I've been using Opera 10.11 on two different computer systems, two different locations (work & home), and two different Slackware versions (13 & 13.1 current).
Opera 10.11 runs very quickly on both.

After upgrading to Opera 10.60, I now find that linking to new web pages takes 5 to 10 seconds, but returning to a previous page is almost instantaneous.

I've tried installing 10.60 using slackbuilds and Opera's installer - both give the same results.

I've since reverted to Opera 10.11.

Any ideas why it is so slow to open web pages?

Opera 10.60 for Win7 works great, so what happened to the Linux version?

Check /etc/resolv.conf is pointing at your fastest dns servers.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog.../network-fixes
Edit: New build posted today:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog...07/09/maccrash

Thanks for the replies.
I tried the beta 10.70 and it may be a bit faster than 10.60, but still not as fast as 10.11.
I'll keep experimenting, but I wonder if all linux users aslo have the same problem.

So, if the data is in cache, the re-draw speed is fine, but getting a page over the network is slow.

DNS problems seem plausible (have you got measurements, using dig or some more graphical utility?) as would ipv6. Problems with pop-ups are often problematic, given that a web site owner often is concerned about how fast the basic site can work, but can't do anything about linked advertising, so check that out (try toggling pop-up blacking to see if that makes a difference).

Are you allowing enough connections?

Also try turning off the opera turbo feature; it may well work well on slow links, but on faster links the latency in finding out whether a 'turbo' version is available possibly outweighs the (virtual) bandwidth gain.

My guess is that its a set-up problem, rather than a 'the linux version can't work quickly' problem; remember that defaults for Linux networking aren't necessarily the same as for Windows, so, in corner cases, err, issues, can be expected even if both code bases are 'good'.

Thanks for the help.
If anyone reading this forum has tried opera 10.60, can you please report how it went?
So far, no one has written that Opera 10.60 works great with Linux X.
I've always installed the default Opera configurations, and they have worked OK for the last 10 years or so.

I use 10.60on Slackware64-current. I do not customize much, and I only use it really for a few websites that don't like FF. I don't have any problems and it seems fine. Remember, though, I am not a heavy user.

I've been using Opera since version 5, and I liked every release except 10.60.
The interface on Linux looks bad and the scroll is sluggish. I'm happy with some things but these two are not good.
One minor thing I miss is the ability to drag a tab to the 'manage bookmarks' window, but I can live with that :-)

With a few exceptions, opera 10.60 works well for me on Linux.

The business with bookmarks strikes me as step backwards; there seems to be a deliberate attempt to make it difficult to 'double bookmark' a page. As, in certain circumstances, I do deliberately double bookmark pages, this is a negative, to me, although other people might want this. And the ctrl-D option (bookmark pages) is just screwed up (for me, on a laptop, with one of those somewhat inaccurate track pads...you just cannot get 4 levels down without a slip (with a real mouse, it would be somewhat better) and the menu columns are all over the screen).

The old dialogue box, which still pops up on 'single bookmarking' a page (after taking appreciable time to check that it isn't double bookmarking) still works well, but you aren't allowed to use it if you already have a bookmark for that page.

The 'opera turbo' feature has a habit of turning itself back on (and then issuing a message saying that Opera turbo, something that I hadn't wanted, is unavailable to me).

Rendering of some sites has become worse; a bit like konqueror, the choice of fonts can look a little bit blocky and crude.

I've seen a couple of sites become suddenly and dramatically slow;there seems to be some incompatibility with certain sites that use third-party servers to provide advertising that I haven't got to the bottom of, but it isn't widespread.

Login to Google Mail doesn't really work correctly (but then, with the exception of Firefox, most browsers available on a Linux platform aren't supported by GMail....well there is Google Chrome of course, and I'm sure it'll be nice when its finished).

Just downloaded the new 10.61, and it very nearly matches the old 10.11 in speed.
Like always, I installed it with all default settings as set by Opera.

I plan on giving it a good workout before switching over though.

Using 10.61 here too since yesterday. I'm mostly happy with it.

There's still an issue with the popup boxes that you get when hovering over a thread in LQ leaving black lines when you scroll with the mouse wheel, but if you're running under compositing it doesn't show them, so I have a work around (as long as I'm running something that supports compositing). They also seem to have fixed some of the other bugs that were annoying me in 10.60.


Anyone actually played with the Opera Unite stuff that comes with it?

I switched to Chrome after using Opera 10.60, I was so disappointed with it. I found it didn't handle flash well at all, and just felt slow and clunky in general. I switched back to 10.11 for a while, which then kept annoyingly prompting me to update to 10.60 each session.

After trying the Windoze version of 10.60 (much much better) I get the impression that linux isn't very high on Opera's agenda, so I decided to switch.


edit - I tried Opera Unite GazL, but I really couldn't see much point in it. It's easy to set up (assuming you have mates willing to do the same), but it was slow at transferring files, and relied on you both/all being online at the same time, and willing to have your bandwidth eaten up at any moment by someone suddenly downloading some of your files.