Comments on: Opera 10.50, Rushed, Unstable and Fast

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:50:27 +0000

Yeah, you’re dumb :P
Help – about is in the same place. Menu button – help – about opera. How is that hard to find? If you don’t like the menu button, click it and select ‘Show menu bar’ to bring back the old menu bar. You wasted more time posting here than you would have if you’d just read through the options in the menu.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:43:12 +0000

I was happy with 10.10.. upgraded to this version and now I can’t even find help >about to see what version it is? lol call me dumb but new cars don’t reposition the clutch or the position of the brakes.
I used “tools” on a daily basis, “view” on a daily basis and now I am wasting valuable time to find just where my network settings are and where the RSS feeds have gone.
I ended up here while trying to find a way to roll back to 10.10 so that I don’t waste any more time, which i don’t have! I have work to do.

By: fourmi

fourmi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:11:57 +0000

OK, I’m a relatively new user of Opera (though my installation of 10.50 was an upgrade, not sure from which version. Very impressed with the speed so I changed my default browser to Opera from Firefox.

Why am I here? Because Opera is crashing all the time! It IS an issue, and I really have no axe to grind. It may be that I should perform a fresh install, or clean the cache, or something, but how many other even less-techy users will care? They’ll just stop using it. Poor.

By: glache

glache — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:27:20 +0000

I found this release to be rushed and fast (dunno about unstable, didn’t stick round long enough to try). It chews up much more memory and just didn’t feel wholesome in terms of stability (that was the sense I got anyway). It was faster though, than Opera 10.10 but speed isn’t my top priority (though it’s good to have), and I figured I’d rather be a bit slower and use less memory so I can open up more documents. Just my 2c.

By: barky

barky — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:56:42 +0000

10.51 RC1 now out — seems to be much improved

By: steve

steve — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:02:08 +0000

Any skeptics – visit Opera’s forums and view the (abundant) issues with 10.50
Rolled back to 10.10 – and started using K-Meleon.

By: TTT

TTT — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:23:23 +0000

I’m wouldn’t bet that a avarage or sub-avarage user (i.e. the ones that will see the ballot screen) will download multiple browsers to try them out.. and, should it happen, they’ll select one to use as default..

indexing and search aren’t statistics, at best they are fast heuristics that should follow some statistical basis..

yes, I’m talking about sample size.. you should know that sample size matters if the sample considers dissimilar users to have a complete sample-set and if you can estimate noise (both are carefully considered in medical trials).. In our case you don’t have info on sample-set and (as the ballot screen is still in motion and people could download multiple browsers)the noise is huge. conclusion: daily statistics on this matter are nonsense..

when the ballot screen will have rolled out completely and the choices will be stable than you’ll be able to talk about statistics to prove your points.. and maybe you’ll even be right.. (about market share, not about which browser people should choose).

By: pneumatyka

pneumatyka — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:12:12 +0000

Simple, open Opera. Open some tabs. Open new Opera window (normal not private). Open some tabs there too. Close Opera (O-button -> Exit).
Open again and pick restore last session. Both windows are opened, but after few seconds It crashes, without report a bug or anything.

By: Dels

Dels — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:20:04 +0000

new snapshot build 3309 released yesterday…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:30:57 +0000

@nvm (under this post)
Do you just think Opera will sit at the sidelines and go to sleep? Chrome is just continuing speeding up like it has over the last years. Opera has managed to build an engine from scratch and get it faster than Chrome in months. I wouldn’t state such things (“Chrome 5 will PWN, you’ll see” (paraphrase)) as fact, considering there has not been some announcement of some crazy time saving algorithm that will be implemented or anything of that nature.