Windows, Linux and Mac can now tune into Opera 10

Opera Turbo and refreshed UI come to browser

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By Jessica Dolcourt, 1 September 2009 11:38

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The Opera 10 browser is now ready to download for Windows, Linux and Mac three months after the beta first emerged.

In the final build of the cross-platform browser Opera Turbo, the browser's much-publicised compression engine for slow-poke connections, remains a feature highlight. Opera claims that Opera Turbo runs the browser up to eight times faster on suffering connections than do competing browsers.

The refreshed user interface is also noteworthy. Joining the new default skin (changed from version 9.6), are changes to tab bar behaviour. The conventional tabs double as thumbnail images. Double-click the thin grey bar below the tabs (indicated by dots), or click and drag to expand open tabs into preview windows that you can navigate by clicking among them.

The Opera 10 browser is now ready to download for Windows, Linux and Mac (photo credit: Opera)

Other enhancements include an expanded Speed Dial (a feature that has later been adopted and adapted in Google's Chrome browser) that shows more commonly visited web pages than in previous Opera browsers. You're also able to customise it with a background picture. You'll see that spell check will be applicable to any text field (for 51 languages), and that Opera's incorporated email client takes a page from Google's books by threading email conversations.

Developers get access to a newer version of Opera Dragonfly, the publisher's online development tools, but everyone can benefit from the speedier rendering engine that, according to Opera, makes version 10 up to 40 per cent faster than version 9.6 - before switching on Turbo's compression.

Despite all the additions that Opera hopes will keep Opera 10 competitive, there are still two notable omissions for this final release. The first is Opera Unite, which uses the browser as a web server for sharing content with others. The second is the Carakan JavaScript engine that promises to process JavaScript about 2.5 times as fast as the engine used in Opera 10 alpha.

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