Opera 10.50 | Windows ≈ Fail
Since I have cheered before Opera 10 (it was in fact Opera 10.10, as I have just found out), and it had became my 'browser-of-choice' I would have to make some comments on the upcoming Opera 10.50 beta:
And among the list of exciting features:
- It crashes uexpectedly about each 5 or 10 minutes: Finally a beta that lives to its name.
- The widgets could run stand-alone outside from Opera, and they could be installed as applications: Oh Wait... And each application takes 2.1Mb of hard drive. (Whatever forces you to use the clumsy and painful Install/Remove Applications screen sucks).
- And finally, the Menu Bar is gone. Oh great! Just like Google Chrome. Because users mainly browse. Because whenever they browse, they need more screen space. Maybe users just get fed up and stop using your shitty browser and move on. (Why radical UI changes are never optional?)
So far, (specially because of feature #1) I have just uninstalled Opera 10.50 Beta from my computer. And in case you did not got my irony, I am not at all delighted with the new directions the application is heading to. So maybe I will choose another browser in the future, as the new version is released.
Disclaimer:
I am currently using Opera 10.50 as my main browser (in Windows). I reinstalled the application as soon as the final version was out, and all the inestability was gone. And since it works quite fine, and it's quite fast I just stuck with it from then on. Just for you to know ...
[11 March 2010]