Opera 10 arrives

The latest version of the Opera browser was announced yesterday. The browser Opera 10.0 named Peregrine, with its new Presto 2.2 rendering engine, was released in Alpha format for initial testing by its community of users. Opera traditionally doesn’t have much market share in comparison with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox. Now with the launch of Google Chrome it faces even more competition. However, the browser does have a loyal following and with its variety of market leading features it has led the field in terms of browser functionality for some time. Many of the features of the major browsers that have been launched with much fanfare over the last few years were in place sometime before in Opera.

The latest version of the Opera browser has been launched with a performance boost, 100/100 on the Acid3 test, and a variety of improvements to its built in Opera mail client.
Opera mail is a relatively unknown mail client, which boast some impressive features and is in many ways much quicker and easier to use than its Microsoft competitors.

It is unlikely to make much of a ripple in the Internet Explorer and Firefox pond, but is well worth a look if you are interested in alternative browser features.