We're finishing up the last batch of bug fixes before releasing a beta tomorrow. Our focus lately has been stability after the major feature period before the beta release.

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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Hei
We today released the new beta of 10.6.
The focus on this version has been performance and core updates.
We have added some nice web technologies :

WebM, Geolocation, Web Workers, Offline Web Applications, Cross-Document Messaging update etc



We do appreciate the help you guys give us with your testing.
Now lets continue making sure Opera 10.6 gets solid.
Let the bugfixing continue

Hi all,

My name is Erika and I’ve worked at Opera since 2005 which I guess makes me a veteran by Opera standards. I just joined the Desktop Team as a tester a few days ago. So I can’t take much credit for this great release, but here it is. We proudly present Opera 10.52 Beta 2 for Mac OS 10.4 and newer!


A lot of work has gone in to improving stability and fixing issues related to scrolling. And then there’s of course the general polishing. The final version is closing in... In the meantime, enjoy the Beta 2.

Highlights

• Generally improved scrolling with added support for scrolling with momentum
• Support for VoiceOver screen-access
• Faster domain name lookup on Mac OS 10.6
• Support for Mac OS 10.4 and greater on Intel and PPC

Known Issues

• Some standalone widgets may misbehave on PPC
• Some ECMAScript stability problems on PPC

Changelog
The full change log for Beta 2 can be found here, and screenshots here.

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Windows 10.50 is released and we are still the fastest browser available! If you haven't downloaded it yet, what is taking you so long? Head over to www.opera.com/download, to get your hands on it now. We have gone from Pre-Alpha to Final in just over two months (with a Christmas holiday in between I might add). Never has the development of the desktop browser been so fast. Our developers are rivalling Carakan for speed! But the thanks doesn't just go to them, we simply couldn't have done it without your testing and feedback. So give yourselves a big pat on the back for all that we have achieved together. In the last couple of blog posts, several of you commented that our developers deserve some time off and whilst that is true, I know the Mac and UNIX teams are still hungry to get their own versions of 10.50 out. So there will be no slacking off, just yet. Development continues apace! Whilst you Mac and UNIX users await your respective finals, we thought we'd give you another snapshot. Like the Windows final, these builds have the latest rendering improvements but are understandably still rougher around the edges, as they have not yet been fully optimised and integrated into their environments (though Mac is getting close). Highlights

• The latest Presto and Carakan improvements

Known Issues

• Mac
  • No support for PowerPC (PPC)
  • Minimal Java Support
  • Possible performance issues on low end machines
• UNIX
  • Font problems
  • Language input issues
  • Compiz issues
  • No .deb or .rpm packages
  • Some Command line option don't work

WARNING: Opera 10.50 for Mac and Unix is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all. Downloads

• Mac Intel
• UNIX

Desktop is proud to announce that Opera 10.5 for Windows is now in Beta!

Head on over to the Next Browser page to download a copy for yourself
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Note: Geolocation is disabled in the public Beta until we iron out the last details with our location provider. You can still test it and provide feedback from the snapshots.

This build is a new build, different from the Windows Beta RC so make sure you download it

Mac and UNIX Alpha

Don't worry Mac and UNIX fans we haven't forgotten about you with all the Windows work going on. We too have been working hard improving your favourite platform. So much so that these platforms are now well into their Alpha stages, and we are working hard to get to Beta as soon as possible.

Known Issues

Mac

• No video support
• Drag and drop support is less complete that in Peregrine
• Quicktime plugin mouse events do not work as expected
• Silverlight plugin does not work
• Printing of forms and frames does not work
• No Java support
• Window behaviour is not correct for some pop-up windows
• Flash is often painted in the wrong position

UNIX

• Font support is less complete than in Peregrine
• No drag and drop support
• No printing support
• No KDE integration
• System colors are not retrieved from UI toolkit
• Open/Save dialogs not available if neither KDE nor GTK is installed
• Flash is often painted in the wrong position

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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• Mac (Intel) OS 10.5 or later
• UNIX

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