Opera 10.50 Lands On Windows, Mac And Linux Version ‘Coming Soon’
Robin Wauters
Mar 2, 2010

Opera Software today released Opera 10.50, which it touts as “the fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers” (which, in turn, calls for a comprehensive speed test – anyone?). The desktop browser has also been given a completely new design, adopting some of the style elements Google Chrome users will be familiar with.

Additionally, Opera 10.50 comes with a private browsing feature that enables people to browse for porn surprise gifts for their partners without leaving any traces.

The desktop browser, which is free to use, lands on Windows at a time when Microsoft has just rolling out its ballot screen for European users of the OS, presenting them with a choice in browsers (supposedly random, but not in reality, as we pointed out last week).

The Norwegian software maker calls Opera 10.50 the fastest browser they’ve ever produced, courtesy of a brand new JavaScript engine (Carakan) and a graphics library (Vega). The browser is also said to include improved standards support for HTML5 and CSS3.

For Windows 7 and Vista users, there are some more goodies: Opera now fully supports Aero Glass, Aero Peek and Jump Lists. You can easily access your Speed Dials, tabs and more from the Taskbar.

Opera 10.50 is available for Windows in 42 different languages – Mac and Linux versions are “coming soon”.

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  • lulwut

    Have been waiting for this since the alpha…it’s totally awesome.

  • http://www.hostmyjpg.com/ John Smith

    I’ve been using the the beta and snapshot versions for awhile now and I’ve been very impressed.It really is the fastest browser on earth. Even on Linux. Omg! Ubuntu did some speed tests on it awhile back and found the same thing.

  • jackwolfe

    Opera 10.50 is the better browser to date. The new UI works is awesome. The arrival of Jon Hicks to their team really brings change to Opera’s usual half-baked UI. And it’s also, very fast.

    Seriously they just need marketing effort or probably social media campaign to drive users to use it, it’s a good browser, better than Chrome i’d say.

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab De

    Quite true. Its supremely fast and also functional.

  • http://www.leeeen.com/s/Opera_Browser Jon

    Opera has come a long way in the last few years. It used to be one of the fastest — It still is, I guess

    But now we are used to firefox and chrome!

    At first we need a faster browser, then we need plugins to slow it down!

  • http://www.leeeen.com/s/Opera_Browser Jon

    Btw, noticed that the timestamps on the comments are wrong! The time is in PST, but it says UTC!

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  • S

    I believe the desktop browser was introduced by Opera and Chrome copied it. Correct me if I’m wrong.
    Chrome copied quite a few other features from Opera anyway.

  • http://www.keep2enjoy.blogspot.com Shravan

    Great News

  • Rob
  • Robin Wauters

    Everyone ‘steals from’ everyone, but it’s a fact that the new redesign of the latest Opera browser more closely resembles Google Chrome’s look than before it was released.

  • cedefop

    I used Opera for several years before Firefox. It was great, I would like to use it again. But there are 2 things missing I can’t live without anymore:

    1. A good Adblocker. I know there are some custom urlfilter.ini files around, but AdBlock Plus for Firefox works WAY better.

    2. Inclusion of the StartCom SSL certificate. Its included in Firefox, Safari, Chrome and even Internet Explorer, so Opera is the last major browser who doesn’t work out of the box with StartSSL certificates. I can import it manually, but the point is that Opera makes it difficult to create websites with a free SSL certificate.

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  • http://goopplesoft.blogspot.com Raul Sim

    I think I’m gonna try it, but I’ll stick to Firefox and Chrome.

  • phil

    ha! extensions don’t slow down chrome. just ff.

  • http://www.iamfrankstallone.com Frank Stallone

    Opera is probably the most beautiful and hugely under rated browser out right now. Props to Jon Hicks on a wonderful design I truly do love it!

  • http://www.instantfundas.com Kaushik

    Opera is pushing through to get 10.5 out before the ballot screen goes live. I don’t think it’s a good decision particularly if there are still unpatched bugs with the browser.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503558191 Arun Prabhakar

    Yea thats true ….

  • Abdel

    This really looks like Chrome.

  • Eruaran

    The emphasis on putting “coming soon” in quotations gives the reader the “don’t hold your breath” impression. But Opera’s history of Mac and Linux support for their browser is excellent and there is no reason to believe Mac and Linux users will have to wait very long. In my experience, when Opera say something is coming soon, their word is good.

  • http://sportsp2p.com vishnu

    Opera is awesome very fast

  • http://www.keepmebooked.com Bruce Greig

    I just ran a speed test on KeepMeBooked (reservation calendar for B&Bs and guesthouses) and Opera was indeed fastest to switch from one javascript-heavy page to another (2.4 sec vs 3.3 sec for Chrome).

    Details here:

    http://blog.keepmebooked.com/2010/03/browser-speed-test-on-keepmebooked.html

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  • JM

    Just tried it out and I just don’t see anything compelling about Opera. Even if it’s .5 second faster than what I’m currently using (mostly Chrome and some Firefox), it’s not enough reason to switch. I love Chrome’s speed, application shortcuts and their growing selection of useful extensions.

  • http://chabuya.net chabuya

    i think the new redesign looks pretty good, but why copy the ‘adress or search’ bar and still leave the search bar?

  • Robin Wauters

    wtf?

  • MIK

    The search box has dropdown menu on the left, where you can select from different search engines (Wikipedia, Youtube, Amazon). You can create your own search engines from any website by rightclicking on any form and selecting “Create search”. Search bar (box) can be removed by right clicking and selecting “Remove From Toolbar”
    You may also create and use keywords for search engines. G for Google, YT for youtube, W for Wikipedia and use any search engine straight from address bar (e.g.: “yt movie”, “g keyword”, “w keyword” etc.).

  • ACE

    it’s crazy though, but when you add bing as your default search engine in the search box opera mysteriously sends bing the wrong data while posing as the right data so bing returns no results.
    the bing search bar works in firefox, Internet Explorer and others and doesn’t work in opera? something is fishy about this.

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  • Eric

    I just tried it, setting Bing as my default. Seems to work fine here. Maybe you just need to clean the cookies to get it working. Can’t seem to reproduce a bug.

  • ACE

    it seems to be working now, wasn’t working before, didn’t need to clear any cache, it was the first time I installed opera on this Windows 7 installation. the visual tabs at the top caught my eyes and I’m using it now.

    for some reason IE8 seems to load pages a bit faster for me, but opera is looking better than IE8 right now as I’m running using opera with the Z1-glass skin. it looks really nice with aero glass enabled. I wish the scroll bar could have the aero effect too.

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  • thing

    Check out the campaign of the new browser!

    http://jela.hu/?p=762

    :-)

  • PDH

    The installed Opera user base of 17 people is totally psyched.

  • http://www.dorksandlosers.com Tan The Man

    I wish all girls thought speed was the ultimate turn on….

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  • Tim

    Awesomely ugly. That visual tab screenshot is a serious waste of space on the window chrome. Because of the Aero abuse, you can almost see more what is behind your browser than what is in it!

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  • ACE

    waste of what space? when you’re looking into a 28inch monitor this view becomes golden, especially when you put tabs at the bottom of the window. it really goes well with windows 7.

    “window chrome” are you serious guy?
    “aero abuse”? get real, aero is a very nice addition to Windows’ User Interface and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them copy it on Linux if they haven’t done so already.

    personally I don’t like opera the company but this browser release blew me away

  • mork

    I’m sure it will be not as fast as this one. And its features/plugins won’t be as good as this one.

    So what’s the fuzz?

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  • Justin WHit

    Wow, looks good but Im am not ready to jump the Firefox ship just yet.

    Jerry
    http://www.anonymous-web.es.tc

  • Mike

    Way to show off your ignorance without researching anything first. In case you haven’t been keeping up on any other technology-related news recently:

    http://lifehacker.com/5483544/opera-105-final-for-windows-brings-the-speed

    http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9156878/Opera_10.5_grabs_browser_speed_crown

    And regarding plugins : Opera has had user scripts available for longer than I care to remember. They may not have all of the scripts and flexibility that Firefox has, but a little research would likely surprise you.

    Would you also like to claim something about it’s standards compatibility? Or perhaps developer tools? Or any other misinformed, outdated notions?

  • http://www.wyur.org/ nellyconway

    Works very nice on my XP machine. Great!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=62600992 Nick Paul Craig

    I love you.

    This is perfect

  • http://iloveguitar.net I Love Guitar

    The browser wars is getting more interesting every month.

  • http://www.nocrony.com/ Jose

    The browser wars is getting more interesting every month.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000768177467 Hiroshi Hokujima

    I am a firefox user.
    I’ve never use Opera before.
    But I made sure Opera 10.50 is the best browser.

    I am afraid that a few objects of facebook cannot
    work properly by Opera now.

    However I can expect latest Opera to do nice
    works in the future.

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  • jeff

    For some reason, I can't use the keyword G and do a good search anymore… Does anybody have the link for it?

  • http://www.hotsalewatch.com Discount Watches

    Even on Linux. Omg! Ubuntu did some speed tests on it awhile back and found the same thing.

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