Opera 10 Beta 2: A Solution For Older Computers
Despite of Acid 3 Test proofs for the “possible” performances of the most commonly used web browsers, like Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera 10 Beta 2 browser seems to deliver a better user experience on older computers, having a CPU working at frequency of only 1 GB. The pages rendering speed is almost instantaneous, disregarding the quantity of CSS, JavaScript or the number of server side executed functions.
Here are a few improvements of the user interface (the entire change log can be viewed here):
-Opera Turbo warning icon
-Warning and advice about why dictionaries.xml file sometimes is missing from Auto update
-A “Synchronize Opera” button in the Speed Dial page
-Tab icons (inverted) for panels viewed as tabs
-An Open Folder menu item to the file browse control
-Multiple-server support for Auto Update
-A left-click context menu to the Opera Turbo button
-New icons for DOM Console, Who is, Send File, Spell Check, Authormode, and Usermode
-A context menu option to reload images in high quality
-Widget version support
-Password Manager with context-menu support
If you have an old computer, Opera 10 Beta 2 should give you a new insight about how the web browsing could be. It integrates revolutionary bandwidth compression technologies which will reduce the web pages rendering time, even on slow connections. Opera 10 Beta 2 is available for free download from the Opera website.
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