Opera Turbocharges Opera Turbo

By | April 11, 2011


Opera Turbocharged

Now here is something for the cheerleaders.

Web site compression technology, Opera Turbo, has just received a significant upgrade which will certainly improve your browsing experience.

Thanks to WebP compression, JPEG images not only do look better now but also take less time to load (see picture above).

When comparing both, old and new Opera Turbo versions, it’s hard not to notice the difference.

According to the test results (Old Opera Turbo vs. New Opera Turbo), performance improved by up to 260%.

Opera Turbo Turbocharged

Changelog

Added WebP compression as a replacement for JPEG
More efficient, and fewer, network connections
Faster secure connections (SSL)
Bugfixes


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Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

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  1. mr.lutze says:
    April 11, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    Interesting, I wonder if they can do the same (or maybe they already did?) with Opera Mini compression.

    • Xxx says:
      April 12, 2011 at 1:29 am

      Servers used for Opera Turbo and Opera Mini are practically the same, so Mini will benefit of this too

  2. RamaSubbu_SK says:
    April 11, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    Wow!! Opera Rocks!!

  3. RamaSubbu_SK says:
    April 11, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    Wow!! Opera Rocks!!

  4. Anonymous says:
    April 11, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    The best just got better….

  5. Heath says:
    April 11, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    Huge improvement. Perhaps I’ll try using Turbo more. I’ll need to see if its actually an improvement on my desktop in speed.

  6. Anonymous says:
    April 12, 2011 at 7:29 am

    I can see it “Try Opera with the New and Improved Turbo Engine. Guaranteed to get you with the crappy internet connection browsing again”

  7. Chris says:
    April 12, 2011 at 7:48 am

    Nice, could they use WebP compression to create a new compression standard for images in general? To substitute jpeg for example…

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