Opera 10.50 Beta 2 released

[brentaal]

Opera 10.50 beta 2 for Windows has been released!

* Changelog since beta 1

* Download Opera 10.50 beta 2 for Windows

Beta 2 contains many significant improvements over the first beta, and we would like to thank everyone who helped us test Opera for your great work! Your invaluable feedback really does make a difference, and it helps us turn Opera into an even better browser.

For those of you who have been following the About.com Reader's Choice Awards browser vote, remember that today is the last day of voting.

We hope to have new builds ready for Unix and Mac testing shortly.

Read on for highlights and changelog since the previous Windows snapshot.

Highlights

* Skin work, and tweaked styling of internal pages (opera:* and error pages)

* Improved opera:config

* Improved overlay authentication dialogs to avoid spoofing

* Context menu fixes

* Basic Web Storage user interface

* Lots of crash fixes

* Widgets fixes

Post, Changelog & Download link @ Opera Desktop Team

Windows Setup @ ftp.opera.com

[xtrabit racing]

just tried, i dont know why but its too slow for me. waited for caching, tried re visiting cached pages but painfully slow.

PS: Nice design

[torrentthief]

Its a shame opera has no 64bit version out, it might give MS and Adobe a reason to release 64bit flash and silverlight.

[DavidM]

Will download and give it a try, I had to remove the last build because it crashed on the speed dial page. I had it set as the home page and it would crash, generate a crash page, crash as speed dial loaded and crash again. I bet it sent 5 or 6 crash logs to opera in 2 minutes.

Hope this build is better, as it's replacing FF 3.6 if it keeps moving in the right direction.

[red.]

Might try this out later. Had to remove the last one because it had memory leak problems.

[simonlang]

cool i just upgraded from beta1. :D

[Sulphy]

mmm..... tried it.... no thanks... back to chrome for me....! ;)

[x-byte]

?Just updated!

Its a shame opera has no 64bit version out, it might give MS and Adobe a reason to release 64bit flash and silverlight.

Opera's market share is too low. And there isn't really a need for 64-bit browsers.

[elantheros]

Probably the only thing holding me back from switching to Opera is that it still can't open tabs next to current, like how Firefox/Chrome does. Otherwise, I'm pretty much sold.

[Mike]

Probably the only thing holding me back from switching to Opera is that it still can't open tabs next to current, like how Firefox/Chrome does. Otherwise, I'm pretty much sold.

Opera menu -> Settings -> Preferences, "Open new tab next to active"? ;)

[villiansv]

Probably the only thing holding me back from switching to Opera is that it still can't open tabs next to current, like how Firefox/Chrome does. Otherwise, I'm pretty much sold.

prefs-advanced-tabs and check "open new tab next to active" doesn't do what you want?

[elantheros]

prefs-advanced-tabs and check "open new tab next to active" doesn't do what you want?

Unfortunately not. With that ticked, Ctrl-T to open a new blank tab also opens it next to current - it should be at the far end instead, to prevent inserting an alien tab in the middle of a bunch of related ones.

[bogas04]

Although in disguise , Opera developers are building their software more vigourously than Chrome one's and have achieved more performance too. Anyways , i still can't make myself love it.

[DavidM]

Unfortunately not. With that ticked, Ctrl-T to open a new blank tab also opens it next to current - it should be at the far end instead, to prevent inserting an alien tab in the middle of a bunch of related ones.

If you double click on the tab bar it opens it at the end, but yes ctrl+tab will open it to the right of the current tab. That's the bad thing about Opera not having extensions, in FF you can have so many tab options it's not funny. You could always request that behavior for the next version.

[Growled Member]

Off to update now. Thanks.

[Crazysah]

Much improved version for me. Thanks!

[Growled Member]

It has a better feel to it. 10.5 is going to be an awesome release for Opera, I think.

[ViperAFK]

I'm really liking 10.5 so far.

[+.Aaron Subscriber¹]

Cool, thanks. I just wish that I could get the same extentions as I have in Firefox as in Opera.

[x-byte]

Which ones would that be?

[brentaal]

Personally, I'm missing FireFTP. Is there such a feature for Opera?

[Knife Party]

new beta is going smooth so far... :D

[+Raze Subscriber²]

Opera is performing great, this beta release is operating without any issues for me (so far).

[Buendia]

If only I could have a decent ad blocker (Adblock Plus) and Flash block.

Other than that, I think it's pretty good browser.

[Nagisan]

If only I could have a decent ad blocker (Adblock Plus) and Flash block.

Other than that, I think it's pretty good browser.

Opera's ad blocker works great, only issue is you have to manually block items or download a list to block things. There is a list somewhere out there thats basically the ad blocker list for Opera, but you have to manually update it, no auto-updates.

For flash blocking, I am pretty sure you can turn off flash, or change it to a click-to-load behavior (it shows there is a flash item, but does not load it unless you click the flash item), but I never messed with it so I do not know how to use it.