Opera 10 beta adds a feature which interested me - Opera Turbo, which apparently speeds up page loading on slower connections.
Not much info is given, so had a look - all it does is use Opera's compression proxy server, which compresses HTML (and probably other text) with the typical deflate method (if they're already compressed, I'm guessing it probably bypasses it) and re-renders images to a lower quality.

Pretty much a basic proxy with some extra things - I had hoped that they would be able to use some better proprietary methods (such as pack everything in a web page together to avoid the overhead of extra connections, or use some non-web-standard compression technique).

I guess it works, though I'm a little dubious over how well their proxies go if it starts getting popular.

What's perhaps more useful is that it can be used as a decent proxy server, so if you want to hide your IP and do some dodgy stuff, quickly do it now before it gets abused (and soon becomes blocked by every site) :P

krystabegnalie Wrote:hmm that's a neat feature in opera, can i still download some big stuff there just like in firefox?

I don't know what you exactly mean, but I don't see why not.