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Opera 10 beta 2 web browser released for Windows, Mac, and Linux
by Brad Linder Jul 16th 2009 at 4:30PM
- A "Synchronize Opera" button in the speed dial page
- A context menu to reload images in high quality
- Password manager with context-menu support
- Speed dial can have a custom favicon
- The Windows, OS X, and Linux skins have been updated
I also noticed another nifty feature today. I have no idea how long Opera has been able to do this, but I discovered when I was trying to create the screenshot at the top of this post that Opera 10 beta 2 will automatically resize images when you resize the browser window. This makes it easy to fit an entire web page into your browser without the need to scroll left and right no matter what size the window is.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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q said 6:20PM on 7-16-2009
@Brad
Fit to Width was introduced in 2005 (v8.0)
http://www.opera.com/docs/history/
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Brad Linder said 6:20PM on 7-16-2009
Heh, somehow this is the first time I noticed it, although it's not the first time I've used the browser by a long shot. Nice feature.
q said 6:35PM on 7-16-2009
I totally understand you.
Opera has many not-widely-known features, sometimes a bit hidden though...
If you do check the link I provided, it'll give some insight for sure.
Cheers
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dapxin said 8:44PM on 7-16-2009
maybe when you start talking about the features, more people can at least make be just a bit less ignorant what little beauty it is afterall Opera.
I just started using its email client + gmail + imap again (used to be very buggy back in the days) god! it beats outlook by the distance to moon.
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Brandon said 8:07AM on 7-17-2009
Best new feature: Ability to hide the menu bar and now finally access it through a popup button like every other system.
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Brandon said 8:07AM on 7-17-2009
Best new feature: Ability to hide the menu bar and now finally access it through a popup button like every other browser.
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thiel said 2:28AM on 7-24-2009
Don't know if my FF 3.5, is slower than it should be, but I was just doing some back to back testing with this at rendering pages, and it's crazy fast. Plus the default interface is much nicer looking - c'mon Mozilla get some good designers!
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