You really start to feel just how huge and bloated a lot of web pages have become when you get a mobile broadband dongle and are charged £15 per GB by Vodafone.

You really start to feel just how huge and bloated a lot of web pages have become when you get a mobile broadband dongle and are charged £15 per GB by Vodafone. One popular British forum site has some pages weighing in at upwards of 1MB each! Opera 10 attempts to remedy this with its "Turbo" function - if you've used Opera Mini on a mobile phone, it's basically this for the desktop browser, going through a proxy to shrink images and strip out unnecessary stuff. It's worth having Opera installed on your laptop just for this - on average, it's been shrinking pages by around 3x for me. A brilliant and unique feature.