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).
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
