Opera 10 has entered beta with the unstated goal of becoming more than a mere browser. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the Norwegian program hopes to become a speedy utility--Turbo-charged, in their words--that handles browsing, e-mail, RSS, and torrents with robust features.
The most obvious changes in Opera 10 are the new default skin, created by British designer Jon Hicks, and a revamped Tab bar. The skin, Opera says, will continue to evolve before Opera 10 is finalized. Double-click or pull down on the bar below the tabs and above the location bar and you get thumbnail previews of each tab. The previews are resizable, so users who want to see only a small sliver of a tab to identify it visually don't have to worry about sacrificing screen real estate. The bar doesn't remember your last position for it when manually adjusted and then closed by double-clicking, but it does remember when you restart Opera.
Opera 10 continues development of its Turbo mode, which uses proprietary compression technology to accelerate page loading. It's recommended for users in crowded Wi-Fi spots or on slow DSL lines or 56k modems, and users might even see slower page load times if they use it on a broadband connection, according to the company. According to their press release for this beta, Turbo "can offer broadband-like speeds on dial-up."
The Opera 10 beta 1 is definitely faster than its previous publicly available predecessor, the Opera 10 alpha, which in turn was dramatically faster than the most recent stable Opera, version 9.6. On a Windows XP desktop, with Service Pack 3, 2 GB of RAM, and a 2.8GHz processor, Opera 10 beta scored 5836.6 milliseconds on WebKit's SunSpider JavaScript test. The Opera 10 alpha hit 6068.7 ms on the same machine, while Opera 9.62 scored 7008.2 ms. This works out to be about 13 percent faster, although previous tests that I had done on a different computer found Opera 10 alpha to be three times faster than Opera 9.62.
Click this to download Opera 10 Beta from Yamagata FTP Server.
The most obvious changes in Opera 10 are the new default skin, created by British designer Jon Hicks, and a revamped Tab bar. The skin, Opera says, will continue to evolve before Opera 10 is finalized. Double-click or pull down on the bar below the tabs and above the location bar and you get thumbnail previews of each tab. The previews are resizable, so users who want to see only a small sliver of a tab to identify it visually don't have to worry about sacrificing screen real estate. The bar doesn't remember your last position for it when manually adjusted and then closed by double-clicking, but it does remember when you restart Opera.
Opera 10 continues development of its Turbo mode, which uses proprietary compression technology to accelerate page loading. It's recommended for users in crowded Wi-Fi spots or on slow DSL lines or 56k modems, and users might even see slower page load times if they use it on a broadband connection, according to the company. According to their press release for this beta, Turbo "can offer broadband-like speeds on dial-up."
The Opera 10 beta 1 is definitely faster than its previous publicly available predecessor, the Opera 10 alpha, which in turn was dramatically faster than the most recent stable Opera, version 9.6. On a Windows XP desktop, with Service Pack 3, 2 GB of RAM, and a 2.8GHz processor, Opera 10 beta scored 5836.6 milliseconds on WebKit's SunSpider JavaScript test. The Opera 10 alpha hit 6068.7 ms on the same machine, while Opera 9.62 scored 7008.2 ms. This works out to be about 13 percent faster, although previous tests that I had done on a different computer found Opera 10 alpha to be three times faster than Opera 9.62.
Click this to download Opera 10 Beta from Yamagata FTP Server.
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