5037 Opera has released Opera Version 10 Beta 3 with more enhancements, tweaks. and bugfixes, including translation into 39 languages, an option to have visual tabs to the left or right of the browser window, and a fix for a problem opening PDF files. (see the changelog in the Appendix below for a full list of changes). One of Opera 10's marquee features is the new Turbo server-side optimization and compression technology that speeds up data transfer on low-bandwidth connections by reducing the amount of data that needs to be downloaded in order to view Web pages by up to 80%, providing significant improvement in browsing speeds over dialup or crowded Wi-Fi in a café or browsing through your mobile phone while commuting.

I began using an Alpha build of Opera 10 Turbo back in March and the beta 1 version since early June, and can confirm that it's a whole bunch faster than any other browser over my poky rural dialup Internet connection. I downloaded Opera 10.0b3 Friday evening and have been using it for production work and general browsing over the weekend. The changes and enhancements are mostly "under-the-hood" but the slick smoothness and speed are there and if anything improved. I had found betas 1 and 2 very stable and reliable over the past several months (as was the alpha build before that), and so far that has carried over.

Opera 10 beta (codenamed Peregrine) also includes an array of new features, a fresh look by designer Jon Hicks, a more refined feel, enhanced speed and performance, and is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux systems.

New in Opera 10 is a resizable tab bar. Just drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your open Web pages. You can now also customize Opera's Speed Dial feature to suit your taste by using the Configure button to choose from 4 to 25 favorite Web sites for quick access every time you open a new tab. You can also add a custom background so you feel right at home (some downloadable alternate Opera skins also include Speed Dial backgrounds).

Web integration

If you use a Webmail service as your default mail client, you can tell Opera 10 to do the same. Clicking on email addresses or the Send by Mail in Opera will open the compose page from your Web mail service provider. The same is true with the Feed reader you can now also add any RSS/atom feed into your favorite online feed reader from within Opera 10.

Resizable search field

Get a clearer view of what you are about to search by simply expanding the size of the search field to accommodate more than two words of space.

40% Faster Engine And Cutting-edge Web Standards Support

Opera's developers have optimized the new Opera Presto 2.2 engine in Opera 10 to be much faster on resource intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook. In addition, with an Acid3 100/100 score (reportedly the only browser besides Safari 4 to achieve that distinction), Web Fonts support, RGBA/HSLA color and SVG improvements, Opera 10 beta is ready for the next generation of Web applications.

Inline spell-check

Write freely in your Facebook wall, blog or Webmail. Opera 10 beta underlines any misspelled words. By using the Hunspell dictionary format, you can be sure you'll always have the most complete and updated list of all languages.

Auto-update

Opera 10 beta makes it easy to stay up to date with the latest version. With Auto-Update you will be able to choose completely automatic updates or have the option of being notified when an update is ready to install.

Email Client Built In

Opera Mail can now send rich text messages including inline images, styled text, links, and/or custom HTML. You can also choose to have messages deleted from your POP server after a preset number of days, to help you keep control of your hosted server space.

Automated Crash Reporting

Opera is designed to restart and recover all your tabs if a crash occurs. But, now you can easily send us a crash report to help us continue to make Opera the most stable browser around.

Opera Dragonfly evolved

Opera's Web developer debugging tool is now even better, allowing you to edit the DOM and inspect HTTP headers.


Two installer options:

Intel, English
8.4 MB

Universal Binary, English
14.6 MB

For more information, visit:
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Download:
http://www.opera.com/download/?ver=10.00b3#brand

Opera 10 is currently in Beta 3 stage. Opera Unite Labs releases are currently on a parallel development track, you can learn more about them at:
http://unite.opera.com/

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Appendix - Opera 10.0 beta 3 for Mac changelog

Changes since Opera 10 beta 2

User Interface

Added:

• Translated into 39 languages including English


• Belorussian


• British English


• Bulgarian


• Chinese Simplified


• Chinese Traditional


• Croatian


• Czech


• Danish


• Dutch


• Estonian


• Finnish


• French


• Canadian French


• Frisian


• German


• Greek


• Hindi


• Hungarian


• Indonesian


• Italian


• Japanese


• Korean


• Lithuanian


• Macedonian


• Norwegian Bokmål


• Norwegian Nynorsk


• Polish


• Portugese


• Brazilian Portugese


• Romanian


• Russian


• Serbian


• Slovak


• Spanish


• Latino Spanish


• Swedish


• Turkish


• Ukrainian

Improvements

• Visual tabs now available on the left or right side of the browser window


• Further tab improvements with better attention state design


• Spellchecker menu item moved to Preferences > Advanced > Browsing dialog box


• Additional debug skin tooltip information: skin information of the parent element, plus what skin type is active (top, left, right, bottom or default)


• Mac skin top dragbar knob now repeated on left/right sides

Fixed

• Problem when trying to open a .pdf file


• Problem when saving a session


• Panel buttons for the Mac skin

Mail, News, Chat

Fixed

• System selected fonts now used for HTML compose font selector


• Mail column header alignment

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