Opera goes 10 (Alpha)

For all those people who've been waiting on Opera, to throw an answer to the newly released FireFox 3, like me, it's great news. So rejoice my friends: Opera is going 10.

Opera 10 will be using the new Presto 2.2 as the rendering engine, and promises to imporve it's performance on resource intensive pages like GMail and FaceBook.

Also, Opera 10 alpha is also able to score a perfect 100/100 on the Acid 3 test, the only browser to be able to do so till now.

                                           

Other features include:

• In-Line Spell Check- Opera will flag mis-spelt words
• Auto-Update- Configure it to update and install without notifying
• Full HTML Format supporting Opera Mail- Customize your E-Mails

The Alpha build is up for grabs here. You can also get the overview of the new things in this.

You can read more about Opera 10 here.

This one's an alpha build and it showcases the Presto 2.2 rendering engine. The new features will be available in the Beta Build.

I, for one, am waiting eagerly for the Final release. It's such a wonderful browser. Once I got used to it, I couldn't switch over to any other browser.