Presto upgrade to Opera 25
-
lodestone last edited by
I'm glad to see so many like Opera 25.
I just ran speed a test with a simple kitchen timer measuring only whole seconds. To see how long from hitting the Opera 12.17 icon on my task bar to my www.startpage.com and the same with Opera 25.
The results using Sandboxie and not using it:Opera 12.17
unsandboxed: 4 seconds.
Sandboxed: 6 seconds.Opera 25 unsandboxed: 8 seconds.
Sandboxed: 14 seconds.Once on my www.startpage.com start page I typed in "google".
The page with Google as the top link appeared after 2 seconds in Opera 12.17 and after 1 second in Opera 25.I repeated each test a few times.
Sandboxie deletes the bookmark blocks in Speed Dial after closing Opera 25. So unless you surf unsandboxed in 25 your Speed Dial bookmarks will not be there the next time.
I'm not sure how that works in Opera 12.17 Speed Dial sandboxed, as I disabled Speed Dial soon after utilizing Opera some 9 years ago. But Sandboxie leaves my bookmarks list (accessible by tapping on the little yellow star) in 12.17 untouched.
Not a difficult decision for me to make between using 12.17 or 25. I'm very grateful to the developers for my favorite browser: Opera 12.17.
-
lodestone last edited by
Only now did I discover that you can edit your post by clicking -or tapping if you use a touchpad as I do- on the little gray cog wheel on the left...
-
A Former User last edited by
LodeStone, :lol:.
Still, your actual loading speed at a given moment depends on the current configuration of your path to the server. :idea: To objectively measure your connectivity, I guess you need a dedicated speedtest service. Like - yes:) speedtest or speed.io. There are others. -
lodestone last edited by
Thank you.
Opera 25 is a bit faster when doing the speed test you suggested:
Using Oakla:With 12.16 download speed was 5.88 Mbps.
With 25 it was 6.22 Mbps.I took the fastest results out of 5 tests of each.
Maybe a good idea to watch HD streams and download large files in 25...
(Although 12.17 is plenty fast enough for me as a simple home user. And I like the shorter time it takes to get to my default home page in that oldie but goodie.)
-
A Former User last edited by
I use Opera 11 to watch movies.
I'll tell you what? My broadband is ~20Mb/s, but it's up to the server where the videofile is if I will actually watch or just wait for buffering. Count the actual path to that pile, of course: approximately at the same time and of similar quality files may load drastically different.
So what Opera actually does I don't know, but I doubt that matters about streams. -
lodestone last edited by
You are right. I just tested my Internet speed again. This time in 12.17 it was 5.81 and in the 25 it was 5.95.
For some to me unknown reason each browser version connected to a different Oakla host. I guess that also influences it.
I live 4 km from the exchange center -or whatever that is called in English- which means that my ISP cannot deliver the full 20 Mbps I would get if I lived closer to that center. There is no glass-fiber cable in my vicinity yet.
It's fast enough for me. So no problem.
-
blackbird71 last edited by adminTo repeat and revise a question I first asked several hours ago: is this present Opera 25 update to Presto Opera being selectively pushed via Presto Opera's auto-updater? There are two user comments in this forum that strongly indicate that interpretation:
https://forums.opera.com/post/54173
and
https://forums.opera.com/post/53387
(the latter dating from 8 October)
Both comments indicate that Opera 25 auto-upgraded an Opera 12.xx installation, but at least to some extent, without asking user agreement.To that question, I now add a second question: did this auto-updating process selectively start prior to the 15 October annoucement appearing in this thread?
-
lindseyoconnor last edited by
Today a popup asked if I wanted to update to the latest version of Opera. I said no. When I next turned on the computer - it was updated without my permission.
Also now my Opera browser won't run in a sandbox, which now puts my computer at risk of malware if I continue to use Opera. When I click on Opera to run in the sandbox it won't pull up the usual start page and won't allow me to go to any websites. When I open it outside the sandbox, suddenly everything's fine.
Please can anyone tell me how to run this new version in a sandbox? I have a new computer and I really don't want malware (which happens even with a good anti-virus program). And why on earth would Opera try to prevent us from using a sandbox???????
I tried to restore to a previous version but it said it couldn't find a previous version (I don't really understand that since Opera only downloaded 25 today. So second question - does anyone know how to get the previous version in some other way?
I'm not very savvy with computer things - and would very much appreciate any help anyone could give. Thanks.
-
biocomp last edited by
I like that.
However, I would add the ability to change the thumbnails in the photo (as in favorite). Because now my home page looks like - it's hard to fathom.
Illegible.
http://acid19.linuxpl.com/neotech/OPERA/zonk.PNG -
biocomp last edited by
Some internet with logo. And some of the thumbnails. As here.
http://acid19.linuxpl.com/neotech/OPERA/ok.PNG
or
http://acid19.linuxpl.com/neotech/OPERA/ok2.PNGA simple example:
http://acid19.linuxpl.com/neotech/OPERA/example.png -
-
Deleted User last edited by
Also the new speed-dial is crap, many websites logo do not appear and make it extremely hard to identify different sites on speed dial. Concentrate on fixing core features that people are screaming for instead of breaking things that people are happy with.
-
not-a-dodo last edited by
ok, this is an open source free program.... thank you. BUT how do I remove the new STUPID STUPID SPEED DIAL, thanks for messing up my very efficient system of folders etc.
Good question someone asked before why not fixed problems people are complaining about eg the importing of from other browsers etc.
WHO IN THE WORLD thought up this stupid SPEED DIAL, especially as there doesnt appear to be anyway to get rid of it.
CAN I go back to an earlier version of OPERA, I AM NOT IMPRESSED WITH BEING FORCED TO HAVE SPEED DIAL, I am not a 3 year old that needs its nose wiped regularly and am comfortable with the way I set up my browser TO SUIT ME... not to suit OPERA.
PLEASE advise is there anyway to contact OPERA apart from the bug section..... really peeved. and yes I AM SHOUTING MY FRUSTRATION.
OPERA has had so many glitches of the past few months with crashes, flash crashes, extension crashes, that I am seriously thing of removing it, WHY FIX SOMETHING THAT IS NOT BROKE and WHY TAKE AWAY OUR CHOICE.
NICE ONE..... and blow for freedom of choice
-
A Former User last edited by admin
Originally posted by Blackbird:
<blockquote>
To repeat and revise a question I first asked several hours ago: is this present Opera 25 update to Presto Opera being selectively pushed via Presto Opera's auto-updater? There are two user comments in this forum that strongly indicate that interpretation:https://forums.opera.com/post/54173
15195042
and
https://forums.opera.com/post/53387
(the latter dating from 8 October) Both comments indicate that Opera 25 auto-upgraded an Opera 12.xx installation, but at least to some extent, without asking user agreement.
To that question, I now add a second question: did this auto-updating process selectively start prior to the 15 October annoucement appearing in this thread?</blockquote>
I'm a happy user of Opera 11 and an unhappy user of Windows XP.
As Opera Presto and Opera Blink are indeed different browsers, I neither need to abandon MY Opera nor clutter my operating system with yet another browser - as I'm about to use it up as it is.
Am I under threat to get forced to "update" to the new browser with the same name or not? My browser's set NOT to upgrade, but... -
-
A Former User last edited by admin
I have never used Opera 12 - I started in Opera at version 15, having previously used mainly Firefox - which I still use for some purposes.
Here is what is wrong with all Opera 15+ (Chromium) versions- Too few settings are available for changing things
- No Print Preview, which means you can't get a page to print how you want it - as a result I always access certain sites through Firefox because I have work-related things I need to print from them
- Alt-D does various things, doesn't always take you to the address bar so you can start typing a URL. I use my browsers fast and I don't want to have to think about where I am before I press Alt-D
- Opera Turbo comes on without warning, and as far as I know cannot be blocked from doing so; the result being that I find I can't access web pages, and then after a while, sometimes a long while, having tried Firefox, I suddenly think "I wonder if Turbo is on"
- In the very latest versions I keep getting a pull down Opera menu appearing in front of other applications after I have used Alt-Tab
- Lack of a Bugzilla style interactive community bug reporting system - as a result there is no way of knowing whether Opera is listening to your concerns
I agree about the settings and I've started a thread about it as it isn't clear to me that this has been satisfactorily answered...
https://forums.opera.com/topic/5728/advanced-options/1 -
A Former User last edited by
not-a-dodo seriously, calm down. If you don't like Opera, use another browser. Also 'and blow for freedom of choice'??? Its a FREE browser ffs, not your civil right!
-
edouardlabatut last edited by
I like that Opera 25, but please bring us back Opera link !!! Lots of your users !!!
-
-
