Because of the news, I downloaded and tried out Opera again last night. It was the first browser I've switched to from IE6, before Chrome came and swept me over with its minimalisic UI and amazing omnibar.

There is still one thing I miss from Opera to this day.

Pretty much instant go-back/go-forward times. Go to any static page, then another, then back and forward is nearly instant in Opera.

In Chrome, pages get reloaded and can sometimes take from 1 to 5+ seconds if some server lagged out. Which is ridiculous if you just want to go back to where you _just_ were a millisecond ago, because something caught your attention after u had already clicked on some link. Why don't they keep these things cached?

So my question is: is that a browser-level feature or rendering engine-level one? Will Opera preserve it? Will it finally come to other browsers?

Note: Safari has recently added the two-finger swipe that reveals the previous/next pages. However, they're using cached images while the actual page gets loaded. Better than nothing, but I still prefer Opera's true blazing speed here.