The ‘new’ features are primarily those highlighted by Opera on the v10 download page. Some of the updates are subtle, i.e. the tab bar can be expanded to show previews (v9.x shows on hover), speed dial can be customized, and webmail support means that Opera can open GMail, Hotmail, etc. when a mailto link is clicked (v9.x only supports email client applications).

I’m talking about tab preview, speed dial and web mail integration. Specially about the last two: Excuse me, but how do you expect me to believe that you actually have used Opera seriously before when you cannot recall that webmail is integrated in Opera for ages and that speed dial is the feature that everybody copied from Opera 9.5?

Seems that Opera covered much more needs than some users could think of!

I’ve read that the Voice feature works in Opera 9 but not Opera 10, and that it may be discontinued.

I went to opera.com, and I didn’t see a single mention of the Voice feature in the list of Opera 10 features.

It is made with functionality in mind. I love simple things like “paste and go” when you right-click to paste a URL into the address bar, and you go straight to the URL without having to hit enter or search for the “Go” button!

I’m still using version 9.21 and I am perfectly happy with it!

Anyway, I’ve been using 10 beta since it came out and I just love how stable it is, and it is noticeably faster.

Let me guess what you’re going to cover tomorrow: Opera Turbo?

Opera literally saved my browsing life, i also love how configurable it all is. Superb, and i can’t wait for Opera 10.

However, the best tool for web development is Safari’s (4 Beta on OSX), it knocks all the other browsers ones out the water and is better than then web dev toolbar for firefox too in my opinion. So i have Opera open for browsing and Safari open for development. Now if only they all rendered my css exactly the same….

My main reason for switching was because anything running on the Mozilla framework appeared to have memory leaks (I used firefox and komodo edit). Firefox was exceeding 1 gig of ram usage with only a few tabs opened half the time. I assumed that something was out of date on my computer but never bothered checking since changing to Opera was much easier and met all my browsing needs out of the box. It has everything I need built in a now with some of these extra features I definately won’t be changing for a long time.

I even stopped using Thunderbird because using the Opera mail client is so much faster since I usually alread have the application open.

I still use Firebug for developement as DragonFly lacks some features I can’t go without (like inspect element). Hopefully Opera 10 will add the features I want in DragonFly so I can just use Firefox for testing.

Downloading 10 now :)

tab previews
speed dial customization
in-line spell checking
crash recovery