They feature Hacker News in their promotion material for the release: <a href="http://www.opera.com/browser/tips/?feature=speeddial" rel="nofollow">http://www.opera.com/browser/tips/?feature=speeddial</a>
SO excited. I continue to be impressed with Opera corp in 2010. They fumbled a bit with inital 10.x release but recovered in a big way with 10.5x and now this one is the Best Opera EVER. This one even beats out Iron Browser in Peacemaker benchmark for me, which has been a very formidable opponent until now..<p><a href="http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/5002/81454201.png" rel="nofollow">http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/5002/81454201.png</a>
I'm pretty impressed with the effort Opera has been making lately. It certainly makes the browser war more interesting.<p>Also, the linux upgrade is awesome. I was beginning to worry about their linux support (considering 10.50 hadn't been released yet).
Used Opera last summer for about 6 weeks but ultimately gravitated back to FF. Kept it installed and used it periodically to check CSS rendering between browsers. I liked 10.5 but not enough.<p>I've noticed performance issues with FF lately so I upgraded to Opera 10.6 today just to see. Yeesh. This is fast. I'm going to stay for a while. It's a nice experience.
Glad to see that there are FreeBSD and OpenSolaris versions available (a clear advantage over Chromium!), considering I've recently transitioned my desktop box to FreeBSD. I'll have to give Opera a spin and run some benchmarks of my own.
In the eye candy department... Anyone notice the new effects on the tab rollover? Nice fading gradient and slick animation if you then hover over a different one.<p>Not that WebM and Geolocation aren't cool too...
I think a new potato test is called for! :)<p>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaT7thTxyq8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaT7thTxyq8</a>)
And still has the bug where if you use right click+left click to go back a page, if your cursor lands on a link when the page loads it automatically follows it.
It is quite incredible with it's speed. I just might become a believer :) Firefox is plagued by performance problems on linux (at least for me). To be honest compared to chrome FF is pretty sluggish feeling. But Opera "feels" faster than chrome :) Its impressive.