A very new and nice feature in Opera 10 is the ability to resize the tabs. This is where Opera does it over firefox any day. To resize the tabs just click and drag underneath the tab bar to see the difference. Even just mousing over each tab lets you preview that page.
Opera 10 has a fantastic feature could speed dial. It allows one to browse a list of favorite websites when opening up a new tab. Each dial can be customized to your favorite sites which allows for quick access without having to type the address into the address bar. A background image can also be added to speed dial and it all so has a built in search field.
Opera 10 has a new speedup tool could Turbo. It allows the user to speedup loading web pages by turning on this feature. Turbo is a compression tool that speeds up the process of data loading on a web page. Opera Turbo has three settings of Automatic which detects the network speed and if it is slow then it will be enabled. On, which is permanently on to speedup the loading pages on a slow network and Off which loads pages normally.
Opera 10 has a built in security feature to easily block a website from loading in the browser.
This can be done by going to the menu Tools > Advanced > Blocked Content.
The opera browser allows the user to create notes within the browser. To create a note just go to tools up on the menu bar, and click Notes then Add. Then type the email message or text. To email the note just double click it in the left column, then choose the default system email client. This makes a great text editor where notes can be saved to come back too.
The RSS Checker is is an excellent rss desktop widget that can show multiple feeds at one time. Just choose your favorite feeds then reload the widget and its done and updates automatically. Here is a picture of what it looks like.
Touchthesky is a detailed weather widget that sits on the desktop displaying the Forecast. It gives an easy to understand summary of the current weather in degrees C, winds, and also the high and low degrees for that day. It also shows the sunrise and sunset for that day. Here is a picture of what it looks like.
