A Preliminary Study of Opera 10 Alpha version: faster browsing by 30%

After two and a half years of development, the Norwegian browser Opera, known as Xiao qiling, finally launched the first Alpha test version of the new generation of Opera 10.

Opera Software said,Opera 10 is based on the new rendering engine Presto 2.2This will also be the foundation of all the Opera 10 series products in the future. Compared with Presto 9.5 introduced by Opera 2.1 in MarchBrowsing speed up by about 30%Especially when Browsing resource-sensitive pages such as Gmail and Facebook.

Opera has always adhered to its support for network standards, whileOpera 10 Alpha 1 has passed the Acid3 test and scored a full score of 100., AndSupports Web Fonts, RGBA/HSLA colors, and SVG improvementsAnd so on. In addition, the development tool Dragonfly has also been improved to better debug websites, such as editing DOM and inserting HTTP headers.

Other new features:Embedded spelling check,Automatic update and upgrade,Opera Mail supports HTML-format emails......

According to the development plan, Opera 10, the development code "Peregrine", is only used to test the new rendering engine in this year's Alpha stage. In the Beta stage of the first half of next year, new functions are gradually improved, and the final official version is released in the second half of the year.

Opera 10 Alpha 1 provides three versions: Windows, Mac, and Linux. However, it is only available in English. As it is only the first preview test version, and Opera Mail adopts a new database format, do not overwrite the installation of the Opera 9. x series. It must be separately installed in the new directory.