Opera Software, which is battling hard for market share with Google's Chrome, is promising users a faster surfing experience, an improved email client, and better browser-synchronisation capabilities, with the latest version of its browser launched this week. bThe Norwegian developer says that Opera 9.6 contains an expanded Opera Link. This means that users can more easily use their personal browsing identities on any computer. Essentially, it synchronizes a user's browser history, bookmarks and personal bar.Opera has also tweaked its built-in email client, Opera Mail, with a feature designed for users stuck with a slow broadband connection. The email client's "low-bandwidth mode" allows users to retrieve mails faster when bandwidth is limited. Opera Mail also contains a new feature that will help users swamped with email overload, as the email client now has two new ways to prioritize emails, so that users can easily (with a single click apparently), track important threads, and ignore less important ones.
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Yup. Most people have at least 2 email accounts. I've got four email accounts (personal, spam, shadrack, work) that I want to keep up with at work and at home. IMAP FTW. Too bad Outlook's IMAP sucks. Thunderbird and Opera mail have excellent imap support.
iexplorer 7.0: 30.6m
firefox.exe (3.0) : 67m (using some plugins).
Safari.exe (latest): 82m (brand new with the latest webkit)
So at first view eat less resource.
who cares it is like memory is expensive this days
Alfin!! someone with brain!!
Except for in cases of MMORPGS that need to coexist with your web browser XD.
Except for in cases of MMORPGS that need to coexist with your web browser XD.
I know you're just messin' around, but my computer's 4 years old running on 1.5GB DDR RAM. WoW with many addons, settings on high, WMP11 going, and Firefox with several addons as well... it still runs very decently. Could add the few applications as well that run in the background, but I think my point stands clear that it's still not much of an issue.
Just thought I'd make that a little clear in the concerns for memory consumption.
but unfortunately, Firefox has much of those nice plugins that opera doesn't have, so i guess i have to stay with Firefox for now...
...And why is Opera having to battle with Chrome? Chrome is a POS browser in comparison.
How's this any different than what any other version of Opera promises?
Not to say they don't deliver on that promise, but this doesn't really seem like front page news.
Hotmail has a pop3 address too for subscribers
Hotmail has a pop3 address too for subscribers
is it possible for a subscriber to give a non-subscriber that address to use or would it not authenticate ?
no extensions im aware of and its closed source.
you can however get some sort of extension-like functionality with use of UserJS.
A known bug ever since version 9 also is when you change the default max global views in the opera ini file, half your browsing simply stops. I HATE having a back dropdown button that shows eith million previously viewed pages.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=80858
Max Window History Lines=10
Max Direct History Lines=10
Max Global History Lines=10
Do still install it on many machines though. Still think it's the fastest, most secure browser of them all though, especially with the default settings.
What I don't like about Opera is that it's kind of a closed ecosystem. No external RSS reader support for example and getting it to work with external programs can sometimes be more difficult than it should be. The amount of little annoyances that have been around for several versions are the reason why I no longer use it. It also doesn't help that Opera seems to have more problems showing websites right than Chrome, it seems Opera is more strict about correct markup.
part of why opera is the most secure browser, unlike FF it dosnt have alot of external plugins/extentions that can make it insecure and unstable.
and 9.5 first run was rushed out, they effectivly admited that much, if you want to stay on top of the latist build of opera try
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=31
watch that section, they do weekly builds when a new builds in the works (most of the time)
I have rarely had a site that opera wont load in, and most times thats been due to my own "oops" with stuff i have done.
one peice of advice i have for everybody is to check operas forums(linked above) when you have a question or find a bug, the community is VERY helpfull as are the programers/staff of opera, honestly i see that little red O and smile because its been the best browser i have ever used.
ff1/2/3 all have alot of issues that bother me, so much so that i rarely open FF other then the current alpha to use the APNG creator, Chrome to me is handy and nice, i use it for flash conten since it honestly gives the best perf in flash content of any browser PERIOD(check the perf numbers, chrome main installs arent tops but I run nightly builds of Chromium and they work great for some jobs where no other browser really cuts it(InstantAction runs under Chrome FAR better then under any other browser!!!)
ive NEVER seen Opera using 300-400mb ram for a couple pages that arent even YouTube pages.
after this long in the game there should be no reason why it should be sitting idel and just soak up the RAM usage likea sponge leaving none for other programs. Thunderbird is the same way. ANNOYING
Using lots of RAM != memory leak.
Besides, Firefox 3.0.x hasn't hit 300 MB for me unless it's been open for a couple of days.
Using lots of RAM != memory leak.
Besides, Firefox 3.0.x hasn't hit 300 MB for me unless it's been open for a couple of days.
i leave opera open as long as my computer is running and that gets to be weeks at a time, it releases memory when it isnt needed unlike firefox and thunderbird.
so youre saying that with two text based sites open like forums that theres a totally logical reason for the browser to use 200-300 mb ram ? i dont think so. it should be like 20-30.
I have had none of thoe memory problems running Opera since 9.5.0. Since switching I have also realized it is simply a better browser all around anyways.
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