Opera 10.0 Alpha 1

[Rapier]

Changelog:

• Presto 2.2 Engine
  
• Performance boost
  
• 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
  
• Auto-update
  
• Inline spelling checker
  
• Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
  
• Widget Improvements on Linux
  

Download:

Windows

Windows (Classic Installer)

Macintosh

Macintosh (Intel Only)

Unix

A hell of a lot information on the new engine on the desktop blog

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/...0-alpha-is-here

[RainArt]

Opera is the best.

Thank you.

[Rix]

Thanks

[Napalm Frog]

Note: DO NOT install it over your 9.x install... It screws everything up, lol. I guess they changes some of the structure behind all of the customization files or something. However, the program is actually running quite great (aside from obvious alpha glitches which don't impede my browsing).

[villiansv]

Note: DO NOT install it over your 9.x install... It screws everything up, lol. I guess they changes some of the structure behind all of the customization files or something. However, the program is actually running quite great (aside from obvious alpha glitches which don't impede my browsing).

It upgraded just fine for me, and I have customized pretty much everything. Vista x64, NOT using the classic installer.

Gmail and Facebook seem snappier, too, and at least for my laptop it's shaved a second off the sunspider test results.

[Rix]

How did you upgrade? It doesn't give me an option to do so.

[Rappy Veteran]

Is it really hitting 100/100 on the Acid test?

I might upgrade later tho I hate installing alphas.

[-KJ]

Thanks for the update! Time to give the new Opera a spin.

[red.]

Installed it at work and it's performing pretty well. Although i tried playing a video on gamersyde and it just kept stopiing after 4 seconds but it worked in the older Opera. Scroll Marker seems to be on by default and i hadn't heard of it before but it seems quite useful.

[villiansv]

How did you upgrade? It doesn't give me an option to do so.

Choose custom install and direct it to install to your old opera folder. It will say it's upgrading.

[Dogan]

Just installed it, and it is indeed fast. (Y) Got 100/100 in Acid3 as well.

Works surprisingly good for an Alpha :s

[villiansv]

OK, here's something interesting. Running the Sunspider benchmark with Opera 10 Alpha and a Chromium build from today, I get:

Opera - 4442ms - Link to result

Chromium - 1398ms - Link to result

OK, V8 is as fast as we'd expect it to.

However, if I take a stopwatch, from the moment I click "Start test" to the display of the results, Opera takes 2min20sec, while Chromium takes 4min10sec. Did this twice, same results. Way to go synthetic benchmarking vs real-world applications :-). Joking aside, do others see similar results or is this just me and my setup?

Machine is a laptop, Celeron M 550 (2 GHz single-core), 2GB RAM, Vista x64.

Edit: I should add that Opera uses more CPU than Chromium while running the test, 30% vs 10-15% CPU usage I'd say.

[Jase]

Downloading for OS X.. will let you know how this goes :)

[x-byte]

Changelog:

• Presto 2.2 Engine
  
• Performance boost
  
• 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
  
• Auto-update
  
• Inline spelling checker
  
• Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
  
• Widget Improvements on Linux
  

Finally

Thanks for the heads up. Downloading now!

Is it really hitting 100/100 on the Acid test?

Yes

Edited December 4, 2008 by x-byte

[ViperAFK]

FINALLY an inline spell checker!

[x-byte]

FINALLY an inline spell checker!

Yea, it's only for that I have Firefox installed at all :)

[tsupersonic]

The auto update? That's not a new feature, it was in 9.x

[exit]

Latest Changes:

Presto 2.2 Engine

Performance boost

100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test

Auto-update

Inline spelling checker

Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days

Widget Improvements on Linux

Acid 3 100

[megamanXplosion]

Opera 9.x does not auto-update. It simply notifies you of available updates, which you install manually. Now, Opera will ask if you want to upgrade, and you say yes, and it does the work for you.

[Rix]

Aww i wish i didn't update my Opera 9.6 now, I can't see no text on my tooltips

[ring0]

aaaaaaaaaaaalways throw your current opera dir into a zip/rar before you upgrade. always always always.

also, i installed it over 9.62 and everything is running nicely. lovin' it so far.

[dreamz Veteran]

wow, it is quite a bit faster. this is really solid for an alpha.

[dreamz Veteran]

threads merged

[red.]

Aww i wish i didn't update my Opera 9.6 now, I can't see no text on my tooltips

Yeah i'm getting that too when using any skin other than the default one so i'm having to use the default at the moment but i prefer the native.

[guru]

Finally

+1

better late than never..