I have been using the Opera web browser for many years now and have really appreciated the fact that they have introduced a lot of nifty and useful features – usually before anyone else.
Now version 10 is out in beta form. And again there are a lot of new cool features. The headline grabbing feature this time is Opera Turbo: “Opera Turbo is a compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections like a crowded Wi-Fi in a cafe or browsing through your mobile phone while commuting.” They use compression technology to achieve this. Opera also includes an email client, improved design, speed dial, trash can where you can reopen closed tabs, etc.
They have also increased the speed of the browser itself: “We optimized the new Opera Presto 2.2 engine in Opera 10 to be much faster on resource-intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook.”
This could do wonders for your slow dial-up, or satellite connection! Give it a try and let me know how it works out for you!
By the way, they also have a little web browser called the Opera Mini you can load on your phone (it's free) and it works great even on very small screens. I used it on my little Samsung cell phone in the Philippines, and I could open and read any web page I wanted.
Download and more info here.
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