Comments on: Opera 10 Turbo on Video — the Web at Light Speed? http://gigaom.com/mobile/opera-10-turbo-on-video-the-web-at-light-speed/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lennart http://gigaom.com/mobile/opera-10-turbo-on-video-the-web-at-light-speed/#comment-424829 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:40:17 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42975#comment-424829 Hi Kevin, I’ve been an Opera-Fan for quite a while now and since the first beta versions of Opera 10 came with the built-in Turbo I once again knew why I always turn to Opera when I’m looking for browser innovations.

I just came back from my holidays in the Austrian mountains and although 3G coverage is pretty good in Austria (who would have guessed? plus: it’s reasonably priced), there are, of course, some spots left on the map where one would only see GPRS/EDGE. But with Opera Turbo that’s not a problem at all.

Opera is great anyway because of so many functions that other browser just don’t have. Mouse gestures (I’m aware of the Firefox addons but none of those can compete in with the built-in solution of Opera), visual tab bar, Opera Unite… just to mention a few.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/opera-10-turbo-on-video-the-web-at-light-speed/#comment-424828 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:14:03 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42975#comment-424828 Rich, I say give it a try. The only cost is the time it takes for a 5MB to 10MB download and install, depending on your platform. User experiences are sure to vary based on network connection, sites loaded and browsers by comparison, so I’d be curious to hear about your experiences as well as others with Opera Turbo. You hit the nail on the head that the real benefit is gained for wireless broadband users (and any remaining dial-up users, I’d guess). For that reason alone, I’m thinking of installing Opera on all of my mobile devices for specific use over 3G. Not sure on that one yet, but that’s my thought for now.

]]> By: Rich http://gigaom.com/mobile/opera-10-turbo-on-video-the-web-at-light-speed/#comment-424827 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:30:18 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42975#comment-424827 If it performed as well with cache cleared, I’d say this is a pretty serious bump in speed for free for all us wireless broadband users.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/opera-10-turbo-on-video-the-web-at-light-speed/#comment-424826 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:50:21 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42975#comment-424826 Asute observation and no I didn’t for that video. I realized that after I uploaded it but before publishing, so I cleared the cache in both and retested off-camera before the post went live. I saw no noticeable difference — Opera’s Turbo still beat the pants off Safari in this unscientific example, so I opted not to re-record. Thx!

]]> By: Rich http://gigaom.com/mobile/opera-10-turbo-on-video-the-web-at-light-speed/#comment-424825 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:23:50 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=42975#comment-424825 Kevin, did you clear your browser cache before doing these tests? It seems from your histories that you visited your site in both browsers before.

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