Opera 10 Features, Release Date
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on October 25, 2008
Here you go, a list of some Opera 10 features and known facts.
Opera 10 alpha will be ready till the end of this year.
Opera 10 will include auto update.
Opera 10 will have an inline spell check.
And besides that, well known changes:
New interface: redesigned skin.
New rendering engine: more performance, less compatibility issues, stability.
More applications that runs outside web browser.
Increased security.
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Opera doesn’t have compatibility issues. “Web-designers” that build “sites” in MS Word have issues ;)
As for stability: Opera is the least crashing program in my PC (it competes with Total Commander on that matter).
HaRT,
Yes, what I mean’t is like web browser should “recognize” what web developer tried to do there and display it correctly. Or something like that ;-)
Regarding stability, not sure if this is Opera or Flash 10 issue but when I’m using it, it sometimes crash up to few times per day.
Am I the only one disappointed at the lack of development focus in the email/feed/nttp functionality (M2) in Opera ?
At what point do they stop releasing new rendering engines, if they can’t get it right by now then why not just use KDE’s webkit like Apple’s Safari?
Bill,
No.. you’re not the only one, i really wish that opera get some focus on M2 it suxs that you can’t send HTML messages. and for feeds i’d like to see some few more issues there
New interface: redesigned skin.
:’(
Not again please! I don’t thing the majority of users wants, that the look of their favorite software changes every half year.
:’(
spellcheck - I don’t need it
automated update - I don’ need it
@Vygantas and you know all that news from…?
werwolf,
I think it will be more “tweaked” not a “compelte redesign” (but who knows…).
Expect maybe for Mac.
vote for Skracanie linków’s comment.
Skracanie linków,
Which point exactly?
I’m really holding my breath for Opera 10.
Opera 9.5 / 9.6 is already very stable for me, I don’t remember any crashes since they got released. (I use Flash, of course.) And Opera 9.6 is more compatible and smoother with sites than any previous release I used.
Still, auto update (also for Opera-hosted custom skins) and inline spell checker are among the most needed features for me too.
I would also need an editor of “saved sessions”, or making them integrated into the bookmarking system.
Also, a profile manager and a “privacy mode” would be nice.
I miss the ability to reorder the searches in the settings dialog, and the bookmarks on the pull-down menu (like you can in Internet Explorer).
Apart from these, I would only need a few minor GUI tweaks, like the ability to reorder bookmarks in the possibility to bookmark multiple windows at the same time (like from the windows/tabs side panel), and an option for the tab bar to let it be scrolled so tabs would not have to be so extremely small when one opens a hundred of tabs.
@Vygantas all that news from this post of course
Skracanie,
Release date: zdnet
Next two: http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-10-to-have-inline-spell-check/
New interface: they’ve hired a new designer for that for the purpose of that + was told on their blog ~1y ago I think, same with other last points
Correction of my previous post (I made a copy/paste /del mistake):
Apart from these, I would only need a few minor GUI tweaks, such as *the possibility to bookmark multiple windows* at the same time (like from the windows/tabs side panel), and an option for the tab bar to let it be scrolled so tabs would not have to be so extremely small when one opens a hundred of tabs.
As far as I remember, they said, that Opera Mail is quite old and needs some refreshment. And Kestrel will introduce backend changes (and so it happened…), and Peregrine (Opera 10) will have bigger interface changes. I guess having HTML mail won’t be a big issue considering the fact, that it’s a program for displaying HTML pages, and reading HTML messages is possible for a while. So I guess there will be some new HTML-like features like bold, italic characters, or chaniging font size. But it won’t have many options I guess, just like the built-in Bittorrent client…
Who knows, whether Opera 10 will have Presto x.x for rendering engine or something brand new? Opera 4 had Elektra, Opera 7 had presto, and Opera 10…
I hope it will pass Acid3 anyway…
“Am I the only one disappointed at the lack of development focus in the email/feed/nttp functionality (M2) in Opera ?”
Yeah, never mind the fact that the entire back-end was rewritten for 9.5, and most of the additions in 9.6 were mail releated.
“At what point do they stop releasing new rendering engines,”
Yeah, what’s up with that? Never mind the fact that the web is ever-changing. All the other browser vendors never stop releasing new rendering engines either. But it’s only when Opera does it that it becomes a problem. Funny that.
“if they can’t get it right by now then why not just use KDE’s webkit like Apple’s Safari?”
Yeah, I bet Opera would love to be a slave to Apple’s release cycles. That, or they would have to fork WebKit, and basically end up in the same situation they are now.
And never mind the fact that WebKit never stops coming out in new versions (nor does Gecko or Trident). Apparently, no one can get it right, since no browser vendor has stopped working on their rendering engine.
But it’s only Opera we need to comment on because, you know, it’s Opera, so we need to troll about it.
Funny that.
Oh, and never mind the fact that WebKit has more compatibility problems than Opera.
Yeah, never mind the facts. Look, a shiny object!
I hope they spend some more time on the Speed Dial, or the Speed Dial page itself. So many possibilities they can exploit there; customized thumbs (I’d love to dedicate a large part of the page to display Google Reader (or any RSS-reader/feed)), or just integrate it Google Reader :P (that’d be awesome).
The “live search” they have in Chrome would be nice too. Omnibar something or such it’s called? My favourite feature in Chrome. Or the only one I notice. Heh.
No revolution is necessary, but eyecandy like the Cooliris program for Firefox would be nifty. It’s extremely practical when you want to buzz through tons of google images and muck about in Flickr.
Morghus: What kind of “Live Search” do you think of? I don’t see any usable feature in Chrome, that can’t be done in Opera…
Auto Update is very nice, but I expect some CSS improvements from this browser. Fixing bugs for IE is possible while for Opera is not so.
Asa Dotzler is going to be so happy that Opera will have an auto-update feature. Now he can shut his hole.
I recently updated from 3.0.0.2 to 3.0.0.3, and the download was just under TEN MEGABYTES. It sounds like he ought to be complaining to his own team about their auto-update feature. I thought the idea behind auto-update was that only the changes had to be pushed out, not a completely new browser. I guess I was mistaken.
I don’t really see the point in an auto-update feature if it forces an update on the user. Right now, what Opera is doing by letting the user know a new version is out is a pretty good solution. Nonetheless, thanks for the hard work, devs. I heart Opera.
Any promises on when Acid3 will be passed? Is that going to be 10.5 or later?
i have an issue with opera not letting me play some games namely MSN games and not being able to do much in the way with any micrsoft web items like it won’t run windows update or validation right at all but i do like the quick links i just wish there was an option to add more than 9 of them
@homade
M$N games and windoze updates check for IE browser plus run activex, which won’t run on anything but IE
I can’t wait for Opera 10! It’s ironic that the guy that told me about the browser is now a Firefox user. *sigh*
[...] Unul dintre efectele acestui nou război este că producătorii browserelor, vor lansa mai des noi versiuni ale produselor lor (vor fi lansate noi versiuni la interval de câteva luni, nu câţiva ani), şi că versiunile minore lansate, aduc nu numai bugfix-uri ci şi caracteristici noi.După ce am aflat că Mozilla va lansa Firefox 3.1 în primul semestru din 2009 (primul beta este deja disponibil), care va aduce, pe lângă câteva îmbunătăţiri ale interfeţei grafice, noul engine de Javascript, care se anunţă rapid (mai rapid decât Google Chrome), Opera a anunţat câteva din planurile pentru Opera 10.Aflăm astfel că vom avea parte de primul alpha până la sfârşitul acestui an, că vom avea în sfârşit parte de un spellchecker integrat şi de auto-updates, un motor de redare îmbunătăţit (probabil că va trece testul Acid3), şi câteva îmbunătăţiri la capitolul securitate.Via FavBrowser.com [...]
Opera has some issues in viewing sites correctly. also, Yahoo! still doesn’t seem to support Opera browser. other than those, Opera’s features are really good. i just hope this Opera 10 won’t be messing aroundlike IE does, and will do good just like Firefox does.
I have Opera 10 Alpha now and it is the most stable one ever built so far under Windows XP. Now I just gotta see if it works under Windows NT Workstation 4.0 correctly (Hopefully the images are not displayed upside down)
Also, they should at least pay some attention to the Windows Native skin! There are some of us who do not like the Standard skin because it is hard to see the buttons and it takes up a lot of resources!
There are a lot of bugs regarding the Windows Standard skin!
Also, at least I don’t have to wait for 2-3 years before I get a decent update, unlike Microfost Internet Exploder.
There’s at least one giant gap Opera is in a toxic state of denial about: the inadequacy of their widget system. They’re losing market share to Mozilla because of it. Opera needs to reverse engineer Firefox compatibility [if possible, or even legal] or at the least make widget design an easy extra step for extension writers. Something, anything!
Till then, being faster, stabler and securer won’t help, enough.
I was an Opera devotee, but Downthemall!, Ad Block Plus, Web of Trust, AutoUpdater, Thumbnail Expander, Showcase, and Clipta toolbar [etc!] keep me away from Opera.
I’d prefer to return, but till Opera Inc. gets with the program, I’m stuck with the klunky, slow and unstable browser from Mozilla. Sigh.
Having external executables working inside the browser doesn’t qualify as secure.