Filed under: Freeware, Beta, Browsers
Opera 10 beta 3 speeds up, drops Unite, tweaks interface
Visual tab previews can now be displayed on the left or right - in previous versions, thumbnails only appeared if your tab bar was placed on the top or bottom. There's also an auto-updater built in and a better inline spell checker, thanks to the open source Hunspell project.
Gone from beta 3 is Opera's server-in-browser project Unite. Because it is still in the alpha stage of development the decision was made to deliver Unite as a separate download.
Beta 3 definitely feels faster than previous versions, though it still came up short in benchmarks like Dromaeo and Peacekeeper. With my usual set of half a dozen "core" web apps open, Opera initially used about 40mb memory less than Firefox 3.5. However, as I kept my session open usage continued to climb, ultimately peaking around 230mb (about the same as Google Chrome 3 on the same system).
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
