I love the opera browser. I've been using it as my main browser for years, as far back as my Windows days. It is excellent, nice to look at, has many features of the features which I use frequently. Opera has been noted as an innovator in advancing web standards, in new browser features and in many other ways.
The current official release of Opera is 10.10. But there are previews of their upcoming new version 10.5 available. I've been playing with it on and off. The initial linux versions were only in a generic format which took some fiddling to get running.
They have since released "packages" for the various linux flavours so I've been installing them. At first I found that while opera installed fine, it just wouldn't run. Then today I had the bright idea of seeing if it was my pre-existing configuration file that was the problem.. it was. I renamed the old directory from .opera to .opera- backup installed the latest opera preview and blammo it worked. Then I had to copy different files across from the old .opera to the new one to gain some of the previous settings. That was a bit tedious, but I got there.
One nice feature in opera is "Opera Link" which enables you to synchronise bookmarks over several computers. So it was dead easy to regain my previous bookmarks.
Opera has always been fast, but it now seems even faster then before. It just seems to lay out the pages so fast, it's incredible.
If you want to sample the latest Opera previews go to the desktop team's page. As it's not an official release, it may be a bit rough around the edges, but it's worth trying out.
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