"Opera Software announced a new and retooled version of their browser in February, and demonstrated it during Mobile World Congress. The Opera browser beta is live in the Play Store. It's a free download for just about any Android device, so get to it." The first Opera browser with WebKit.
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Member since:
2011-02-11
It's actually quite fast. I've always found Chrome for Android to be a bit laggy but this beta doesn't lag, even on complex pages.
Sites that look at the user agent-string detects the beta as Chrome 25.
Despite being based on Chrome 25 it doesn't seem to have the font rendering bug that a lot of android users are suffering from.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=52248
Other issues are inherited from chrome though, sometimes font sizes are a bit screwy for example.
The UI is almost exactly like Chrome for android but it has a opera-menu and no side-swipe gestures.
Tab switching is annoying and requires three taps (one on the tab-button, one to select a tab and one to maximize it). Why not just put a tab bar on top like doplhin?
Member since:2012-08-12
It definately seems to be using the Chromium code, as I have found bugs that are only in Chrome, not in the stock browser or WebKit-browsers on iOS.
This is a promising beta. I hope they don't lag behing Chromium so that when bugs are fixed in Chromium we have to wait a long time for Opera.
Member since:
2012-03-14
Member since:
2006-05-09
As a long time Opera fan, I'm looking forward to use the new WebKit-based Opera betas in the computers I use.
If Opera replaces its HTML engine and JS engine to WebKit and V8 but they keep all the other functionality (UI, extensions, opera turbo, opera link, dragonfly, etc.) I will be very very satisfied.
Member since:
2009-02-11
Dragonfly is gone (https://twitter.com/runeh/status/301616059729969152)
I'm probably sadder about dragonfly than presto actually.
