Jul comes early this year!

By Aleksander AasAleksander. Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:43:40 PM

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God Jul

Jul is a big thing in Norway, and a part of it is giving away gifts to the people you love. Seeing how Opera loves our users, who could possibly deserve a gift more than you? love

We have being working very hard the past few weeks to bring you something special as a holiday gift. Although we don't usually do this, we are so excited about what we are working on, that we want to give you a sneak peek. ninja

On December 22nd we will release a 10.5 pre-alpha. We don't want to say too much and ruin the gift, but expect speed.

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Sami Serolaserola Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:35:00 PM

Even more speed bigeyes

Abhinavdecodedthought Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:36:57 PM

I am already excited to know what it holds ?

dirkthetomster Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:38:24 PM

up

Alexislexiz08 Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:38:48 PM

10.5 bigeyes

Lucalucaviozzi Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:42:15 PM

omg need!!!

Pallab DeIndyan Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:42:26 PM

wow! Thanks you, thank you, thank you! That's just what I was praying for!
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/show.dml/2956477?startidx=150#comment13261081

I think it's safe to assume that O 10.5 will also include Carakran.

random414 Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:43:51 PM

22 December? This means that Santa Claus is coming early this year. bigsmile rolleyes

Tri M. NguyenTriMN Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:45:05 PM

love

Galileo Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:45:48 PM

party

Alexanderanakin-skyrunner Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:46:13 PM

I was expecting 10.2, but 10.5?!
Guys, you are SO amazing, I don't know what to say... yes

Christopher R. Halbersmachalbersma Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:47:05 PM

God I love speed.

tomassplatch Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:47:09 PM

wow, cool! It's been long time since I haven't been looking forward to Christmas like this. yes

zoquete Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:50:41 PM

'< auuuuuuuuuuuuu

Ottoottouk Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:01:13 PM

va va vooooommmmmm.....

yes

Martin RauscherHades32 Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:01:19 PM

WOW! Thank you soo much! Even Presto 2.4 without HW acceleration and without Carakan would be a great present!

But I hope you know, that nobody will want to test 10.2 Snapshots thereafter bigsmile

Andrew Nguyenandrewnguyen Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:04:58 PM

How do you cram EVEN MORE speed into Opera? bigeyes

Aleksander AasAleksander Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:13:50 PM

Originally posted by SouthernCross:

How do you cram EVEN MORE speed into Opera?


There is a small gap between Turbo and the Speed Dial where we managed to cram in some more speed wink

Dark FurieFurie Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:20:38 PM

Just to keep you up so you can work on the browser, yeah? devil

Ulinamiss-u Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:28:41 PM

December 22 is my birthday. Happy birthday to me :-)

Sn3ipen Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:35:50 PM

You guys must be the busiest people in the world, comming out with updates at this speed:)

My guess is Carakan. The new JavaScript rendering engine that you have been talking about for some time. I cant wait to put my hands on that. smile

http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2009/02/05/meet-carakan-and-vega

Originally posted by ChoseOpera:

How fast is Carakan? Using a regular cross-platform switch dispatch mechanism (without any generated native code) Carakan is currently about two and a half times faster at the SunSpider benchmark than the ECMAScript engine in Presto 2.2 (Opera 10 Alpha). Since Opera is ported to many different hardware architectures, this cross-platform improvement is on its own very important.

The native code generation in Carakan is not yet ready for full-scale testing, but a few individual benchmark tests we ran show that it is already compatible with runs between 5 and 50 times faster, so it is looking promising so far.

Phaniphanikumarseelam Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:41:12 PM

yikes bigeyes Awesome. Can't wait.

Leonp.vmynoel Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:49:39 PM

Happy birthday to you Ulina. Happy christmas everyone especially to all opera staff, members and my friends here in my.Opera.

I can't wait for the new O 10.5!

FataL Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:53:37 PM

Cool! I also expect to see myriads of squished bugs. smile

João Davidpiroxicam Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:11:55 PM

Cool, thank you. I'm waiting eagerly for that release. up

praetor87 Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:36:54 PM

Oh, it's already froze. lol
I will test it. smile

Angelikiellinidata Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:39:35 PM

party party party headbang headbang headbang yes

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:39:42 PM

yikes yes

ks328 Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:42:06 PM

Go Opera team!
I'm (We're) looking forward to it.

MeanEYEmeaneye-rcf Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:46:20 PM

w00t... can't wait! smile

Miketaussick Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:46:32 PM

WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!! party jester party cheers yes devil bigeyes I can't wait!

Alexodius PrimeAleksOD Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:52:59 PM

party

Kalojan Todorovkalotodo Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:03:37 PM

way to go. im so excited. speed whoooo

yeeliberto Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:10:21 PM

I think is going to be a very fast edition. Imagine a gold version can do!

fejich Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:15:38 PM

Yeah~~~~~~

Johnny Gameflashgames Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:19:50 PM

Yes, even more speed! yikes

Methodius Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:40:58 PM

How soon should we expect impossibility to speed-up opera caused by physical limits of the Universe?

Danieledarklink88 Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:44:33 PM

I really love you guys! Opera is going to regain the crown for the fastest browser! I hope Chrome will eat our dust!

Matheusmatheusfernal Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:58:20 PM

I hope it's the new javascrip engine! bigsmile
The current one has really aged.

Shane Bundyoperabaker Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:12:53 PM

Opera 10.5 wouldn't be Presto 2.4 and Carakan would it? bigsmile

Cutting Spoonhellspork Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:47:52 PM

Sweet. So this will be a pre-alpha from Labs or Core? I take it the next phase will be 10.20 in-count, 10.50 tentative; same as 10.00 in-count, 10.10 tentative not long ago.

More speed is an alluring statement though. From the Top Gear test of a Koenigsegg CCX: "If this was my car, I'd never need nicotine again!"

Vladqasalater Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:52:24 PM

looks great!
I want 2 test Carakan up

Spadar ShutSpShut Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:31:40 PM

VEGA! VEGA! VEGA! This will be VEGA! I'm sure!

party party party

Al Garciaalgarcia Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:48:13 PM

I'm not interested on Google Chrome OS at all but will happily use Opera OS.

Moon KnightCognito2 Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:10:15 PM

superb, splendid, sleek, sexy, and of course, speedy. Opera, you are sublime!! up up up

techlawsam Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:14:35 PM

sweet! party ....wow thats pretty fast development! !0.2 alpha has only just been released and 10.5 on its way?!? You rock Opera Team! bigsmile

OPERATORGÖKTÜRK Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:44:51 PM

Thank you !! I am waiting... smile

Jeff ™intelimac20inch Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:51:29 PM

yikes yes coffee party

Kokogroko Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:56:23 PM

drool, drool!!

KaskaMatej Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:57:21 PM

v=VO^2; where v=speed, V=version, O=Opera (const)

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:33:37 PM

party

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