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Jul comes early this year!

December 17, 2009 · by Aleksander Aas

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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  • Serola17. December 2009, 14:35

    Even more speed :eyes:

  • Abhinav17. December 2009, 14:36

    I am already excited to know what it holds ?

  • dirk17. December 2009, 14:38

    :up:

  • Alexis17. December 2009, 14:38

    10.5 :eyes:

  • Luca Viozzi17. December 2009, 14:42

    omg need!!!

  • Pallab De17. December 2009, 14:42

    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.

  • random41417. December 2009, 14:43

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

  • Tri M. Nguyen17. December 2009, 14:45

    :love:

  • Galileo17. December 2009, 14:45

    :hat:

  • anakin-skyrunner17. December 2009, 14:46

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

  • Christopher R. Halbersma17. December 2009, 14:47

    God I love speed.

  • tomassplatch17. December 2009, 14:47

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

  • zoquete17. December 2009, 14:50

    '< auuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • Otto17. December 2009, 15:01

    va va vooooommmmmm.....

    :yes:

  • Martin Rauscher17. December 2009, 15:01

    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 :D

  • Andrew Nguyen17. December 2009, 15:04

    How do you cram EVEN MORE speed into Opera? :eyes:

  • Aleksander Aas17. December 2009, 15:13

    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:

  • Santa Furie17. December 2009, 15:20

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

  • lwiczek17. December 2009, 15:28

    :hat:

  • Ulina17. December 2009, 15:28

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

  • Joachim17. December 2009, 15:35

    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.

  • Cat O nine lives17. December 2009, 15:41

    :yikes: :eyes: Awesome. Can't wait.

  • Leonp.v17. December 2009, 15:49

    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!

  • FataL17. December 2009, 15:53

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

  • João David17. December 2009, 16:11

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

  • praetor8717. December 2009, 16:36

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

  • Angeliki17. December 2009, 16:39

    :hat: :hat: :hat: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :yes:

  • Kyle Baker17. December 2009, 16:39

    :yikes: :yes:

  • ks32817. December 2009, 16:42

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

  • MeanEYE17. December 2009, 16:46

    w00t... can't wait! :smile:

  • Mike17. December 2009, 16:46

    WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!! :hat: :jester: :hat: :cheers: :yes: :devil: :eyes: I can't wait!

  • Alexei17. December 2009, 16:52

    :hat:

  • Kalojan Todorov17. December 2009, 17:03

    way to go. im so excited. speed whoooo

  • yeeliberto17. December 2009, 17:10

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

  • fejich17. December 2009, 17:15

    Yeah~~~~~~

  • Johnny Game17. December 2009, 17:19

    Yes, even more speed! :yikes:

  • Methodius17. December 2009, 17:40

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

  • Daniele Pellegrini17. December 2009, 17:44

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

  • Matheus17. December 2009, 17:58

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

  • Shane Bundy17. December 2009, 18:12

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

  • Cutting Spoon17. December 2009, 18:47

    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!"

  • Vladqa17. December 2009, 18:52

    looks great!
    I want 2 test Carakan :up:

  • Sp.Shut17. December 2009, 19:31

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

    :hat: :hat: :hat:

  • Alfredo Alejandro Garcia17. December 2009, 19:48

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

  • Daniel Chang17. December 2009, 20:10

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

  • samMD17. December 2009, 20:14

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

  • UFUK17. December 2009, 20:44

    Thank you !! I am waiting... :smile:

  • Jeff ™17. December 2009, 20:51

    :yikes: :yes: :coffee: :hat:

  • Kokogroko17. December 2009, 20:56

    drool, drool!!

  • Matej Ažbe17. December 2009, 21:57

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

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Published inChoose Opera
DateDecember 17, 2009
AuthorAleksander Aas
TagsOpera 10.5, jul, article, beta, browser, campus crew, choose, choose opera, chooseopera, community, contest, download
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