December 20, 2009
6:00 am
Opera 10.5: Windows 7 integration, per-tab private browsing
Opera dev team revealed that a special pre-alpha build of Opera 10.5 codenamed Evenes, will be unveiled on 22nd Dec. However, an internal old build has already been leaked. Opera termed the release as “Speed,” and the benchmarking of leaked build proves that general browsing with 10.5 is reasonably fast. Here’re some features:
- Updated skin: Similar to Google Chrome, the tab bar has been merged with the titlebar, thus giving more space to work.
- Takes advantage of Windows 7 features like jumplists and taskbar thumbnails.
- Private browsing in Opera don’t ask you to open a separate window to enter private browsing mode. Opera supports per-tab private browsing.
- There’re UI enhancements, interfering dialogue boxes have been done away e.g. wand and find dialogue boxes now integrated into the UI. Similar to Safari’s search, Find now dims the rest of the page while highlighting your query.
- 10.5 ships with new rendering engine (Presto 2.5.18). However, the Carakan (Opera’s new JavaScript rendering engine) is still missing.
You can download leak build here
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I'm Opera browser addict, have been using it for past 9 years. I had even purchased it when it was not free.
The leaked Opera v10.5 alpha looks awesome, but the real build will be more tweaked for speed with native JSON, etc...
"1. Updated skin: Similar to Google Chrome, the tab bar has been merged with the titlebar, thus giving more space to work."
Please do 10-seconds of online research before flubbing the facts.
The streamlined UI was available in Opera v10.0 last year...and just like Speed Dial and integrated search bar, Chrome lifted this from Opera and took faux-credit. There are a myriad of features that were introduced & are hidden in Opera waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.
Try Opera and you won't go back... ;)
Download here: http://hotfile.com/dl/21281063.....n.msi.html