So I noticed Opera 10 alpha release, I have become more of a Opera fan over the past releases… maybe your asking why know what I’ll tell you why but you have to try it out as well.
Opera is not only a web browser its a complete Internet suite, you have a nice download manager, email client, RSS reader and you can even take notes. What more can you ask for really, you actually do get the whole package without having to mess around with installing add-ons for the browser.
But you cannot forget the security side of using Opera, at the moment Opera is a rather secure browser especially when comparing it to Internet Explorer and Firefox, this may change when it become more popular but thats the way things work unfortunately… just means its time to stop using Windows – easier said than done really.
So why the fuss over Opera 10.
Well when leaving Firefox really the only thing I missed was the spell checker, this I really found hard to live without it they did allow you to use aspell but I did install opera a lot so it made it rather difficult but now they have a spell checker built within Opera 10 making life so much easier when writing a blog or just catching up on forums.
Apparently the new engine it is built on is 30% faster at rendering website pages, which I have noticed especially on websites build quite heavily around Ajax like Google Mail and when using a laptop not built for performance it really does make all the difference, I found browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer hung a lot while trying to load the resource hungry websites.
Unfortunately it is only a alpha release… but who cares I’m going to use it, I really have noticed the difference!
I don’t need to tell you though its Opera, try it yourself!
Hey its in beta now.