Christmas comes early for Opera users

December 17, 2009 · by Huib Kleinhout

While everyone is off for Christmas vacation, the desktop team is working hard on preparing a nice holiday gift for Opera users. On December 22nd we will release a 10.5 pre-alpha. We'll keep it a surprise for now, but the keyword is: speed.

Edit: There are some reports about an old internal build of 10.5 being available. Don't run it, the official build on Tuesday is much better and you don't risk getting nasty trojans on you pc.

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

tomassplatch17. December 2009, 14:48
Yes! I hope there will be Vega and 3D acceleration too. Thank you!
Martin Kadlec17. December 2009, 14:50
WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!

IT WILL BE THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR ME EVER!!
Pfelelep17. December 2009, 14:54
jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all tha waaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaayyyy....
zoquete17. December 2009, 14:55
'< auuuuuuuuuuuu
Dove17. December 2009, 14:56
Great! Thank you , Opera Team!

I hope we will see Hardware Acceleration !!!
And Browser Extensions support !!!
Abhinav17. December 2009, 14:58
Ravindran Navaneethan17. December 2009, 14:59
I hope it's Carakan
Marc Portabella17. December 2009, 15:02
Yes!!!!!!!
mmm, speed...
Otto17. December 2009, 15:03
Bring it on!
sirnh117. December 2009, 15:05
If the keyword is speed, then I'm guessing Carakan
Matheus17. December 2009, 15:09
Originally posted by Ravindran:

I hope it's Carakan

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anakin-skyrunner17. December 2009, 15:10
Carakan, Carakan, oh were are thou? Hope dies last...
shadowK17. December 2009, 15:14
+1 Carakan
nimu_chan17. December 2009, 15:15
Thank's!!
It's so nice Christmas Presents!!
I'm happy
Igor17. December 2009, 15:16
Yes!
Thank for the gift!!!
David Tsunamy17. December 2009, 15:19
CARAKAN!!!! PLZ!!!!!!

THX THX THX TEAM!!!!
David Tsunamy17. December 2009, 15:25
...and browser extensions... why not?
lwiczek17. December 2009, 15:30
I not nececerly hope it's Caracan - I'd gladly see speed improvement in Opera DOM + connection (long wait for connect/download site + render it, have anyone been on last.fm charts page?!). JS in current Opera is more than OK!
Philipp17. December 2009, 15:38
nice!
Adrien17. December 2009, 15:40
zoquete17. December 2009, 15:43
I want fixed "all" bugs
David Mann17. December 2009, 15:43
I have been checking this page multiple times/day to see whether a Xmas gift might be coming!

Whatever it is, I am sure we will love it!
EricJH17. December 2009, 15:48
That's amazing news. Time for Opera to hit the competition where it hurts ....

Let's see what it may bring: Vega, Carakan....
Jack17. December 2009, 15:57
Awesome =D
Daniel Aleksandersen17. December 2009, 15:58

Driving home for Christmas
Oh, I can't wait to see those faces!
I’m driving home for Christmas, yea
Well I'm moving down that line
And it's been so long
But I will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away…
Andrey Petrov17. December 2009, 15:59
Cool!
Ar1Pe17. December 2009, 16:02
Ferris17. December 2009, 16:08
Very excited... would love to see 2D acceleration....but Opera doesn't really need it. And it would only be supported on the MS platform anyways right? Oh unless it was openGL????
Kelson C17. December 2009, 16:14
Presto 2.4+Carakan!
Ruari Ødegaard17. December 2009, 16:21
@Daniel ????

Just because you are working from home that does not mean you can drink!
Janusz W.17. December 2009, 16:21
Yeee, Presto 2.4 in Vega, and possibly Carakan
Svein17. December 2009, 16:21
Originally posted by ruario:

Just because you are working from home that does not mean you can drink!

Wait, you're saying drinking on the job is off? I'm a goddamn fish!!
Kamalesh17. December 2009, 16:24
Thanks to the Desktop Team elves to get this done for our year-end playing.

Originally posted by lwiczek:

I'd gladly see speed improvement in Opera DOM

Hopefully, we'll see Presto v2.4 on Tuesday, that'll tweak DOM step-through (since it's already in Mini/Mobile).

Carakan will be cool, too, but the inane artificial benchmarking advertising is getting old...but people believe them to accurately reflect real-world browsing, so...

Btw, if you want border-radius, it needs the upcoming Vega (vector graphics library) to enable...so please tone down the 95 posts about it every week.
Андрей Панов17. December 2009, 16:27
Pedro Ferreira17. December 2009, 16:28
Thank you Opera!
Merry christmas
Abhishek Thakur17. December 2009, 16:29
Now that's what i was waiting for
Pinha2417. December 2009, 16:38
cool!... waiting
Kai Ockendorf17. December 2009, 16:46
Yes ...Thanks for the great news
João David17. December 2009, 16:53
Will we be finally getting Face Gestures? I've been waiting for that since almost a year back. You've announced it last year, if I'm not mistaken.
greench17. December 2009, 16:55
Are they Presto 2.4 and Carakan?
Thanks a lot
Prasoon Agarwal17. December 2009, 17:00
Ninja Rojo17. December 2009, 17:05
wow
Zaur Nasibov17. December 2009, 17:22
Oh, I wish for stable Opera with QT4 builds
Alfonso Aldín Martínez17. December 2009, 17:26
:O woooow
Francisco Herrera17. December 2009, 17:38
nahtanoj99917. December 2009, 17:39
From what Jon Hicks has been saying on twitter, we can probably expect some major interface changes.
Matheus17. December 2009, 17:43
I guess it's the Presto 2.4
zikzakatak17. December 2009, 17:50
this is (un) official but next opera 10.5 will be faster and tougher.

i hear they are looking on how to include mr. tamil into opera somehow
ouzoWTF17. December 2009, 17:56
Hector Macias Ayala17. December 2009, 17:59
Carakan is about speed and so is Vega... well, everything is about speed, hell yeah!!