Opera 10.50 Beta 2 released

[Growled Member]

Opera's ad blocker works great, only issue is you have to manually block items or download a list to block things. There is a list somewhere out there thats basically the ad blocker list for Opera, but you have to manually update it, no auto-updates.

It's called urlfilter.ini in Opera. As for flashblock:

http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

[DemonicHawk]

Does Opera scroll too fast (in comparison to other browsers) for anyone else? This is the only thing stopping me from using Opera and I have to admit that it's a pretty decent browser and very fast!

[Jayayess1190]

Does Opera scroll too fast (in comparison to other browsers) for anyone else? This is the only thing stopping me from using Opera and I have to admit that it's a pretty decent browser and very fast!

Yes, but now I have become fine with it and it doesn't bother me so much anymore.

[Buendia]

There's an option Smooth Scrolling in Preferences > Advanced > Browsing

[Quillz]

Beta 2 appears to have broken Opera Link syncing (it cleared my entire bookmark toolbar, and it never seems to sync right, anyway) and Appearance options are broken. (List boxes at the bottom of the dialog box don't do anything.)

Otherwise, seems to be a solid build.

[andy_rose]

Only thing that keeps me away from Opera is a small but annoying thing. Whenever I download something, it opens up a new tab, and there is no way to turn that off. I dont need a new tab to control my downloads.

[Ki_Shodar]

Only thing that keeps me away from Opera is a small but annoying thing. Whenever I download something, it opens up a new tab, and there is no way to turn that off. I dont need a new tab to control my downloads.

Andy, I think this is what you're after. ;)

[tom01]

Only thing that keeps me away from Opera is a small but annoying thing. Whenever I download something, it opens up a new tab, and there is no way to turn that off. I dont need a new tab to control my downloads.

^^ Beat me too it ¬_¬

[andy_rose]

Ah thanx my old friend:)

[x-byte]

You can also now remove the Opera button, top left of the browser. Not sure if earlier builds could do that.

[Syanide]

It really is the most complete web browser out there. I still prefer Firefox because I can customize it more, but they're really doing great.

[DavidM]

Does it seem slower to anyone else? FF is loading pages faster on both my laptop and desktop, the last beta went into a crash cycle. I removed the older version completely, so I don't think that's causing any problems.

Maybe it's just me?

[x-byte]

A few users have claimed beta 2 is slower in rendering pages, but benchmarks looks good. Haven't noticed anything myself.

[Growled Member]

A few users have claimed beta 2 is slower in rendering pages, but benchmarks looks good. Haven't noticed anything myself.

I haven't noticed any slowness either.

[Neoauld]

My only complaint other than the obvious ones(ie no extensions) is with the skin

When you pop out the side bar, it doesnt quite belong there. Its this ugly blue bar that just feels like it was slapped on top.

[nullie]

New Opera daily build, post-Beta 2. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

Plus there's a Mac beta now.

[x-byte]

Plus there's a Mac beta now.

Heh, maybe now Neowin will notice it.

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Plus there's a Mac beta now.

Heh, maybe Neowin notice that Opera 10.5 have been in beta now.

[Kronir]

Good update; many of the problems I had with beta 1 seem to be working now.

[ViperAFK]

A few users have claimed beta 2 is slower in rendering pages, but benchmarks looks good. Haven't noticed anything myself.

Reverse placebo :rolleyes:

[Quillz]

You can also now remove the Opera button, top left of the browser. Not sure if earlier builds could do that.

This was possible with Beta 1. I always hide it, since you can access the menu bar just by pressing "Alt." No need for a large, ugly icon.

It really is the most complete web browser out there. I still prefer Firefox because I can customize it more, but they're really doing great.

There's still some things I wish Opera would adopt though... A real bookmarks toolbar, for one. The Personal bar is clunky, not letting me put it where I want it some of the time. I also wish Opera Link was a little more advanced... Everytime I sync, it always replaces my synced settings with old bookmarks I deleted long ago. They need to offer an option to delete what's on the browser already and replace it with what's on the server, etc.

[.Neo]

The Mac version actually looks OK now. It feels more like a native application, but clearly it still isn't fully.

Too bad Safari is the only browser that has a picture perfect Aqua interface. I hate the fact all those other browser developers are trying to reinvent the wheel by creating custom interfaces and custom services (like spell-check) instead of using the native ones.

[soumyasch]

Like it so far, and much better than before, but its no chrome. Its installed, but will hardly use it.

Theme

[Mike]

A few users have claimed beta 2 is slower in rendering pages, but benchmarks looks good. Haven't noticed anything myself.

Benchmarks show it slower than the snapshots before it, the snapshot released after the beta 2 was quicker though (and back in line with the previous snapshots)

[Veedems Veteran]

Interesting results between Chrome 5.0.335.1 and Opera 10.5 Beta 2 on my Athlon64 3700+ system with 2GB RAM and Geforce 6600GT GPU. First, the overall results:

But now the individual results:

So, it appears that Opera renders faster, but Chrome processes the information more quickly, which probably results in the perceived speed difference on my system.

[Bioran]

Opera seems to mess up everytime I recover from hibernation. (Close button adds a tab, transparency goes haywire) Anybody else getting this? Or is it just me?