Opera 10 beta with Turbo compression announced

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Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(06/04/09, 8:15 AM GMT)

Oslo, Norway -- Opera today released the first beta of Opera 10, the newest version of the company's industry-defining Web browser. Opera 10 beta sports a surprising array of new features, a fresh look and feel, and enhanced speed and performance. It is completely free for Windows, Mac and Linux users from http://www.opera.com/next/.

Using state-of-the-art compression technology, Opera Turbo unclogs network connections, delivering 3x to 4x the speed of slower connections and can offer broadband-like speeds on dial-up.

The tab bar is now resizeable, but with a twist. Pull down the tab bar (or double-click the handle) to reveal full thumbnails of all your open tabs. The browser’s Speed Dial can now be personalized to a variety of display options from large screen monitors to small mobile screens.

The new Opera browser comes standard with an e-mail client, newsfeed readers and BitTorrent support within the browser. In Opera 10, users can now easily choose to use a variety of Web-mail providers, online feed readers or other BitTorrent clients as the default choice.

Opera 10 beta also improves upon existing features in the Opera 10 alpha. The inline spell-checker now supports 51 languages, using the popular open source Hunspell dictionary format. Opera 10 beta also updates automatically, although you can choose to allow completely automatic updates or to be notified when an update is ready to install.

The e-mail client is also improved with rich text editing including inline images, styled text, links, and full HTML. It is also possible to have Opera automatically delete e-mails from the users POP server after a specified amount of time to keep inboxes from getting clogged.

To learn more, go to www.opera.com.

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