Save mobile data / Speed up browsing in Opera 15

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so I get a measly 2 GBs of data a month for Internet browsing. I generally burn through it rather quickly though but not anymore.

Opera 15 has a feature called "Offroad Mode" That gets web pages compressed by up to 80 percent by Operas servers before its sent to you. This saves incredible amount of bandwidth for browsing and speeds up slow connections quite considerably.

Opera 15 looks and feels like Chrome. So if thats what you are used too its very easy to switch. It even uses the webkit rendering engine so pages are exactly the same in chrome.

This "Off Road" feature is great an I'm surprised that it isnt more of a hit in South Africa with our expensive data and sometimes slow mobile connections.

http://www.opera.com/computer -- Download Link
http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/02/operas-new-show-chromium-based-opera-15-browser-hits-pc-and-mac/
 
I downloaded the Windows version and installed it on my work PC today. Because we are still on XP and old version of IE, some of our browser bases systems have not been playing nicely ... so for the one I use IE , the other Firefox. Now with Opera 15 I only have to sue one browswer. :-)
 
i am loving opera 15 on my phone and nexus tablet. on my tablet...it has saved me 87% on my data usage so used 6.5 meg out of 47meg. i do have it on most aggresive setting but if i want to.see a pic in high quality it is easy enough. hope they bring out opera 15 soon for linix.
 
Ockie said:
hope they bring out opera 15 soon for linix.
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Won't be a 15 for linux, or a 16. they are already on 17 for the developer track and still no linux.... By the time they bring it out people would have forgotten about it already :D
 
Will have to install opera again. Last time this damn iPhone didn't want to give it a data connection. Default browser ran fine but opera couldn't get a connection. Fsuckn apple.
 
ponder said:
Won't be a 15 for linux, or a 16. they are already on 17 for the developer track and still no linux.... By the time they bring it out people would have forgotten about it already :D
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Well...i suppose i mean a version that has got off road mode. It does seem to be much more aggresive than the old turbo modeon desktop version. I
 
Wow, this sounds really cool. I will definitely give Opera a try, hell, I will use it each time my 3G Connection is being a bitch
 
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