jun 17, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Using for some time, no problem at all. It's do what it should be! |
| lucianct | Jun 12, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10063 Final | 5 out of 5 |
you can change the theme if you don't like it... i don't like either the safari skin! and worst, it can't be changed! i like opera for its security and speed. it cannot be compared with safari or internet explorer... though, don't like the widgets. i prefer the firefox add-ons... but opera has all i need and i don't use the widgets |
| Sephiroth... | Oct 9, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1830 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@bittermann: get a life :D Anyway, as always a good working beta. |
| SmokingCat | Oct 9, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1830 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@bittermann: FF and Chrome stable and bug free? Nice joke ;) Final quality beta, the final Unite build is close. |
| ZenWarrior | Oct 9, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1830 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Unstable? Hardly. Opera's beta versions have crashed on me but one time over the past few months--and on Vista, no less. I've seen it be nothing but rock stable. |
| ailef | Jul 12, 2008 | 9.52 Build 10089 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
this browser is really great, people should test it cause not IE or FF are able to offer the same possibilities. i really don't understand why this great piece of software is not used that much, IE is needed to update windows but except that opera got so many features that it must be tested by all. forget FF. |
| bigmama | Jul 13, 2008 | 9.52 Build 10089 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
a more stable release (sorry beta) than the previous release |
| Diam0nd | Jul 11, 2008 | 9.52 Build 10089 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
analphatester: you really are an anal-phatester. I love how people rate a program 2 for saving a picture bug. lol Best browser ever! |
| Daddy_Spank | Jul 11, 2008 | 9.52 Build 10089 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@Anal: did you file a bug report? And did you try this on more than one computer? I could NOT reproduce this bug on my computer. (Vista 32bit) That aside, this new beta has many stability fixes and other improvements, pretty impressive considering Opera 9.50 final was released less than two weeks ago... |
| munga42 | Nov 12, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Its Opera, the best, the fastest, and the coolest browser ever made. |
| maxstep | Nov 10, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Amazing! Just plain amazing!.. |
| tannenwheel | Nov 10, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
rofl, operas toolbars are slimmer than firefox' plus they can be even slimmer with a different skin, pluss they can be removed and replaced with hotkeys - if u are cool enough. 5 points for your review --- this build is the first usable (imho) since a few builds (since 8585). it's cool that overall most opera builds are useable. |
| eblade | Nov 14, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
eProfitsMaster: google for: google page rank opera and you will find that. I don't know about the Alexa thing. I have been using Opera as my primary browser since v6, and I highly doubt I will find any other product that I like as much as Opera. |
| Deedstyger | Nov 10, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Fixed bug where Gzipped pages was not decoded when loaded from cache fine to see that damned bug fixed.. it really made me angry. i was expecting a new build before this date though. |
| Eldar | Nov 16, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Is Alexa spyware? You may keep it, I don't want those here. Opera is one of the safest browsers around, so it doesn't need this junk. :-/ |
| kyleabaker | Nov 13, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Very good and stable build. Best browser available. Also great for web developers since the browser follows web standards. Fast, secure, advanced! |
| Diam0nd | Nov 11, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
The best. To say the least. |
| drfung | Nov 11, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Essentially it is the best browser out there for anyone who wants to take the time to learn it. This is the biggest problem for a lot of people. The built-in features (error & java consoles, ctrl-j feature, editable search.ini, mouse gestures etc etc) are very advanced, considering the size of the package. It's fast, and most important today, it's secure. Check out scunia.com if you doubt that. Fully customizable interface. Any browser is better than IE (used v7 yet? -much laughter). I see a lot of end users who browse with Opera for the first time get intimidated by it - "it's not like the other one". Lame excuse. Check it out, it's worth the time. |
| wat0114 | Nov 11, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Sorry to say Mozilla, but you guys are lagging behind. I don't really care about all the extra features. It's the speed, security and vastly improved page rendering (though still a few breaks here and there) that impress me. Great browser! |
| jspratjr | Nov 10, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8649 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
Agree with Deedstyger - I'm surprised they even posted the build with the gzipped pages problem...was equally pissed. Fixed with this build, so back, in my opinion, to the best browser on the market for me. |
| Sephiroth... | Sep 22, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@Phat Esther: According that tests Opera win in all nontroppo test and several others meanwhile FF only win in very few test. Anyway, a stupid troll comment like your its necessary or Opera will have a 5.0 ranking in betanews ;) In rendering Opera is the KING!! |
| zapatero | Sep 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I use FF 3.5, but I am becoming dissatisfied with it, especially because it is slow. I tried out this version of Opera and I have really liked it. It is fast and it looks nice. |
| DaComboMan | Sep 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@bitterman, Cheer up! Opera browser isn't going away anytime soon. It has inspired Mozilla in the creation of Firefox and will likely help the others to get better too! |
| ciohaeso | Sep 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Amazingly good web browser, bitterman its a troll!! |
| Chocobito | Sep 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Another Final quality Beta, thanks Opera. bittermann is very inefficient fanboy troll who don't have a real life, I put a 1 star to its :D |
| SmokingCat | Sep 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is faster, and secure since it doesn't use active x, but the opera team isn't concentrating on security. I have been using opera for a long time, but I wish that the opera team paid a little more attention to the security aspect. However, don't misunderstand me, this is in my opinion the best browser out there. The bad part about firefox is that they bloat the browser with a bunch of plugins that I don't need or use on the intial download of the browser; plus firefox uses basically the same engine as IE, which means active x. In opera I have the choice to add active x for particular websites if needed; otherwise, it will by default not use active x. |
| draelail | Sep 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
For me Opera has been the best for several years now. I started using version 8 and have never given it up since. What's more, this Beta is really blazing fast! |
| uestudae | Sep 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1792 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
simply the best, the fastest, the coolest, the sexiest browser, period, it beats all other browsers in customizition, preferences, security, functions, options, name it, it's got it all and it does it well, and it's the lightest on memory on top of that, you can't go wrong with Opera |
| wolseleydude | Sep 7, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 9 | 5 out of 5 |
Again, the best browser in the world outdoes itself! I have been using Opera since 2000. I have absolutely no complaints. Besides, if some sites don't recognize Opera, one can always mask the browser as IE 6.0 |
| jhan | Sep 7, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 9 | 5 out of 5 |
After i've done my configuration and changed skin it worked perfect and look really neat to... I'll never go back to IE again thats one thing for sure, I kiss the IE bugs goodbye... Great work Opera Team! |
| tech_8356 | Sep 8, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 9 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is the way to go! With mouse guestures, great skins, unmatched speed, excellent customizability, easy to manage favorites, and a whole lot more, Opera is the best you can get. Even if there is the occasional hiccup in rendering, check out SlimBrowser (an IE addon). As much as most of us can't stand IE, there's the rare time when you need it, so you might as well make it look better. |
| Error404 | Sep 7, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 9 | 5 out of 5 |
The almighty just keeps getting better :) |
| ruemere | Jul 22, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1651 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
"Sorry Gezley. Your method is not what I want. When I click on that big "O" on my Launch Bar, I don't want to see "Start-up dialog", all I want to see are three tabs with three separate web pages. I don't want to see the "Speed Dial" and then have to click again to go to the web page I want to start at. I don't want to see one of the three pages and then have to go to "Speed Dial" to open the others. I want all three tabs available immediately, and I want each tabbed page to be the most recent variation of the page. I do not want to have to refresh a page from "History". Opera is good, but it won't do what I want it to do, when virtually all the other browsers will. Opera needs to add this option." There are several ways to achieve this. The simplest way: 1. Open desired pages in tabs, close all other pages. 2. From menu bar: File / Sessions / Save this session, make sure the option "Show these tabs..." is checked. 3. From menu bar: Tools / Preferences / Start-up, Choose "Continue saved sessions". Regarding caching the pages and mass refresh: 1. Click "Windows" button on left-hand panel (press "+" and add "Windows" if you cannot find it). 2. Select open Windows / Tabs (with Ctrl, s*** or just click any and press Ctrl+A). 3. Press F5 or press Ctrl+R. Disclaimer: I am using customized shortcut set, so your shortcuts may vary. Just right-click and choose appropriate action if the shortcuts fail to work for you. Regards, Ruemere |
| Zero-Point | Jul 21, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1651 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
coover: As gezley stated, save your pages in a session, but with slight difference. When saving to a session, make sure "Show these tabs and windows every time i start Opera" is enabled. Note this will also change your Startup preference to "Continue saved sessions". I am not sure if IE/Firefox/etc. has it, but sessions also save all open windows at that time (if you want), not just the one window of tabs you save. When you save a session with windows and have it shown on start, you can then have all windows with tabs opened automatically. Edit: You may also want to look here for an alternative to sessions: http://operawiki.info/OperaTips#T00 One of the great things about Opera for power users is that there is not much you can't do, but requires editing configuration files...but not as complex as writing your own modifications in Firefox from source. It may seem simple, but users have the ability to control a lot. You can also have a look here to see how to launch multiple web pages with one button/menu item: http://my.opera.com/comm...ums/topic.dml?id=279623 |
| gezley | Jul 21, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1651 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Regarding multiple home pages: Opera goes one better. Save multiple sports-related pages to one session; multiple news related tabs to another; and multiple tech related tabs to a third. Set Opera to show the Start-up dialog when it starts and hey presto, multiple sessions. Take your pick. Something Opera has had for as long as I can remember. Now tell me: how long was it before Mozilla and MS figured this out? Or perhaps they haven't figured it out yet; it's been so long since I used their memory-hogging bloated garbage I just don't know. |
| Drewz | Jul 21, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1651 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I had used Opera since version 6.16 and I kinda got off the boat after 7.23, Im now back on the boat. Opera 10 is very good. |
| Balderstrom | Jul 22, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1651 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Coover: "Let me know when Opera finally has a multiple home page feature. IE has it. Firefox has it. Safari has it. But the Opera developers think "Speed Dial" or saving web pages is enough. NO NO NO. Until Opera has the multiple home page feature, it will not be used much on my computer." Mmmm it already has this? It's called: Speed Dial, which lets you effectively have as many "HomePages" as you like. Speed Dial is displayed every time you open a NewTab/Page, and by default lets you save 9 sites for quick-launching - either by clicking or CTRL+1 thru CTRL+9. If you like, it can even be configured to more than 9 for those with wide screen monitors. I've used Firefox recently, I was suprised how much it looks like IE. Possibly one of the reasons it's gaining marketshare. Personally I'm glad Opera, at least, differentiates itself enough not to clone IE's appearance just to appease IE users. One of the first things I do when installing a new Opera version is change the default skin: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/ You can also do Skin Download/Selections right from the Opera interface: Tools/Appearance/Skins [*] Find more skins. My favorite (one of the dark skins): Emil_RSD_Black : http://my.opera.com/comm...ize/skins/info/?id=2528 @ruemere: File/ Sessions -> Save this session Session Name: MyStartup [x] Show these tabs and windows every time I start Opera. Close Opera, Restart, No Startup "Window" is displayed. You are presented with your saved tabs. So, it pretty much does exactly what you want. |
| Zero-Point | Aug 14, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1708 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Beta 3 == Beta 107000000000? I must have missed my arithmetic classes. Sure, there are *weekly* builds, but not nightly builds like Firefox, so I'm not sure I understand your reasoning and argument. I'm also not sure how it can be stated "...[Opera] rates low compared to all the others except IE..." with the current BN score being 4.2. I use Opera almost exclusively, but use Firefox when something does not work in Opera (and IE if not work in Firefox) and I do not see the majority say Firefox is crap. I have to agree with dapixn that " this browser works. Its email client is 5*** if you imap it with gmail and you dont have to find plugins here and ther to do basic things." If anything that I see, your "fanboys" of Firefox are those saying "FF rulez and others is junk". I dislike wearing my FF s*** or hat in public because people who think they're cool praise me with the dribble but are ignorant and not open-minded. Not bashing Firefox, but "oh, a new Firefox version is out......uggh, none of my add-ons work because they are not compatible with this version. doh!" The BN single browser "speed test" does show v10 as being "...the slowest browser on earth (except IE)". Can you honestly say that you can notice the difference? I can't recall from the article, but did that test include all the FF add-ons that will be required to support the same feature set in Opera? I value speed, but I value productivity, efficiency, ease of use, configurability, and innovation more (to an extent). Yes, if something takes 100x longer to do and is noticeable, I may sacrifice those criteria. This build is working great so far; I have not had a single issue that I can recall since I began running the v10 releases. |
| cltx99 | Aug 15, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1708 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Anyone who gives this browser a 1 star rating are probably the same people who are against universal health-care, but I don't mind I live in Sweden and have great health-care, thank you very much. Getting to the point, the Opera browser is excellent. It's my default browser on all of my three home computers. It simply gets better all of the time. |
| Balderstrom | Aug 16, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1708 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@PhatEster, I don't know what you are talking about... If you mean links on a page, you open the Panel, click on "Links" select the links you want, and rightClick open or save. If you mean links in your bookmarks, then the only options are saving selected as either HTML or an .ADR file. @Vimes, Honestly I don't care that Opera has a torrent option built-in, I use uTorrent. The fact that it is still only 5-6MB and has a plethora of options like mail, and torrent and messaging is nothing short of impressive. I don't recall the exact size, but the last time I installed FireFox it's program folder was over 14MB and you had to download it's Mail program separately. As far as Opera vs Chrome, try a different skin, and right click on any toolbar in Opera, "Customize" and start deleting stuff you don't want. For example, I have my StatusBar at the bottom with: [Clock] [New][New][Fixed Spacer][Bookmarks? ] [Panels][x][»][Status Display][Zoom%] [x] == close panel [»] == open displayed panel in a new Tab. My addressbar is also at the bottom: [DisplayViewMenu][Back][Refresh][Wand][AddressBar][Go][DisplayViewMenu][FitPageToScreen] All the other menu's are removed. My View Menu - when it is displayed, is also at the bottom, and appears above the AddressBar, it contains: [Home][Back][Forward][Rewind][FastForward][Top10][Bookmarks][IdentifyAs][x enable plugins][Author|User Mode][Show Images] I have not seen any other browser that allows as much customization as Opera does. Period. You can even *easily* customize what the Menu's you want to display, or ANY of the context menu's are. By editing Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\menu\standard_menu (1).ini |
| Chocobito | Aug 14, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1708 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The best browser that only fan-boys and freaking trolls will put only one star. Opera always deserve 5 stars. |
| TomasF | Aug 14, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1708 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
"There is a reason it is in a perpetual beta cycle..." So much for your qualifications. It's in a perpetual beta cycle because they're for *different versions*. New releases with new features, features which are usually trend setting for the browser market. And if this wasn't enough to discredit you to anyone who even knows what a browser is (which most web users don't), the claims about IE will fix that. Thanks for visiting, don't let the door hit you on the way out! |
| BelgianWaffle | Aug 17, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1708 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Coming along great....still a few bugs, and I would love to have silent browsing, just like IE, but this feels ready for release soon! |
| dapxin | Aug 14, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1708 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Those who know dont talk. Those who talk dont know a thing... If you dont like the 'crap', why stop by to write a review ? You are the fanboy. Let the ones who use this, continue to recommend it to the few folks, who are prepared to try things, and see for themselves. The software works, to its own huge and very independent merit. Not too many opera users can be bored enough to write FF reviews for example. goodluck. ------------- To anyone with an open mind, and looking for web efficiency - this browser works. Its email client is 5*** if you imap it with gmail and you dont have to find plugins here and ther to do basic things. If you try it and don't find it efficient, feel free to ditch it. But dont until you have actually tried it. goodluck. |
| Tri-Gy | Feb 23, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1047 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera rulez..!!! The Mouse gestures are great those make browsing simple and fast..... It's going to be the best browser..... |
| guti | Feb 23, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1047 | 5 out of 5 |
It hangs on my system. Maybe it is caused by the Nvidia Nview 2.0 beta. Anyway I give it a 5, 6.01 is great! |
| ditoa | Feb 23, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1047 | 5 out of 5 |
very nice program, gets better and better with every release, i just wish it would support layers like IE does, i know it is mostly the webmasters fault but i can understand why it is used so much it is a very nice way to make a menu system, i hope Opera supports better CSS, dHTML and layers in the future, however on my system IE5.5 loads pages faster than Opera as i am on a 1Mbit Cable Connection. |
| RAT | Feb 23, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1047 | 5 out of 5 |
This Browser is simply the best. I'm wondering how IE and his stupid interface (compared to operas great functional, MDI- and user-friendly Interface) could come that far. There's a cool community around Opera, check my.opera.com for skins, sidebars and other stuff. Yes, some of you people saying they need IE sometimes, you are right, some pages are constructed with such strange kinds of java-script oder DHTML... But that's the web-designers fault, not operas! ;-) |
| manni | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
It works well, even the image rendering is now fixed! |
| Ward574 | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Note how many of those claiming Opera has significant rendering problems never actually post any links. Really helpful. If they did, they'd get fixed. Until then, ignore 'em. |
| statm1 | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Yes thanks for mentioning that 8314 is beta 2. I wont need to download it again then. |
| BogdanSHA | May 25, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
At least he voted 5 stars :) |
| netean | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
not noticed any significant difference in beta 2 to beta 1.. Widgets are still rather pointless (IMO). NOt experienced ANY rendering problems at all with beta 1 or beta2. (still doesn't work with google calendar though) Beta 2, like beta 1 has never crashed on me, and worked well. I've got 10 tabs open, (several with flash in them) and memory used is 2192Mb. Fantastic, esp compared to firefox (which I also love, but it loves my RAM wayyy too much) |
| nant` | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Now the Opera are after the beta release, more fixes will be continued to be added to Opera. There is still time for changes. Lets all look forward for the next weekly, it is rumored to have a lot of fixes. For users of the weeklies, build 8414 was released as beta2. |
| Dennis87 | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
This browser rocks=D I hope it's not long time again before they release final version |
| alanpalmer | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Thanks for that, nant`! I was just about to download the file. I've already got build 8414 as a weekly, so I won't bother. |
| baki_princ | May 23, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
I don`t know what`s is the diffrence compare to the beta 1. In "about" it also says:Version 9.00 Beta Build 8414 just like previous version. Anyway I adore Opera although beta 9 keep crashing and crashing and crashing....There is a lot steel to work on this browser (like download menager) so keep up guys good work. Opera is the best! |
| Sammo | May 25, 2006 | 9.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
This version is quite stable and robust. The only gripe I have is during the installation process. Even when choosing the upgrade option which keeps your existing settings, this beta did not keep them, causing me to completely reconstruct my personal settings, toolbars, buttons, etc. |
| Dreimanis | Dec 6, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
although i'm a firefox user myself. and while i think that all of the big 3 are great browsers, i still think that opera is better. a bit, but better. |
| maxstep | Dec 5, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@yokozuna +1000 @Sven123456789 ***If your into tab nation you probably find this the best for surfing the net, but for the rest of the world, this is just another louzy browsing experience.*** I aplogize, but have you checked with doctor recently??? Where the hell did you find a non-tabbed browser?? Even ie is tabbed now. Get a life! Get past win 3.11 an ie 5.0... ***Plus the email client stinks also.*** Well, it works absolutely perfectly for me for some years in a row, and yeah, definetly huge, bulky, uncomfortable outlook smth is waaay better. |
| Carlos V | Dec 7, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I've been using Opera for years. I've tried IE, Netscape, Firefox and others... but Opera is much more useful to me. It's not a perfect program but is nearly perfect. Firefox is really good and potent but when you come to choose, what you finally use is always a matter of personal taste :) |
| RWW | Dec 6, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera has always been far advanced and it takes a little gray matter upstairs to use it. Some people will never get it and that's ok...some will never even try, just run down something they are incapable of understanding. Sad for them. |
| Mastertech | Dec 8, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Keeps getting better with each version and it still is the fastest, most secure and most compliant (Acids2) than any other browser for Windows. |
| hurzx | Dec 5, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@sven. The problem is well known. It is located between your chair and your screen. ;-))) |
| malirene | Dec 6, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
"firefox - memory hog, slow as molasses startup times ie7- worst toolbar imaginable ie6- lacks features opera- too many to list" Before you post again you better see your doctor. Also I would like to know how many days you have been using Opera. Install, play for 10-15 minutes and uninstall… “too many to list” is nice review :o) Maybe you think this way: - too many ways to customize toolbar, interface etc. - too many things to better security - too many free memory left when you using Opera - too many ours you need to figure all Opera features - too many people like and enjoy this browser - too many features for your brain - too many of too many This is all in all the best browser ever. More you use Opera more you like it. I have been playing with almost all browsers on PC and MAC platforms and no1 is even close to Opera. The list of features is really big but if you don’t need it all of them just don’t use it. Simplicity, speed, security and small recourse usage is main Opera features. If you still looking for good browser, go with Opera for one week and then make decision. |
| Diam0nd | Dec 6, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Changelog: Fixes to the Fraud Protection feature. Fixes to Opera freezing with Flash 9 on Linux. Fixed smooth scrolling on UNIX! w00t!!1! Flash now works on FreeBSD! OMG!!!11!1! As listed on http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ What can I say? I love retarded people. Always have. But especially here. I love how you FireFox fans come here, talk sh1t about Opera and rate it one. I mean, how ridiculous can this be?! And I bet you people think you are being objective by saying Opera is crap and raing it one. Still, I love you all lol Opera > * Free. Fast. Secure. Customizable. Constantly updated. |
| yokozuna | Dec 5, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@Sven123456789 ***If your into tab nation you probably find this the best for surfing the net, but for the rest of the world, this is just another louzy browsing experience. Answer: Right! Therefore the rest of browsers follow the Opera example of tabbed interface. ***Plus the email client stinks also. Answer: Yeah! FF & IE have better e-mail clients. No client is the best client. |
| wat0114 | Dec 5, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Not an Opera fanboy either. It's just I feel it is the best browser available. It is fast, it is secure, it looks good and it is quite feature-rich. |
| jspratjr | Dec 5, 2006 | 9.10 Build 8670 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
No problems....Still the best browser around (of course that is one persons opinion). |
| acetate | Aug 13, 2002 | 6.05 | 5 out of 5 |
Very fast (faster than MSIE & Netscape) and very stable. Most pages i surf work with Opera. |
| betasun | Aug 14, 2002 | 6.05 | 5 out of 5 |
Ofcourse not faster than Mozila,but faster than IE,NetCaptor and many more.its usefriend ,has many useful faetures and unique in grafic interface .finally I LIKE IT. |
| alanpalmer | Aug 23, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10408 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Wow! A jump to 9.6 and of 300 in the build numbers! See http://my.opera.com/desk.../22/first-9-60-snapshot for new features. |
| mickey89as | Aug 24, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10408 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
It's good to see progress in this usefull application. |
| Daddy_Spank | Aug 23, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10408 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
So you rate it a 2 star without actually trying it. 9.52 works much better than 9.27 in my opinion and if you are afraid of bugs stick with it and dont try the new beta 9.6 version although im using it right now and its working great so far. |
| outofspace | Aug 24, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10408 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Something for people who want something more from browser! |
| Illissius | Oct 3, 2003 | 7.21 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
> But somehow it has problems with loading pages with a lot of pics on my pc. > I always need to reload the page a couple of times before all the pics show up. > Therefore no 5 * You haven't by any chance set preferences -> network -> max connections to a large number, have you? That chokes the server, which is why you don't get all the images. If you haven't, then try setting it to a lower number anyways. For the review: Opera is quite simply the best browser ever. Period. It's - Smaller - Faster - More feature-filled than anything else out there. (Note: all of the above three are understatements.) *At the same time*. Seriously, that should not even be possible. There are a grand total of two "problems" with it: it could be even better; and it isn't free. About the ad-ware - Opera has just about the least best ad solution ever. It uses Google's text ads, which means it's just about impossible for them to be in any way intrusive or disruptive, -and- they are context-sensitive, meaning they display ads relating to whatever you're currently browsing. Most people actually found them _useful_. I mean, seriously: *ads that are actually useful*. That, also, should not be possible. But, apparently, it is. There are not enough stars possible to convey how excellent this is. |
| seelengarten | Oct 3, 2003 | 7.21 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Works fine. Now added "tile windows verticaly" the function I put on the wishlist. Great! |
| The DataRat | Oct 3, 2003 | 7.21 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
"Mozilla is still miles ahead"___________Modzilla is a mess ! Forget it. Quite frankly, Netscape v. 4.7x is ~still~ the best e-mail client. For web browsing, Opera leaves Mozilla eating dust !_________The DataRat |
| alanpalmer | Jun 3, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1551 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
As fast and stable as any of the alpha builds, as might be expected. |
| BelgianWaffle | Jun 3, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1551 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Loving this new look and feel. Turbo mode is awesome, spell-check, auto-update, and the much improved rendering speed is much welcome :D Its rock solid, no crashes. I am using it as a final, not a beta. |
| Diam0nd | Jun 3, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1551 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
This is wild!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkaZtpKRcZA OPERA > * !!!!!!!!! |
| shallot | Jun 3, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1551 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Been using the 10.x builds right from the alpha days and they have been awesome...they even recover automatically from a crash. With Opera Sync setup, even if you lose your profile due to a crash, it's as easy as syncing again to get back all your data.... Opera & IE8....their parents might fight each other ugly in courts...but these two browsers take care of all my needs... |
| Drewz | Oct 3, 2003 | 7.21 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Ive been a registered user since v6, and v7 looks better but its not as good as v6. More sites are accessible with v7 than were with v6, but it crashes more and is slower than v6, plus the wand aint so stalwart as it was. So as far as Opera goes, support and all, they get a 5, and it pains me but v7 gets a 3, so all things considered I give this a 4. |
| The DataRat | Oct 3, 2003 | 7.21 Preview 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Forget about Java. It's totally crash prone, and a wet dream of Computer Communists ! In Opera, press F12 and disable Java. Your Internet experience will only improve. 90% of Web crashes and browser lock-up's are the result of trying to run Java. Opera is the premier Web Browser. But nothing can make Java run right on a real computer. _________The DataRat |
| Sephiroth... | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Yes, Opera 10 its out, all other browser, especially Firefox will come to copy more feature to Opera ;) |
| BadIronTree | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Best version ever geting better and better i bought Opera went was in version 6 now is free and still rule :) |
| bigmama | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
The best browser. The fastest, you can customize it easily, it's secure, nice interface, usability and security (top levels). Also it has everything you want. (browser, download manager, email, chat, torrent client, community, speed dial, trash can, ad filter, widgets in one light application and installer. No lack of features like Chrome. No high memory usage and leaks like Firefox. No problems with security like IE. No problems with page rendering like Safari. |
| Chocobito | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent, at last Opera 10 Final and its front-pages in a lot of page for all its features and performance. Good for Opera. |
| BelgianWaffle | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Great stuff. Makes tethering speed feels like regular internet with the Turbo feature!!! |
| SmokingCat | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Incredible good browser, its way better that FF, Chrome, Safari, and IE, five stars. |
| draelail | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Opera 10 its brilliant, I will forget Firefox now. Excellent work Opera software |
| blabbery | Sep 2, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
@cltx99 "I don't like the way it takes over bit torrents, email and images." Um, what? It doesn't take over anything. In fact, it specifically asks you whether you want to use Opera or a different client when you click an email or torrent link. Images? It doesn't set itself as the default image viewer. |
| Diam0nd | Sep 2, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
cltx99: Ever heard of opera:config ? |
| anonymouscowturd | Sep 1, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 Final | 5 out of 5 |
No change from RC2. I have found a couple of issues though. If you try to create a google maps search it fails miserably. Not sure if this is to do with how the map search is submitted or if it's an issue with Opera. Also noticed Opera will take an age to open or close IF synchronization is enabled and the Opera site is somehow unreachable (as it was today when every Opera user and his dog went to get a piece of the 10.0 action). |
| RawGutts | May 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
a 3 for having to install beta's? You tool; go crawl back in a hole. |
| stihler | May 22, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
My opera flash problem went away when I installed Macromedia Flash Player for Windows (Firefox & Opera) 9.0.0.296 Beta. |
| nant` | May 18, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Changelog for build #8414: - Fixed display on betanews.com. - Cache is not shared between widgets and pages opened from widgets. - Fixed Bittorrent downloads on Unix. - Fixed crash that could occur when exiting pages with Flash 8. - Fixed IPv6 on FreeBSD. |
| alanpalmer | May 18, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Nice to see Betanews back to normal! Flash (8,0,24) works fine for me, including on Youtube. |
| Lug | May 18, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Ukrainian and Russian language files for Opera 9.0 Build 8414 Beta you can take here http://www.ukrlocal.info/ |
| teseglet | May 18, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I have been an avid Firefox user for 1 1/2 years however I have an older computer and found Firefox slower than touted. Most recently my Firefox version 1.5 would not launch but I could get 1.0.X to launch as well as their Beta 2.0. I can't figure it out. These problems led me to try Opera 9 beta 2. Wow am I impressed. It is much quicker and seems to have a much more refined feel than FF. I can't say enough good things about it. |
| Qlib | May 20, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
simply exellent in every way.. smaller than firefox.. faster than firefox.. more stable than firefox.. better than firefox..etc.... IE .. dont even go there!.. Opera 9 has also passed some of the hardest tests in rendering html code correctly.. if authors cant wrote html.. tough! As far as its visual appearance.. I totally agree that the default view of Opera is.. butt ugly.. thats the beauty of skins and the EXTREMENESS as to wich opera's gui can be skinned and altered.. it doesnt get better than this! |
| crowbar82 | May 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
gbp007 And thats why you give it 3pts? Dont use BETA then |
| yokozuna | May 21, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
An interesting brief comparison is here: http://reviews.cnet.com/...2217-1.html?tag=fea_txt IE7 b2 FF2a1 O9b1 Built-in tabs Yes Yes Yes Saved tabs Yes No Yes Tab mini preview No No Yes Side panel Yes Yes Yes Search history Yes Yes Yes Integrated RSS Yes Yes Yes Widgets No No Yes BitTorrent No No Yes Antiphishing Yes No No Page zoom Yes No Yes Of course everything out of the box. FF has extensions but Opera has M2 and more. |
| JaapB | May 20, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Perfect browser, very fast and relative small. The only problem is that google calender doesn't support Opera. But, that has something to do with Google and not with Opera. I tried that Jeep site that was mentioned by Sammo. I don't know what he is talking about, that site works beautifully. So Sammo, you have to change your rating. |
| debugged | May 21, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The problem that I had with Flash was cleared up by doing a clean install with a new profile. I would recommend that others who have had these Flash problems do the same. Opera 9 gets a 5 star rating from me. |
| kl00 | May 19, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Although I'm a big fan of most open-source products,I've totally jumped ship from Firefox to Opera. I am SICK of the crashes, memory issues etc with Firefox, not to mention its bloated "cousin", Thunderbird. With Opera I have everything I need in one excellently-coded package. Which brings me to some of the comments made by improvelence below: >Slow in comparison to Firefox, IE6 and 7, Mozilla, Seamonkey...ugly. Hmmm...well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess; I've always thought Opera looks pretty elegant, comparatively. And among the browsers I've tried (and I've tried quite a few), only Maxthon on Windows is faster. And you're saying that SeaMonkey, of all things, is prettier? Puhleeez. >This browser looks like it came off of Windows 95. The buttons are goofy and the tabs are way too big. Again, subjective...although doing a visual measurement, Opera's tabs look, if not smaller, at least no bigger than those of Firefox in its default theme. > Major problems rendering websites... And a lot of web authors have major problems writing valid code. In my experience, if a page carries a DTD and passes validation, Opera will render it beautifully. >low user base. Hmmm...the last I checked, IE was still number one in terms of user base, and so I guess that might mean that the size of the user base has really no relation to the quality of the browser. And anyway, Firefox's user base is still dwarfed by that of IE, so I guess Fx's userbase might be described as "low" as well. > Waste of time. I've become convinced that Firefox 1.5.x has become a waste of time, a major step back from Fx 1.0. As for Flash, I turn that crap off anyway. It's a blight ;) |
| nms04 | May 18, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8414 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
siryak this is still a beta, so it might happen that there r some bugs or memory leaks ... cant't wait for beta2 and the final release! |
| Tygas | Aug 26, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
I'm addicted to opera nightly builds, proud do be best browser user. Just I miss opensource pluggins |
| Sephiroth... | Aug 26, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
The best just keeps getting better! |
| laptopy.net | Aug 25, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
WOW! The new skin is absolutely beautiful. I never thought i'd say it. Previous Opera skins always looked terrible in my opinion. Not so with this one. Definitely the best looking out of all the browers straight out of the box. Happy to see the Unity buttons easily available too. Knocks spots off Firefox 3.5 (good but overrated imho). And oh it starts up in a split second unlike FF! |
| stranded | Aug 25, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
The 10 RC is amazingly stable, has a great new icon and improved skin. It's not perfect but it's getting close... |
| Betachecker | Aug 28, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser. Where is the Unite ? |
| Chocobito | Aug 25, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
At last the RC, I look good for now, the final its close. |
| crowbar82 | Aug 25, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
I'm impressed! |
| Daddy_Spank | Aug 25, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1733 RC | 5 out of 5 |
works great! Final release is supposed to be Sept 1st. |
| jethro5 | Oct 26, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Don't know how they do it, being such a small company, but they make the fastest and most feature-filled browser, and that is using less memory than IE or Firefox. Opera FTW! |
| guti | Oct 24, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
If anyone interested, classic installer is here: http://ftp.opera.com/pub...9.50b_Classic_Setup.exe |
| Lands | Oct 25, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Stable (for a beta), incredible fast, low on system resources. My default browser. |
| bigmama | Oct 25, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fastest Browser [these versions are just for testing] [read known issues @ developers page] [to ses what is not working] |
| vinczej | Oct 25, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
After build 9603 I was unbelieving. It got a lot of new bugs. But the developers repaired these bugs. The new (planned beta) build is correct again. I love it! :) |
| RWW | Oct 24, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I thought the problems with widgets not opening from the top menu might be fixed. Anyone else have this problem? |
| securedemail | Oct 25, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
My default browser. Has more features than any other browser in the world. Wintings: Roboform is a rip-off of Opera's Wand. So there u go. |
| alanpalmer | Oct 26, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Yay! The first beta! The best browser around. |
| Perezoso | Oct 30, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Changelog: http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/w950b1.html |
| hurzx | Oct 24, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@jspratr, @KRome, @guti, Oh boys, OMG I can't believe it. How did you do to get it so fast, there's still nothing on Desktop Team ! Well done, guys. |
| godofthunder | Oct 25, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Keep up the tinkering! Throw us the beta builds and we'll keep testing! This browser is awesome. |
| darkripper | Oct 25, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I can't wait. Cmon Opera team release the final version :-) |
| Darken | Oct 24, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@RWW: Yeap, widget broken with this two latest builds. Edit: Read this comment > http://my.opera.com/desk...tidx=350#comment3871859 |
| Diam0nd | Oct 25, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
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| willywonkah | Oct 30, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I've been waiting for a long time to synchronize my bookmarks on my phone and PC! By the way, Opera does not just suddenly lose your bookmarks so if they are missing you probably did something wrong. Oh, and Opera can't support Roboform, it's up to Roboform to support Opera. It's not like Opera can rewrite Roboform to support it! |
| jspratjr | Oct 24, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9613 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
No problems with this release - great browser! |
| Dolfhin | Jul 27, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
I've had some huge problems with firefox leading to a lot of data los and frustration and I'll stick with Opera. Opera is the fastest, safest most feature rich browser I know of and more important it dind't delete my freaking bookmarks! Firefox is a timebomb and something will go wrong and you will lose data. Stick with Opera until firefox is mature enough for serious stuff. |
| [deXter] | Jul 27, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
Well Opera team ISNT lazy as a matter of fact... Just see the plethora of features being integrated into Opera, WITHOUT slowing or bulking down the browser! On the other hand, Firefox makes no significant improvements with a release; besides I still get the Firefox / Deer Park 'consuming too much cpu' bug inspite of no-extensions and clean installations. As far as page rendering bugs are concerned, its present in ANY browser, even IE. They are due to poor webdesigning, not due to poor coding of the browser. As far as I personally am concerned, I havent come across a single such site that renders badly in Opera. But mention Firefox, and voila! Slashdot comes on top of the list.. But I still dont understand why we are Firefox-Opera bashing.. Instead we should come together and bash IE! |
| biggman15 | Jul 27, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
darthbeads, You said it yourself... "Frankly, FF with a ton of extnsions loads faster and renders better for me." For you.... On My computer FF is Bulky and slow.. Opera runs smoother in Everyway... I haven't had any problems with Opera... |
| B3AN | Jul 27, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser by far. |
| Osama bin Laden | Jul 28, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
Simply the best browser so far... |
| looto | Jul 28, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
Rules. Much faster than Firefox. |
| horsecharles | Jul 27, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
i have no rendering problems anywhere w/ Opera-- the fastest browser on the face of this earth. Contrast it w/ FF-- the slowest & buggiest browser on the face of this earth...i'm a bit weary of constantly having to tweak & debug FF up the kazoo...though i'll take it over IE any day. |
| a6 | Jul 28, 2005 | 8.02 | 5 out of 5 |
not the fastet browser on earth for me... (netcaptor is faster on my machine) but surely the best (because of configuration abilities). i miss only some few features, which are not important for most of the browsing time... firefox can not match up to this one... opera makes my browsing convenient. |
| pdail | Aug 1, 2008 | 9.52 Build 10100 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This has been, my main Browser, now about 3 weeks. It's far more stable than IE7, and works a heck of a lot faster! It is just amazing how good this browser is. And the Tabs, and Bookmarks,in the way you can, set them up, is just as easy as Moms apple Pie! And Opera, has there own community, that you can join, and talk to others, that are enjoying Opera to. Try it, I think you wont be sorry you did. |
| Diam0nd | Aug 1, 2008 | 9.52 Build 10100 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Works flawlessly, as always. |
| dejavu | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great Browser! Be careful Firefox!! |
| McCrap | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Better than the best! |
| guti | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
baki_princ, I supose you are refering to the Windows installers. In that case, get the Classic Installer (Wise), instead of the Installshield Windows MSI. |
| maxstep | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Incredible. With each build opera is getting better and better)). Latest betas are even bug-free for me. Perfect browser. I will never ever use anything for browsing. Internet means Opera for me. |
| BoNeLeSS | Mar 31, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I don't like to express myself in absolutes... but when this get out of beta will be the best browser ever... Fast as hell, almost perfect standards compliant, and working popup blocker and password fillers. I just love it |
| tannenwheel | Mar 31, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
make sure u pay close attention to the setup screen. you must choose the same option as you chose for previous installs. that would be either 'single user' or 'for all users'. just choose the same directory, then the right option is selected automatically. i tested this version and did not loose my settings. the installer which is linked here (executable) still provides the options i am referring to (they are hidden until you choose another directory form the previous). i have not tested the other msi installer. i dont say there is no bug in the installer. i just dont want people to be scared away. just make a backup of your directories. you should do that anyway. hm... well my option is 'NO individual profiles', maybe the bug concerns only those who choose indivduals ..... (wich is default) CHANGELOG Several memory leaks fixed; Display issues fixed - noticeable e.g. on gmail and vBulletin sites; Fixed bug with attachment button on gmail; Fixed bug with pages not loaded on restart; Fixed content blocker; Fixed Proxy On/Off toggle in Quick Preferences; Added setting for show widget handle in Preferences > General; Ongoing work on widget GUI; |
| sajjansinghania | Mar 31, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I think Internet Explorer Aol Explorer and all other small Browsers should stop developing own and start copying Opera. Never has such sweet experience before I started using Opera. Congrats to developers. Great efforts, immaculate expertise, uptodate technolodgy and right exxorts. |
| BogdanSHA | Apr 6, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Latest stable version - 8.54 -> http://www.opera.com/download/ Latest beta version - build 8348 |
| Eldar | Mar 31, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Had the same problem about the settings which were lost on install. :-/ Also didn't get the same screen as before to choose update, instead of new install. Let's remember it's a beta, so these things can happen. If you don't want the trouble, then don't use a beta, but instead wait for the official release. However just copied the previous settings over from My Documents and every setting/bookmark/note, theme, ... was back on restart. LOL Still my most preferred browser. :-) |
| AntiochMedia | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
A fantastic browser. I'm also experiencing certain concerns over rendering -- my sites look exactly the same on IE and Firefox, and I go to great lengths to make sure that my sites are 100% CSS and XHTML compliant, yet many of them will have Opera-related quirks. I'm not too sure about the Opera Widgets system either ... it seems rather odd to have a separate Widgets layer associated with Opera that do not actually benefit the browsing experience. Why not just have this as a separate entity? |
| yanike | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Better than before. Congrats Opera! |
| vifins | Apr 2, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This browser is just getting better and better! @marty & krgood: Check the paths in Help->About Opera The settings and bookmarks are probably not lost, but stored in a different location than before for some reason. It could be that you changed from multi-user to single-user, or selected a different place to install Opera. You might also want to try the Classic Installer which you can get from http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/ since there seems to be some issues with the new MSI installer. @bunghole: 2): I guess you mean the history dropdown? You can turn it off in opera:config. Search for 'Auto Dropdown' and deselect it. 3): In Tools->Preferences you can choose to delete cookies and empty cache on exit. You can also set number of addresses to remember to 0. |
| Yogurth | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@betasun It is easy to turn off, just click on curved arrow and deselect show widget button... Opera is really getting better and better, this release fixed several issues with rendering alignments on vBulletin for me. I can't crash it yet :) |
| Terumo | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
For meg er Opera den beste og leteste nettleser som fins. Den har alt man trenger, nedlasting, e-post og mye mere. Jeg kan på det varmeste anbefale den til alle. Men pass opp den er svært vanedannende. PS. Vi trenger noen Norske også her. We need som Norwegian review also. Terumo |
| hurzx | Apr 1, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I like Opera and would like it to be my only browser. However, because of rendering issues, I have to use another ( Seamonkey) which is quite impressive. |
| bggoth | Apr 5, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
1. Minimize to sys tray is presented as feature for a loong time now (Ctrl + H) 2. Use the CLASSIC installer , the other one is in testing... look for the classic one @ http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/ |
| shroom | Apr 2, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
You should not forget that you're using a beta software... So you should take all appropriate actions before using it. That's up to you if you've lost all your bookmarks :) |
| bunghole | Apr 2, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8333 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Thanks vifins, those did the trick! Much appreciated. I think I'll be using Opera a lot more now. |
| maxstep | Aug 8, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8807 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Remove widgets and IRC? Go get firefox.. - nothing is bundled. I love opera for being a true all-in-one internet utility. Unique example of being all-in-1 and not being bloatware. Keeps getting better and better! |
| anonymouscowturd | Aug 8, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8807 Final | 5 out of 5 |
No problems here. Made it USB portable in about 10 minutes. Runs completely without a flaw. Totally superior to FFX Things i wish they would get rid of (1) Widgets (2) IRC Things i wish they would add (1) Extensions as per FFX (but yes, i'm aware of security issues) (2) Page Preview like IE7 (tile is not the same!) (3) Jabber/multi protocol chat client like Miranda (4) Import/Export of Wand files as XML (so you can transfer to things like KeePass) Things i wish they would change (1) The default skin, it's bloody terrible. I'm using Marina which looks nice and clean, never mind the pink! |
| SamppaX | Aug 8, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8807 Final | 5 out of 5 |
Well, I have been jumping between opera & Firefox a lot. And much say that there isn't a actual winner. Both are amazing browsers. I'm currently using more Firefox but I really liked Opera and miss some of the features like Speed Dial™ for example. Somehow firefox is actually quicker than opera on my comp, actually kinda wondering why. I didn't even have widgets ( oh btw, Don't use widgets I think they aren't that good and can take some performance ) and I use some add blocking addons on firefox and still running great ( opera has also add blocking capabilities but take alot more time to tweak ). Final: " Try Both ( Opera & Firefox ) and choose best for your usage. You can't go wrong with your choice " =) oh and btw "maxstep". That's why firefox is so popular in most cases. =) for example I don't even use half of the features that are in opera. =) But I don't mind going one site and get one adblocking addon and that's it... so... well that's why I told my opinion/suggestion to try both. =) and "hap8192739", I would actually remove irc because I have another "Full featured" program for it. But yes, you are right some people love the All-In-One thingie. I just hate when they put all these things on browser. Think about it... Browser = websites. But if that feature takes little usage/performance then It isn't a problem. Soon We see browser with skype features and stuff... hehe. Pointless efford. ^^ And file size goes up to 40-50m. |
| stranded | Sep 12, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10427 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Getting better. Still has some issues. |
| ssb | Sep 12, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10427 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Simply great! |
| belthurgp | Sep 13, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10427 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Getting better with every release. This one is so fast !!... Good job Opera ! |
| SoftwareTester | Sep 12, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10427 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
great program , great feature, fast and reliable... have been use for many years. |
| Diam0nd | Sep 12, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10427 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Loooove the recently introduced RSS preview feature!!! Ahhh, FF? Pleeeease... |
| Daddy_Spank | Sep 12, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10427 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
analphatester: your english is so bad I cannot understand what you are talking about. Can you tell me clearly how to reproduce the bug that you keep on talking about? |
| outofspace | Sep 12, 2008 | 9.60 Build 10427 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
It is do what it should do |
| adamlau | Feb 28, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fast, lightweight and ultimately customizeable. Have been a user since 2002 and have rarely looked back (beyond the occasional use of tete Firefox Bon Echo builds when Opera fails to render a poorly authored site). |
| ModderXManiac | Mar 1, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The start bar has been replaced by a "dialer" bar. Anyway, without doubt, Opera is the most secure browser to date having a user group of several millions. Rendering problems are being fixed rapidly, but the real problem is that web developers don't create websites meeting W3C standards, in which case Opera would render it perfectly because it meets standards better than any other browser. Best tabs functionality, in fact, this was the browser that invented the idea of tabs. I've been a dedicated user since version 7, and this product always delivers. Don't use this beta because it's full of memory leaks out the ying yang. |
| inventao | Mar 1, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera the best browser, el mejor navegador. |
| keisan12 | Mar 9, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
best browser ever,and it really getting better and better! |
| Diam0nd | Feb 28, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser ever. The new Speed Dial is simply a HUGE breakthrough!!! TGB72, FireFox is nothing better. Consumes fairly the same amount of memory. #1 Opera #2 FireFox , if you ask me. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ Known issues: The static Linux packages are unfortunately corrupted. Overrides your search.ini file instead of merging them: Make a backup before installing. Thumbnails should not reload on every startup. "Reload every..." is missing from the context menu. Middle-click doesn't open pages in the background. Back button doesn't go back to Speed Dial. Several skin and display problems. Contains some hardcoded not translatable strings. The "What is Speed Dial" link doesn't go anywhere. Forgetting to put your partner's blog in SD1 can have dramatic consequences Changelog: Fixed several crashes when printing, sending mail, removing active web panel... Lots of minor fixes. Start bar is replaced by Speed Dial, Top-10 and Bookmark buttons can be found in the Appearance dialog and added to other toolbars. Canvas: Stopped drawing lines from origin (0, 0) when using path functions in accordance with changes in WHATWG canvas spec. Note to Widget developers: This may cause problems with your Widgets if you use Canvas. |
| yokozuna | Mar 2, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is the best, moreover, it is going to get better. If you want to see what you can expect from Opera 10 alpha follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqC1URVytk Hakon Wium Lie shows how the browser will support Ogg Theora. |
| arvind | Mar 11, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Currently using Opera and Firefox. I use Firefox only for the sites that don't open in Opera. Opera has got to be the most customizable and lean browser ever. Pages load in a flash.. has tons of options.. and is not bloated. Absolutely love the mouse gestures.. i know that's available in firefox as well thru extensions, but this thing just works! Give it a try... you may just get addicted. |
| zridling | Mar 11, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
10 THINGS THAT MAKE ME LOVE OPERA: ________________________________________________ (1) When you scroll one page at a time, it's actually scrolls ONE full page, instead of 3/4 like others; (2) You can customize fonts in every single element of the web page; (3) Fully customizable keyboard shortcuts! (4) Number keys 1 & 2 allow you to quickly navigate backward and forward through your tabs (on top of other key combinations); (5) It remembers its last bookmarked folder location — what a concept, duh! (6) Keyboard shortcuts for increasing/decreasing the size of text; (7) It has close-left and close-right buttons for tabs; (8) Notes feature in the Panel section is extremely useful; (9) The ability to save sessions; (10) A true multi-platform browser, which for me means I get to seamlessly use it with Ubuntu. |
| gkajaia | Mar 8, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Simply the best browser! Using it for ages. It becomes better and better. |
| the artist | Feb 28, 2007 | 9.20 Build 8732 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
for every neglectant user complaining: take into account that when a program says BETA, it's flawed, because it's STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT. PD: there are HUGE changes for Opera 10. Page RENDERING is only one of the points, just be patient. |
| tannenwheel | Mar 29, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@Edu _SS opera has no option to minimize to tray (as such), but shows a trayicon with informational purpose -when- the mailing feature is used, and this trayicon includes those minimize commands. according to the changelog nothing has changed about the traybehavior http://my.opera.com/desk...am/blog/show.dml/200577 these are not beta releases but weekly builds for hardcore fans who take risks. don't wine about bugs (not here, that is). CHANGELOG Fixed timestamp bug in Mail. Fixed copy bug where space was inserted before special.characters. Fixed bug where links from widgets opened in new window not tab. Remember widgets independent of startup option. Reloading open message when IMAP is checking. Fixed bug where widget handler stole focus from opera when starting. Script dialogs now have the option to stop scripts running on the current page, in order to prevent further dialogs from appearing. Mac specific: Startup crasher fixed. CTRL+any key crash fixed. Unix specific: Widget handle can now be disabled. Fixed plug-ins when libXft was not preloaded. |
| coover | Mar 29, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Something is wrong with the download link. The download I get is 74.1 K in size, obviously not Opera. |
| nant` | Mar 29, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Edit: I was beat to it! siryak, to enable the usage of newer WMP in Opera, add a "opera.exe" key in the registry in the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> SOFTWARE >> Microsoft >> MediaPlayer >> ShimInclusionList Edu_SS, Check your keyboard setup by going to Preferences >> Advanced >> Shortcuts >> Keyboard setup >> Edit and search for "hide opera", change your shortcut (if you so please) and viola. Changelog for this "mid-weekly" release: - Fixed timestamp bug in Mail. - Fixed copy bug where space was inserted before special.characters. - Fixed bug where links from widgets opened in new window not tab. - Remember widgets independent of startup option. - Reloading open message when IMAP is checking. - Fixed bug where widget handler stole focus from opera when starting. - Script dialogs now have the option to stop scripts running on the current page, in order to prevent further dialogs from appearing. Mac specific: - Startup crasher fixed. - CTRL+any key crash fixed. Unix specific: - Widget handle can now be disabled. - Fixed plug-ins when libXft was not preloaded. We'll probably have another build this friday. :D ^ Nothing official, of course, just what I saw on the forums... |
| horsecharles | Mar 29, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Can we PLEASE change the home page listed here for this version to: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/ Gaining added functionalities at some classically inaccessible sites-- it feels like eventually all such obstacles will be overcome w/ final 9 release... |
| bggoth | Mar 29, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
"We'll probably have another build this friday. :D" Yay! Can't wait! ^^ |
| Mark Gillespie | Mar 30, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This build is the best weekly of Opera 9 so far, I have no stability issues whatsoever, some of the previous weeklies had quirks... |
| yokozuna | Mar 29, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Forza Opera! |
| FataL | Mar 29, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8326 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@Edu_SS: You always can hide Opera to system tray by pressing [Ctrl]+[H]. Also when Opera hides in tray it eats even lower memory... |
| dacaveman | Sep 12, 2003 | 7.20 Beta 10 | 5 out of 5 |
this program is great and all but u guys shud check out mozillaFirebird. its free and its got more plug-ins than opera. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/ |
| Steve Austin | Jan 18, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9745 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera rocks. The Adblocker is just as configurable as any firefox add-on, and does not add to bloat.. Right click on a page, click Block Content, change the filter to suit, if you want to include wildcards, you can.. |
| guti | Jan 19, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9745 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Build 9745 is IMHO, the stabler build of 9.50 released after the official beta. |
| munga42 | Jan 21, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9745 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Thats because Opera sticks to 1 window instead of spamming a window for every download. I consider that a good thing.. |
| tannenwheel | Jan 18, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9745 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
i use firefox and opera simultaneously my #1 tipp of the day for opera customization: delete search.ini and add a directory named "seach.ini" to the installation folder. so you get rid of the default seach engines (ebay amazon.com) and installation wont be able to add them again. just keep your custom seach.ini file in profile directory. here is a list of pros and cons that are on top in my mind: opera advantages: + faster & more convenient/intuitive in most routine tasks like window management; adding/changing searchengines. type F2 for adressbar and search bar (keywords) + history + bookmarks seach in one box. this dropdown thing will stay unmached by any FF extention, performance wise. + links panel is better than FF linky extention in FEW situations (should have support for regular expressions and save a history). + customizing toolbars & co is verry easy. everyone can learn to edit ini files or the skins. + better sidebar+bookmarks management (much more responsive and accessible) + vertical tabs on the right side. more toolbar flexibility in generall. + no matter how much useless features they add (like mail/chat/torrent) opera becomes more performant, not more bloated. supperior programming style, like utorrent. +better zooming +better toggling of javascript/plugins/cookies etc with custom buttons. one button can do many things at once. you dont have to code pages of java script to get some realy smart buttons. opera disadvantages -there will allways be one or two bugs that are actually really bugging, if you stay with latest builds. -no rectangular selection, no html copy. --- firefox advantages + more reliable on some fancy heavy sites + cool menu features (dragndrop of bookmakrs into a prescise menu position, right click, deleting ...) + linky extention better than opera's links panel in most situations. + toogle toolbar visibility based on mouse hoover + some very unique and usefull addons, no doubt. + better management of userstyles (stylish extention) firefox disadvantages: - XUL is nuts. no average user can or wants to code his own XUL extentions, not even for the simple tasks like those you could achieve in opera. - most skins can't hide XUL's clumsiness. - XUL is f**king slow. it's the azureus of browsers. - allot of extention features should be in it by default. |
| poundsmack | Jan 18, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9745 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@ fuhayer so you don't like opera and think firefox is a step ahead becasue when you open a new tab it takes you to that tab and you do not like that, is that correct? perhaps you have not seen the options directly below "open in new tab" that says "open in background tab." so 5 starts for opera, as it is fast and very easy to use and has all the features i need. anyone who can read a drop down menue will love this browser! :) |
| Diam0nd | Jan 18, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9745 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
FireFox looks java to me and I don't like java apps on platforms where more advanced languages are available. Opera is WAY faster, WAY more configurable (i really suggest you actually COMPARE the two, u WILL see the difference). Opera > * Can't live without it. Opera - my religion! |
| waxwing | Feb 12, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1285 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Would never believe it was an alpha version except they tell you it is. Works extremly well, no bugs for me, no memory leaks. Just very fast. |
| belthurgp | Feb 12, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1285 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
@improvelence Yeah, Google Chrome is the biggest adware you can find. Have fun while Google takes away your privacy...enjoy Opera was the first to bring tabs, mouse gestures, standards compliance and many more try using it for some time before commenting on it... |
| alanpalmer | Feb 12, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1285 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Runs as well as ever, no problems at all so far. They might as well have been full releases for all the problems I've come across with these alpha releases, and this build is no exception |
| BelgianWaffle | Mar 4, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1285 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
I find this alpha build stable as any regular release. Impressive. The new rendering engine is the fastest i've tried so far. |
| MadEx | Apr 26, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1090 | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent browser! Some things don't display 100% perfectly opposed to IE, but that's fine. This browser is very configurable, and will take a loads off your taskbar while heavily surfing. You can easily stop those annoying popups from appearing, and closing unwanted windows is a snap. Overall this is a great browser, and a great alternative to IE/Netscape. Excellent browser, download now and at least give it a shot I promise you will be in love! -=[Mad]=- |
| Eelfinn | Apr 26, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1090 | 5 out of 5 |
Easy. Just easy. Easy to set up. Easy to use. Easy-going. And the 1090 sure does seem to have improved stability over the previous betas. One slightly arcane point, but I'll make it nonetheless: Ever tried to make a browser run on a 486-66 laptop with 16 MByte RAM running Windows NT? Well, with Opera it's all in a day's work... Eelfinn |
| ahjefri | Apr 28, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1090 | 5 out of 5 |
OPera is very good browser.. this beta.. does not render some pages right in win2000.. or may be with me.. ver 601 does it much better, Shape up Opera.. Mozzila.. is comming strong.. I will give it 5 for the light and speed... |
| dr_goodbytes | Apr 3, 2003 | 7.10 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Great Browser, much better than IE, Netscape or dare i say it, mozilla. I'd recommend it to anyone. |
| Alex T. | Apr 3, 2003 | 7.10 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Awesome! This is supposed to be the big version that fixes all the little quirks that are prevented Opera 7 from dominating. The download link worked fine for me. |
| BlackB1rd | Apr 3, 2003 | 7.10 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Wow, it's even faster than 7.03! This remains my default browser... Amazing that they can improve the speed more and more every release, well done Opera developers! |
| MadEx2k2 | Apr 3, 2003 | 7.10 Beta 1 | 5 out of 5 |
Love Opera, bu the download link to 7.10 b1 asks for login and pass... Anyone have a mirror? |
| nugro | Nov 26, 2009 | 10.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Betanews update the screenshot please! it's 2 generation old already. The always reliable browser, speed? Can't find any noticable different between this and FF, if you do time to update that dial-up connection. |
| anomoly | Nov 24, 2009 | 10.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Extensions weaken a browser's security, not to mention the fact that they use more resources & waist your time when you 'need' one. Screw 'em. I tried unite and was not duly impressed (could've been my slow pc??) so I just delete that folder. |
| guti | Jun 7, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great! Two releases same day. This 10051 build improves skin colors and contrast, making it even more attractive and easier to read. |
| RWW | Jun 6, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Skins? Not way up on my priority list. Only one I would like to see is a Buuf skin for Opera. Irrelevant? It is going the other way, my friend. |
| The IceMan | Jun 7, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
why dont they change the screenshot |
| godofthunder | Jun 7, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is now one of the highest ranking browsers on the new ACID3 test. Keep it up guys. JUST ONE CONCERN: I have been getting complaints that the OPERA browser is streaming information from the users local IP to a remote location "Opera Software ASA -213.236.208.60." This could be just for beta monitoring purposes. If not we might have to place this remote IP on a black list data pool. If anyone can shed some light on this, please do. |
| villiansv | Jun 8, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@godofthunder This may be due to the Fraud Protection (Opera's anti-phishing implementation). Check Prefs-Advanced-Security (enable/disable it) to see if that's the case. |
| Darken | Jun 9, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@cengizkhan: Gmail 2.0 work fine without problem > https://mail.google.com/...ui=2&nocheckbrowser @eaves: Euh, all "features" included with Opera 9.27 are supported with Kestrel. |
| Diam0nd | Jun 7, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Love it. New skin is grean, improves usability a lot. Known issues: Dragonfly does not work when JavaScript is disabled. Improved contrast between active and inactive tabs in the tab bar Higher contrast for the text on inactive tabs to increase readability, especially on laptops Brighter background in the panels A tiny bit more color: We added the Home button as default by popular demand We tuned the color intensity of the color themes (Tools: Appearance: Color scheme) to be more usable with both this and other skins. Try it out again! Improved visibility of the scrollbars Buttons no longer grow wider when you press them Nicer background for security status on https pages Changelog Fixed the panel selector dropdown Fixed all search related bugs in the previous snapshot Changed default Speed dial search engine from Yahoo to Ask Made it possible to set a custom title for the Developer Tools (Dragonfly) Window using in the tool top level document Fixed a plugin crash |
| analphatester | Jun 7, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera for Windows 9.50 Build 10051 Beta beta download instmisa.exe why ? all other versin till today installed perfect |
| outofspace | Jun 7, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
wow this build is really good:) |
| pjb | Jun 6, 2008 | 9.50 Build 10051 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Fast, Stable and nice. I also like the new skin. |
| Sephiroth... | Aug 29, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 RC2 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Almost the Final, and its better and better, when Final go out will be the best browser of all time. |
| Zero-Point | Aug 29, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 RC2 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Phat Esther: I actually always thought the nick was "An Alpha Tester", but I don't see an "h" if you just deleted "anal". If that was really the case, I commend you in that respect. Alpha Tester works with your crying review of all software it seems. Anyways, after all this time, I decided to try to decipher your gibberish and MAY have found the issue you keep bringing up. What I have done and what you should have done, is properly submit a bug report to Opera or on the forum. Yes, you have posted to the forum, but those posts were done in the same respect that you show here--thus disregarded. If you want to test what I have found, try downloading multiple links while you have the "transfers" or "downloads" manager open when doing so. If the manager is not opened, I see most links fail. Give it a try and please try to post a comprehensible message of the results. |
| netean | Aug 29, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 RC2 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
although I've downloaded this for both Windows and Linux, this review is Linux specific as I didn't really notice much in the windows version. In linux, everything looks superb now. Email, dialog boxes and even web pages look great, I'm guessing they've done something with font rendering or something but it looks superb (I'm using the GCC4 QT4 .deb package if anyone is interested) it's very stable so far, and noticeably quicker than any other Opera 10 I've used (either windows or linux) - still not on par with Google Chrome which is significantly faster in both win & linux but it seems faster than Firefox. Although it eats ram in Windows (and is very slow to let go of it when you close the app), in Linux it's happily sitting here with 10 tabs open using 168MB. pretty good IMO and fantastic compared to Firefox and Opera in Windows. Every page I visit seems to render and work properly, no issues to report, major or minor so far. I'm very happy with it. |
| Chocobito | Aug 29, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 RC2 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Very good, and in this RC had a very fast start, way more fast that FF. Waiting for the Final. |
| alanpalmer | Aug 28, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 RC2 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Getting closer: RC now! It certainly seems even faster than usual. I think Unite is only in the nightly builds at present. It looks like they're not ready to release it yet. :( |
| anonymouscowturd | Aug 29, 2009 | 10.00 Build 1750 RC2 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Crikey! awesome review from phat esther, nothing like a review chock full of details /s I have this working perfectly now. I've only come across one or two sites that don't render properly but i'll put my bottom dollar on them not adhering to standards.. All my bank accounts can be accessed just fine. So no problems there. I even have this running portably off a USB stick. My only issue is that Unite services can be a bit temperamental sometimes but i thinks this is more to do with the service as opposed to the browser. No other browser comes close. |
| Zootopia3000 | May 15, 2002 | 6.02 | 5 out of 5 |
My only gripe with Opera is the inability to scroll the (Hotlist)favorites window with the mouse wheel. Hate having to use the scrollbar. This 6.02 final version is faster than 6.01(IMHO), and faster is better. |
| Zootopia3000 | May 15, 2002 | 6.02 | 5 out of 5 |
I believe the person is talking about the index.dat file. |
| ditoa | May 15, 2002 | 6.02 | 5 out of 5 |
RedBadger - can you please show me where you got this information from? I have seen LOADS of things like this but all from sources that have no proof! |
| TGB72 | Aug 7, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1691 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Pretty fast and full of features browser. Opera 10 certainly works better and faster than IE 6,7 & 8, and in my experience it beats FF in resource consumption. Now what I cannot understand is why some people gives Opera the lowest rate without reviewing it and instead they just exalt FF features, this is the wrong place to remark the goods of FF, go to FF thread/review for that, here is for judge Opera for its features and functionality. Do you think that it deserves 1 star?, well then say why, make a good description of your experience with Opera and present valid points for such low rate. I mean the fact that some people finds FF better than Opera doesn't mean that Opera is a bad browser. Appeal to that lonely neuron an try to be objective people. |
| anonymouscowturd | Aug 7, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1691 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I know I'm not supposed to, but I've been using the betas as my main browser for about a month now with absolutely no problems. The last beta actually had a Unite that worked! Simply awesome. 10 is simply way better than 9.64 which itself is a brilliant browser. I've had a couple of website (really obscure ones) break but 99.9% it is simply brilliant. I simply can't understand how people like Bittermann can rate this a 1. Not even IE would get a 1 so how can they rightfully give this a 1? Opera has lead the way since day one and knocks spots off Firefox. The number of innovations coped by Ffx from Opera is not even funny and even then most of them are just crappy add-ons that don't get updated when a new (buggier/more resource hungry) version of Ffx get's released. I regularly open 80-90 tabs in Opera following links in sites like Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, Dzone etc. something that is absolutely impossible with Ffx. |
| Alexander-GG | Aug 7, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1691 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
RE: bittermann It became really annoying. I'm not an Opera fanboy. I use Firefox as well. I can suggest you one thing - do not waste the BetaNews space. Leave it for more competent persons. |
| jonspencerbx | May 12, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is really excelent now! It costs money (if you want to get rid of the ad), but it is certainly better then firefox. It's fast, it does NOT need extensions (it has everything you will need build in) It has an excelent e-mail client, the interface is awesome! I could go on for ages, but i won't. Gotta play with my new browser ;) |
| chimpypimpy | May 12, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
The is the next generation web browser. It's the worlds' fastest browser. It's standards compliant. Tabs and gestures are built-in and work better than any wannabe browser or add-on. It is completely configurable. It also comes with an excellent e-mail client, IRC, and download manager. At under 4mb, it's much better than the BLOATED (over 6mb) and BUGGY Firerat. |
| yokozuna | May 13, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
Put simply the best Internet browser ever! Simple, fast, bug-free. Nothing compares to Opera! |
| bigmama | Mar 23, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Always opera is 100 steps forward. FirFox is good but for n00bs. You must have at least 10 extentions to reach opera's functionality. (These weekly releases are only for testing. Please report bugs and crashes to make our browser even better) |
| DaveGB | Mar 23, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent as usual, this weeks weekly is much more stable that last week. Seems they are close to a 9.20 release. As for Javascript speed, check out javascript benchmarks, Opera wipes the floor with everything including IE7 and FF when it comes to javascript speed. For anyone considering these, these are ALPHA quality, not even beta or release candidate, expect bugs... |
| muka3d | Mar 23, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Perfect browser. This is the browser that Mozilla has been trying to clone for quite sometime now with Firefox. Each release of Firefox comes with some "new features," all of which have been around in Opera for years. This is the only browser that should exist, and it is, for very good reason, the engine used in Dreamweaver, mobile phones, Nintendo Wii & DS, and the list goes on. If you don't use it already, there couldn't be a better time to switch over. This is browsing paradise. |
| Lurifax | Mar 24, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
robmanic44, seems to me you don't get the idea behind releasing theese weeklies (no, it's not betas, as many have stated over and over again). The purpose is TESTING! The users are supposed to report back the problems, so that Opera can continue developing their browser and fix things. Get that? |
| Zankur | Mar 23, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I fail to understand why stupid people are redicuiling this perfect and most featrure-rich browser on earth.... all the browsers available today copy features from opera........ firefox,maxthon will take another 2yrs to in-corporate all features which are present in opera..... |
| Darken | Mar 23, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
+1 with Zankur. Excellent build. From Desktop Team: "The Weekly Builds are snapshots, they are not as thoroughly tested as a Technology Preview or a Public Beta. You should only use these builds if you are not afraid of losing data (e-mail, bookmarks, anything) or crashing your computer." - http://my.opera.com/desk...am/blog/show.dml/142990 |
| Diam0nd | Mar 23, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Love it. Can't live without it! Changelog Fixed the crasher when right clicking certain places Fixed title for redirected pages in speed dial Improved plugin detection on Solaris Known issue This week only lasted one day, sorry about that http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ |
| zridling | Mar 23, 2007 | Build 8758 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
b0mmel, why not download JAVA directly and specify it in (CTRL+F12) Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript options? Just tell it where to go and what options you want. |
| ctk | Feb 4, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9770 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
i find opera very easy to use and easily customizable when you can figure it out. it has nearly all the features that you need extensions for in firefox standard and is web standards compliant. if something is broken it's not opera's fault, its the web designer's fault for catering to one specific broken browser. i have been using opera since opera 6 and haven't looked back since. i have tried firefox and really, i'm not impressed with it. its a good alternative browser but has none of the functionality out of the box like opera has. what upsets me more is that opera is trying to cater to the firefox user by changing names and shortcuts so they are universal. |
| Diam0nd | Feb 1, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9770 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
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| outofspace | Feb 2, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9770 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
flexy amazing |
| pjb | Feb 2, 2008 | 9.50 Build 9770 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Works really well, nice and fast. Not really had any issues with any sites not rendering with this browser recently. Perhaps web developers are using correct web standards at last! |
| jonspencerbx | May 12, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is really excelent now! It costs money (if you want to get rid of the ad), but it is certainly better then firefox. It's fast, it does NOT need extensions (it has everything you will need build in) It has an excelent e-mail client, the interface is awesome! I could go on for ages, but i won't. Gotta play with my new browser ;) |
| robodesign | May 13, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
Hello! Opera might be just a little bit less stable than Firefox, but it is still very good. Opera is not bloated, is not slow (it is fast!) and it's very good. Same i can say about Firefox: fast, stable and not bloated. Opera interface is better than Firefox, also it has a lot more features than Firefox (sorry Mozilla users, but it's true) - even if Opera is smaller than Firefox. This does not mean i do not like both! Both are very, very good. |
| chimpypimpy | May 12, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
The is the next generation web browser. It's the worlds' fastest browser. It's standards compliant. Tabs and gestures are built-in and work better than any wannabe browser or add-on. It is completely configurable. It also comes with an excellent e-mail client, IRC, and download manager. At under 4mb, it's much better than the BLOATED (over 6mb) and BUGGY Firerat. |
| Perezoso | May 12, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
Everything else is second rate. |
| darkuni | May 12, 2004 | 7.50 | 5 out of 5 |
The best Opera ever, and I've been using it forever. The only thing missing is ad blocking (and I've tried to fix that with OperaAdFilter, my new tool at http://www.monroeworld.com/operafilter - my way of giving back). The IRC chat implementation (its not ICQ anymore for those that worry about that) is very good, and I regularly use it. The panels are better all around. A very solid, great release by Team Opera. Thank you! |
| maxstep | Oct 17, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9600 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Don't evaluate these alphas! as even a beta-quality product. For 9.24 I give 6/5. |
| RWW | Oct 17, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9600 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Opera developers really listen to you. Is just another part of the Opera experience! |
| alanpalmer | Oct 17, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9600 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Yay! Only a couple of days after the last build they've released another fixing (inter alia) the problems with bookmarks I mentioned yesterday. |
| hurzx | Oct 17, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9600 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Is BetaNews becoming AlphaNews ? As said below, a new stable version, 9.24, has just been released today, which is the one to use for production. 9.5 alphas are still at very early stages and buggy, lacking major basic features. This has to be fully understand before any try. Kestrel is really fast anyway. |
| darkripper | Oct 17, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9600 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is the best browser New kerstel engine rocks However all these are weeklys Are just for testing Lets see the next week which will be a beta |
| JoshuaML | May 11, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1101 | 5 out of 5 |
This is perhaps the BEST web browser I have ever used. As pointed out in the below review, IE is in fact loaded almost half way into memory when you start the OS. So as he said, comparing IE to Opera is not totally a fair trial. Of course IE will load faster if its already half loaded to begin with. As for Opera, I love it, the MDI interface is great. Not having to worry about a site that opens 200 popups cluttering up your taskbar is nice too. Only one thing that they need to work on, the plugin capabilities. I have a few that I would like to use but cant just yet, but I am willing to wait. I am still evaluating this and if they improve a few more features I am planning to purchase it. In my honest opinion, a browser doesnt get better than this. Give it a shot :) |
| maad deeb | May 11, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1101 | 5 out of 5 |
first before you judge Opera or others..don't forget that IE is partaily loaded into normal windows run..(because of the shared part betwwen windows and IE..) other web-browsers are loaded fully when you run it. either than that nothing is in memory..so if you want to compare web-browsers just test it on linux or mac and see the diffrence.. or remove IE from windows (which will increase performance about 10%).. do i need IE partaily loaded if i use the system for autocad or photoshop.. i need more space...thats why i never regret removing IE from my system.. I like opera because it is compact. it can be like other web-browsers with the cost of larger size..if you don't like it go to mozilla..it is a faster-netscape-clone.. Opera improves slowly becuase it is maintenance releases..(that why it is sub-numbering x.xx not v7.0 or v8.0).and if you have bugs just post it the beta forum.. it will be fixed in future rleases.. well, opera for my needs is more than enogh..(not 100% but better than others..) my second one is mozilla which is going rock.. but it is large to opera and small to netscape or IE ..(again IE can make smaller install becuase most of the shared file..which are not updated.."OLD"..is already on your system..oooh) finally don't play with fire |
| RedBadger | May 11, 2002 | 6.02 Beta Build 1101 | 5 out of 5 |
This is a very nice browser, even with the ad displayed at the top of the screen... which I hardly even notice. I used to be a die-hard IE6 and Microsoft supporter. But am no longer, after seeing the light. Anyone who knows about all the hidden spyware Microsoft has hidden into IE6, would switch to Opera in a heartbeat. And yes I didn't believe it till I read about it, and saw for myself. For one thing Microsoft hides in a locked system hidden file, every web site you have ever visited since installing IE6... even setting IE to delete the list, it doesn't delete them in the hidden file. I would like Microsoft to please explain why this hidden file exists, and why it stores everything. (you can use a "washer" type program to get rid of it, but I no longer trust anything made by Microsoft). I now see why so many people hate Microsoft. Perhaps one day Linux will rise above Windows for game support... we can only hope. (and yes I used to be a strong anti-linux person, but no more). |
| cltx99 | May 14, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1497 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
A very good browser, particularly, when you consider it's at the alpha stage of development. |
| stranded | May 14, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1497 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Opera for Windows 10.0 Build 1497 Alpha This one is really stable, it auto-updates from the last build without any problems. All I need right now is more spell check dictionaries added. |
| Chocobito | May 23, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1497 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Simply the best! Really stable and fast. |
| nant` | Jun 12, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8482 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Huh? That is expected behaviour... Right-click the link and choose either Open or Open in a background tab. Makes perfect sense IMO. 5/5 as always. |
| alanpalmer | Jun 13, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8482 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Good. They've gone back to the "Opera Beta" default installation path. (See my message of a couple of days ago.) |
| nightwolf | Aug 9, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
8807 had widget issues i think. 8808 is on their blog. http://my.opera.com/desk.../yet-another-9-23-build |
| cltx99 | Aug 7, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I haven't used opera for ages, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I've been using Firefox for quite some time, but this version of Opera has replaced it as my main browser. Opera has come a long way. |
| Alnag | Aug 6, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great as always. But I am looking forward to new features of Opera 9.5 (code name Kestrel). |
| lgjivic | Aug 9, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
why was build 8807 removed? :roll |
| PaceyPimps | Aug 6, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Luv it its still the best and most features. Wish list. 1. For google toolbar to work like IE7 or Firefox where you can change tab without changing to another google sidebar. And to add the add provider feature. 2. Spell check on eveything including address bar sidebar, everything on the browser like Grand Paradiso Alfa 6 all the time, ect.. 3. Vista 64bit version. 4. Self install of flash as a plugin like IE deos or Alternative built in Flash Almost perfect program |
| Blaxima | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I am really getting sick of FF fanboys coming here and crying about rendering issues when FF has them too. Then they have the nerve to complain about speeed?!?!?! Are f'n kidding me?!?!?! If you actually took the time to 1)test the speeds yourself or 2)Look at independent tests, they prove quite clearly that Opera is much faster than FF all while using way less memory. Safe, fast, lightweight and inventive all sum up this browser that just keeps getting better |
| adamlau | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
And just what type of false-positive test is this? |
| FoxHound | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I've been using Opera for almost 4 years and I must admit I'm completely pleased with it. It works almost flawlessly, and every version brings greater improvements. There is an option of multiple homepages, at least I consider that to be the Speed Dial, and even much more creative and innovative. 6 out of 5. |
| MinuteMaid | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@coover Look into sessions more. It does exactly this, there is a session manager dialog when starting Opera, if you prefer to work this way. You can save any set of tabs as a session, or open up the last used session. |
| hurzx | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I've used Opera for more than 5y. Very good browser for speed and security. Very stable. However, it cannot display some sites which is annoying. Because of that I use another browser, K-Meleon, which is even faster but has not so many features. @ coover. Oh guy, you made me laugh so much ! It's so good. What you seem to be looking for has been there for years in Opear. It is called session. See a tutorial. |
| b0mmel | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Great browser which hardly ever let me down. Ergonomically and speedwise superior to any other browser on the market. Nevertheless I agree with the other reviewers that the Opera programmers should put M2 and the IRC client to sleep. Those old horses did their duties. This thunderthing from Mozilla doesn't get developed further either. With all the good webmail services the benefit of desktop mail clients for private users isn't what it used to be. |
| hell0 | Aug 4, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser there is. No complaints at all about it. 9.5 is also looking to be quite impressive, Cant wait. |
| anonymouscowturd | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
coover, The functionality is there already. Create a folder for the bookmarks that you wish to open as "home pages", Then from the bookmarks menu, go back to that folder and at the top you will see an option "open all folder item". This will open all the links you put into that folder. Done. Change log anyone? |
| Xssshell | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Advantages: - very fast load times - very secure + antiphising - best rendering engine on the market - ntlm support - 9.25 gonna support full CSS3, know you can be yealous Disadvantages: - some bad coded websites don't work in Opera - some old javascripts exclude Opera, due to browser sniffing sorry I can't find any other bad things I'm honest and tell you the truth: Opera is the only browser that passes the ACID2 test, even Firefox 3 Alpha doesn't pass it. Oh, for the IE fans: "You still don't pass, sorry guys.." Opera was commercial in the past and it was revolutionairy, it didn't had the bugs other browser had. But it other weird bugs that were annoying. However they learned from the past and made the most secure and fastest browser in the world. There are very very rare moments when I encounter problems while developing websites with Opera, much less than Firefox and yes not comparable with any IE. But I'm pretty sure you'll not see any rendering errors anytime while developing websites in Opera. As one reviewer before me I just can acknowledge what my betanews collegues said: "I am very pleased by the improvements made recently, and I cant wait to get my hands on the 9.5 betas..." |
| some guy | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I like opera fast load and render but I wish it had addblock plus, like firefox has, I read their fourms and I know their is a way to do it, but, I wish it was built in. |
| GeekK | Aug 6, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This build (weekly btw, no beta) fixes some crashers found by stress-testing the javascript engine using Mozilla's jsfunfuzz tool. See: http://my.opera.com/desk.../03/fun-with-the-fuzzer |
| ljepava | Aug 3, 2007 | 9.23 Build 8805 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
at this moment in time, opera is best browser. period. only problem i had with opera is bad support with download managers but when i discovered oget extension my biggest complaint was gone :) oget homepage: http://lexi.ucoz.ru/ |
| mjm01010101 | Jun 30, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1615 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Firefox *partial* convert here. Opera *is* faster for my pages. It does use less memory. Ramping up to get it to act how I want it is still a learning curve. - I can't seem to control the toolbars to the extent I can with Firefox. -The help system is pretty bad, I had to look offsite to find what I needed for several functions. -I do miss some firefox plugins like Greasemonkey scripts. Right now I'd give Opera a 91 and Firefox 3.5 a 93 out of 100 score. I will keep Opera on and try and use it more day to day. I see no reason why people *have* to love one browser and *hate* another. |
| Chocobito | Jun 30, 2009 | 10.0 Build 1615 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@mjm01010101 Opera already has support for Userscript. This build is very stable so far, good work. |
| Sephiroth... | Aug 25, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1729 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Best browser ever, and most stable beta browser ever. |
| Zero-Point | Aug 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1729 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Holy Smokes! Phat Esther and her incomprehensible rage regarding multiple link, file, or whatever-save she talks about. These comments looked remarkably similar another's: analphatester. I have to say Phat Esther == analphatester. What is the reasoning for another account? It has been questioned and discussed previously just wtf analphatester was referring to. I like how Blaxima put it "Another release and another review (and I use that term loosely) from bitterman and Phat Esther." With more recent development releases, and focusing on Unite more, I think they are coming close to the final, just wanting Unite to be polished before. |
| cltx99 | Aug 22, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1729 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
All in all, it's simply the best browser out there and I've tried them all. |
| gezley | Aug 23, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1729 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Just downloaded the beta to try the new 10 version for the first time - well, what more can I say! The native skin is vastly improved; the option to position the Tab bar left or right very welcome, the option to have up to 25 pages on the Speed Dial fantastic. Start-up speed and browsing speed are what you would expect of Opera. A brilliant, brilliant browser, without rival in appearance, performance, ease of use, security, and native feature set. Right-click context menus chock-full of extras; the ability to create your own search boxes and put them on your Personal bar; duplicate tabs, and many many extras, nearly all of which Opera implemented years ago. The only browser I find a joy to use, and all without the need for "plug-ins". I can only surmise that those regulars who come here to attack Opera have some ulterior motive for doing so. I honestly can't imagine a single good reason for launching such vituperative attacks over and over again on this browser. I first bought Opera in 2004, when you had to pay for the full version (without ads), and I would gladly do the same today if they charged for it. It's quite simply that good. People who are wiling to explore its riches will find this out themselves, and should not be put off by the irrational criticism of those who come here on a daily basis just to attack Opera. |
| Chocobito | Aug 23, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1729 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Opera its in a really good state right now, really stable, and very fast. |
| Blaxima | Aug 21, 2009 | 10.10 Build 1729 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Thought I would just clear the air before trolls rear their heads. There have been just about 2 releases a week lately and that is because one has the Unite service and the other doesn't. This one is the Unite release |
| cap.ahab | Oct 12, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
i find its a bit more of a hassle than firefox. but it's a wonderful browser regardless. |
| Donzy | Oct 12, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Opera always on the forefront of browser development - these are Alpha releases, so treat them as such - final will be awesome !!! A note to "sturgess" - don't go on line when you indulge in mind altering substances - you just make your name "ASS" |
| BadIronTree | Oct 15, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Synchronize Bookmarks settings and mail RULE!!! |
| bigmama | Oct 12, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
read known issues: http://my.opera.com/desk...tant-searching-and-more |
| alanpalmer | Oct 16, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Odd. If I click on a bookmark I've placed on my toolbar this build crashes every time. If I choose a bookmark from the menu nothing at all happens. If I go to "Manage Bookmarks" then double-click on a bookmark, Opera opens the site. This only happens today; I used the new build yesterday and didn't notice any such behaviour. Still, it's an alpha ... |
| Floodland | Oct 12, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Great improvements. No more crashings with this build in vi$ta. Ad blocking feature is included, but you will have to "mark" contents you do not want to display. You only have to right click a page background and select "Block content..." from the contextual menu. No plugin needed. It works, I think a good idea to implement is to allow the downloading of a precomiled list to avoid most of the manual blocking for every site. There are some good sites offering compiled blocking lists (adblock plus anyone?)... The fastest engine even faster, 6/5 |
| darkripper | Oct 12, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
They are making a new engine. These versions are not for using them but for testing. These are weeklys. Lets see how opera will be when first betas will come out. |
| phhvn | Oct 14, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
this build can't run link in bookmarks |
| Diam0nd | Oct 12, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
#1 Even on those aplhas/betas I have next to none crashes. LOVE IT! |
| jafo818 | Oct 12, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Anything for Opera similar to Adblock? |
| Daddy_Spank | Oct 17, 2007 | 9.50 Build 9594 Alpha | 5 out of 5 |
Opera 9.24 was released today. It's better for everyday use, as 9.50 is still in very early alpha stages. |
| Perezoso | Dec 18, 2002 | 7.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Yeah...Much better now! :) They fixed a LOT of things here (build 2577) and the new "windows" (=washed) skin alleviates the bloated look&feeling of the previous release. Guess I'll consider it as my default browser again. |
| moov | Dec 18, 2002 | 7.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
THE BEST BROWNSER int he world ! Opera 7.0 (the beta2) is simply wonderful ! many thanks to Opera Team |
| cdaledave | Dec 19, 2002 | 7.0 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
Finally, Opera has a password manager. This is really great. I can't wait to see the final release! |
| GimieGimieGimie | Nov 26, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
My comments on Opera v8.50/51 can be found here: http://www.betanews.com/...deos/1132685634#c123908 |
| dono1216 | Nov 25, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Better browser than FF in many respects. Have both at home just because they're both free. ...Forced to use IE at work. Argghhhhhh. |
| Lands | Nov 23, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
This is the best browser ever. |
| Macross74 | Nov 23, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Great program fullstop. pity it does not get the same hype as firefox. every person is differant, as the below user stated their preferances. easy to convert from IE. |
| RADicalSatDude | Dec 8, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Very fast, bends to my will in every way possible, tool bars, adding custom search engines to the search bar.Saving my personal info and so on. Only thing annoying is the history layout, I prefer IE's***ory layout, and using the third party Search.INI editor, eventhough it works fine, just seems like it should've been built in as well. Look Maa No extensions! ;-) |
| Mystenes | Nov 22, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
the only thing that i'm looking for in Opera is "Adblock+" plugin :-) when someone will write this for Opera it will be the best browser on Earth! |
| fair_is_fair | Dec 28, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Opera is fast, secure, and feature-rich. Windows and linux versions available. I love "wand", the autologin tool. You really can configure Opera to your heart's desire. Opera is constantly under developement with regular updates. My only complaint is no 64 bit support as yet. Opera will spoil you on other browsers. |
| Brian49 | Nov 22, 2005 | 8.51 | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent - very stable, highly configurable, lightning fast. Some pages render a little differently to what they do in IE or IE-based browsers, but still render perfectly well. |
| Illissius | Dec 19, 2003 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
scodan: perhaps you might want to install plugins for quicktime/WMP/whatever it is you want to use? I mean, as good as Opera is, it doesn't come with a video decoder built-in (and native support for WMP is out of the question because they have a unified code base and port to like 5 OSes or something) (although, they should indeed make it more generally known that the plugins exist at all, are necessary, how to install them, etc). Otherwise, it's hands down the best browser ever. Not saying there's no room for improvement (it still crashes sometimes, a few sites still render badly (barely any that I go to though), plugin process could be easier), but even with all that, it gets 5 stars because it's still that much better than anything else. |
| k0zy | Dec 20, 2003 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
I like the new Interface... |
| dr_goodbytes | Dec 20, 2003 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
interface is different, not much, i think it looks good. the panels are interesting an interesting idea. i think the idea of a built-in chat client is interesting too. it's a bit more a "technology preview" than the standard opera. |
| Drewz | Dec 25, 2003 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
All of you that complained Opera crashes a lot, adjust the memory cache in Prefs. I use win 98, 333 mhz and I got it on Automatic, and I hardly crash anymore. |
| Aimo | Jan 18, 2004 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
fast, faster, the fastest??? it's just the best browser you can get...5 stars |
| blurred | Jan 13, 2004 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
its just getting better with every release , i hope microsoft is trying to learn a little from these guys :) |
| motmotmot | Dec 20, 2003 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
heheyy!!! good work! nice new interface and the all-new chat function i like the most. by the way, it seems that the downloading function such as mp3 and txt file in 'chat' client doesn't work. or maybe this new version of opera was designed for chatting purpose only??? :S |
| nant | Dec 19, 2003 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
Looks like good things to come. Note: this was not written for some reason in the description above, but it is recommended to NOT INSTALL THIS PREVIEW ONTOP OF PREVIOUS VERSIONS!!!(!!). Install to a different directory. |
| captainahab | Jan 17, 2004 | 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 | 5 out of 5 |
I am (or should I say was) an avid IE6 fan trying out the competition just for fun. I compared Firebird and Opera head to head. No contest, Opera is by far the fastest browser on earth. Tabs, mouse gestures, customizable, everything including a mail client - and all under 4MB! |
| Blaxima | Jun 27, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10080 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
RC1 didn't do anything for me but this release has fixed the issues I had with Gmail and the Block Content option |
| brusco | Jun 30, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10080 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
@nms04, As Opera is one of the most standards compliant browsers around I would hazard a guess that the fault lies with the MySpace site developers. To dock Opera a point because of this proves that you are clueless when it come to the web. (That fact that you use MySpace at all also gives this away.) |
| Diam0nd | Jun 27, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10080 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
del.icio.us bookmarking fixed! yay!!!! Opera > * Fast. Flexible. Secure Change log: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ |
| outofspace | Jun 29, 2008 | 9.51 Build 10080 RC2 | 5 out of 5 |
World Wide Web in seconds! It's do what it should do. Trying Firefox ( be with girl without sex) ) Safari ( other skin with no much dev.) |
| plings | Mar 10, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
"Scrolling the page of the result of the acid2 test removes the top of the smiley face as well as moves an additional black line underneath the 'scalp.' And this is simply scrolling with the wheel." That's what's EXPECTED. Acid2 isn't supposed to be scrolled. Opera passes Acid2, and that's that. |
| rafikk | Mar 13, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
I'm personally quite happy with latest builds. Few important problems fixed, better shortcuts (CTL D for bookmark), and ACID 2 test is finally passed :) |
| BogdanSHA | Mar 12, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
A new verion with REAL improvements each friday... Please, tell me about another browser like that... |
| Zankur | Mar 11, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Being a staunch supporter of firefox for years,i would admit this version of opera is far superior than any other browser available till date.... The new features which seem to flow in every now and then...makes it special... It also make me wonder what firefox has achieved in good 2 yrs?? It has got same features which opera had in 7! two years ago.. sorry,but with all great features and e-mail client,i dont think anybody comes close! |
| hurzx | Mar 10, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
So far so good, a relief after the build 8246 regression. A must-try. |
| horsecharles | Mar 12, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Agree w/ Diam0nd. Methinks Stisev's system (Quote: As a an self-proclaimed Opera fanboy, I urge you all **NOT** to use the latest betas)must be 1nf3ct3d with porno malware: I've'd ZERO issues with all v9 builds on 9x,ME,XP,Ubuntu4/5/6! (btw, was that as a self, as an elf, as an efin-pro, a** an, Hassan, sans self, saint Elmo?) I'd recommend to confirm this by testing on a different system, or on a new hard disk or empty partition w/ newly-installed OS.. buona fortuna, caro. I do hope though, that eventually, interfacing at music sites like Aol archive, Artistdirect, etc. becomes a reality. I don't really hold this against Opera, even though all the Moz browsers work fine at those two sites(meaning audio & video clips there can't be played on Opera)....as there are still sites that work with IE Only & No Other Browser, not even any of the ie engine variants like Maxthon, etc. |
| bggoth | Mar 10, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
@mdew: That wasnt even a real comment on the program. ): As for ALPHA version I give it 5. |
| Wirpo | Mar 11, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Wow, the Firefox fanboys are giving Opera a low rating just because Mastertech gives it a high rating. Typical. This is a better site than Mastertech's anyway: http://www.slyerfox.com/ |
| Diam0nd | Mar 12, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent. No crashes with the latest build. Btw, for those crying about instability, PLEASE, WAKE UP! This is BETAnews, not FinalNews, OK? Those BETAs are SUPPOSED to be unstable, because they are meant for testing, so please stop crying, because this is getting rediculous. 5/5. Opera > * |
| princeofpentacles | Mar 18, 2006 | 9.0 Build 8265 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
The best browser out there |