noel alanguilan

it is  confirmed. the latest opera aces the acid3 test taking 100/100.

and its fast too. but don’t take my word for it. ars technica has a “first look” review with screenshots already.

opera 10 has just been released. i heard that it gets 100/100 on the acid3 test. i have not confirmed that though but if its true then “wow”. to put that in perspective, firefox 3.5.2 gets 93/100.

for ubuntu users, just download the .deb package and double-click on the thing once its done downloading and let the package installer perform its job. if you have an older version of opera installed it will just replace it.

ps. i like the graphic. it kind of gives you that wheeeee! feeling.

i noticed a couple of things that changed when i ugraded to ubuntu 9.04

• the menu entry of grsync was moved from applications – internet to applications – system tools
• opera disappeared. i don’t exactly know how but the .opera subdiretory with my previous settings was still there. i just had to download the latest .deb package directly from the opera website. it wasn’t in the add/remove applications program and there’s one dubious looking entry in synaptic so i decided to do a direct download.
• skype disappeared too (there’s a pattern here). so i had to download the .deb package directly from skype. because of the relative newness of ubuntu 9.04, the available versions are for ubuntu 8.10 but these should work as before.
• after ugrading to firefox 3.0.9 flash videos became choppy. i remember uninstalling the flash plugins–all of them–via synaptic. then downloading and installing the latest .deb from the adobe website. i also noticed that firefox’s memory footprint became quite a bit larger–a little over 500 megabytes in my case–especially after spending a good amount of time in javscript and ajax-heavy sites i.e. facebook.
• the booting, shutdown and login screens are new.
• when shutting down the computer there’s a new confirmation dialog box with a 60-second countdown timer confirming if you really want to shutdown or not. this also applies when you want to restart the computer.
• booting seems faster–around 20 seconds on one workstation.
• there’s a new theme called new wave which i switched to.

i’m just wondering how it performs with older computers (pentium 4, 256 meg ram). if you know, please leave a note.