Opera 10.5 Beta Released

The Opera desktop team has released Opera 10.5 beta for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The first beta release incorporates “new features, stability improvements, and a security fix implemented during the Opera 10.50 pre-alpha release cycle”. Mac and Unix versions are currently in the alpha development phase but the team promised to deliver beta releases for those operating systems as soon as possible as well.

Opera 10.5 comes with many new features and improvements over previous Opera releases including

• Better integration with the Windows operating system (Aero Glass, Aero Peek, Jumplists)
• Opera Carakan JavaScript engine for reduced memory usage and superior performance
• Opera Presto 2.5 rendering engine that supports new CCS2.1, CSS3, HTML5 elements
• Opera Vega graphics library
• Opera Widgets for Desktop which allows widgets to be run even if the web browser is closed.
• Private browsing
• Web Storage
• Web SQL Database

The Opera 10.5 Windows changelog lists all the improvements and changes in detail.

Opera 10.5 passes the Acid 3 test with a score of 100/100 just like the latest version of the Google Chrome 5 browser. It also beats the latest Google Chrome 5 development release in the JavaScript Sunspider benchmark by 353ms to 369ms on our test system.

The new geolocation feature is not enabled in this beta release of Opera 10.5 as the developer’s need to “iron out the last details” before it will be integrated.

Opera 10.5 Beta for Windows can be downloaded from the official Opera website.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday February 11, 2010 -
Tags:Opera, opera 10, opera beta, opera update

Responses so far:

1. NR says:

   February 11, 2010 at 6:08 pm

   good improvements i like it

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2. Saurabh says:

   February 11, 2010 at 7:27 pm

   Looks like they are on high speed to release the 10.5 version before March 17, for the browser ballot.

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3. sunkumarspace says:

   February 21, 2010 at 4:28 pm

   good imporvement

   Reply