SO excited. I continue to be impressed with Opera corp in 2010. They fumbled a bit with inital 10.x release but recovered in a big way with 10.5x and now this one is the Best Opera EVER. This one even beats out Iron Browser in Peacemaker benchmark for me, which has been a very formidable opponent until now..
Likewise. I just installed it and it feels...really fast. My Facebook homepage seems to load much faster than it did in 10.5x, which was already no slouch.
It's great for the browser market as a whole, Chrome, IE, Safari, FF and Opera each want to constantly one up each other so if Opera has pulled ahead again in speed you can be sure the others will be aiming to beat it.
In my testing (Ubuntu 10.04 x64) there are tons of bugs. Bookmark import dialog box won't close, some pages crash when restoring the session after exit, it's much slower than chrome or firefox... Am I the only one seeing problems?
I'm actually on the same setup (Ubuntu 10.04 x64) and I haven't had any of those bugs. I didn't import bookmarks at all (using the same profile from Opera 10.11) and it's much faster than Firefox and Opera 10.11. Chromium is about on par in term of launch time but is slower in term of page load speeds. I've only been using this since yesterday when it was released but I haven't seen a bug so far.
Glad to see that there are FreeBSD and OpenSolaris versions available (a clear advantage over Chromium!), considering I've recently transitioned my desktop box to FreeBSD. I'll have to give Opera a spin and run some benchmarks of my own.
Do you really value benchmarks over the general usability and usefulness of a web browser? I love Opera and could not care less how fast its Javascript or rendering engines are. Unless pages are abusing them or have bugs, it just does not matter to me.
Used Opera last summer for about 6 weeks but ultimately gravitated back to FF. Kept it installed and used it periodically to check CSS rendering between browsers. I liked 10.5 but not enough.
I've noticed performance issues with FF lately so I upgraded to Opera 10.6 today just to see. Yeesh. This is fast. I'm going to stay for a while. It's a nice experience.
In the eye candy department... Anyone notice the new effects on the tab rollover? Nice fading gradient and slick animation if you then hover over a different one.
And still has the bug where if you use right click+left click to go back a page, if your cursor lands on a link when the page loads it automatically follows it.
Yup-bug report submitted. I can replicate it on both my OS X machines-position your cursor over a hyperlink and click to follow it. Without moving the mouse, press right click+left click to go back a page. Release the mouse buttons. If your mouse is positioned correctly still Opera will immediately follow the link again. Its aggravating, especially since I don't tend to move the mouse cursor much.
It is quite incredible with it's speed. I just might become a believer :) Firefox is plagued by performance problems on linux (at least for me). To be honest compared to chrome FF is pretty sluggish feeling. But Opera "feels" faster than chrome :) Its impressive.
Opera is not open sourcing their engine as it doesn't fit in with their business model (they earn revenue by licensing their engine to companies like Adobe).
However, where ever possible Opera encourages open standards and openness. They have been amongst the strongest supporters of Ogg Theora and now WebM. Their DragonFly developers tool is open source.
Opera's Ogg Theora video player is based on open source gstreamer.
http://sourcecode.opera.com/gstreamer/
Also notable is Opera's opposition to software patents and their contribution to the W3C and WHATWG.
