The Peregrine has left the nest!

[Giraffe]

Opera 10 Alpha is out

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog...-alpha-is-here

[Funkstar]

Using it now

Does seem faster on a couple of pages i use as a reference (the default SqueezeCenter skin for example).

I hope 10 will be more stable than 9.62 for me, it crashes a lot.

[magneticman]

9.6 crashes a lot for me too since moving to 64-bit

but wow, this seems a lot faster straight away! The webfonts function is great too, and typing this now - the spell checker is really good and quick.

opera >

*whoa the acidtest fliiiiies

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

[lodore]

woot
finally spell check!
thanks for posting.

i may install in virtual machine or something.

[0iD]

Updating now

[Funkstar]

gone back to 9.62 as i just could be aresed customising 10.0 how I have this one. I'll have another look when it goes to Beta.

Looking really good for an Alpha though.

[0iD]

When I copied my wand passwords accross it wasn't recognised.

[Giraffe]

9.6 crashes a lot for me too since moving to 64-bit

but wow, this seems a lot faster straight away! The webfonts function is great too, and typing this now - the spell checker is really good and quick.

opera >

*whoa the acidtest fliiiiies

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

mutter mutter, gribble gribble - I get 99

[Funkstar]

yup 100/100 on ACID3 for me, although the animation isn't perfectly smooth.

I re-installed the Alpha so i can play with it, but then did a repair install on 9.62 to keep it as my default browser

[Giraffe]

gone back to 9.62 as i just could be aresed customising 10.0 how I have this one. I'll have another look when it goes to Beta.

Looking really good for an Alpha though.

Yes, I know what you mean. My installation of 9.62 is highly modified so would take a lot of replicating. I don't mind copying across my modified skins etc., including SpeedDial but, as this is a new major version I don't want to carry forward the same glitches that i've been preserving since v8!

[magneticman]

opera 10 auto updates now though right?

I've customised the new one, and hopefully from now on it'll just keep updating

[Giraffe]

I'm set to manual update - I like to read about the disasters and avoid the release.

I have started to customise mine. I'm not copying over too much from 9.62 as this new version has so many changes, so it's more work than usual.
I've always waited until at least Beta/RC in the past but this one's so agile and the sites behave well that I'd like to start using it full time (9.62 has never felt right).

Also just installed FF3.1Beta for a site that deliberately won't play.

[magneticman]

it'd ask you if you want to upgrade, like firefox does i imagine.

[2Cold Scorpio]

It works pretty darn well for an alpha; I'd think its an early-to-mid beta build if I didn't know better. And its pretty fast, too. Can't wait to see the next version.

[Giraffe]

It works pretty darn well for an alpha; I'd think its an early-to-mid beta build if I didn't know better. And its pretty fast, too. Can't wait to see the next version.

You're right I've spent a few hours tweaking and adding buttons and am using as default now.

There seems to be only Hexus where I have a small problem: scroll down, go to a forum, scroll, go to a thread. When going back (using mouse buttons only) the previous pages have scrolled up again. Bit of a nuisance really. It happened with 9.5 but I can't remember how to fix it

[Giraffe]

mutter mutter, gribble gribble - I get 99

re. Acid3: got 100 by turning on animated GIFs