Oslo (ip-192.com): The Internet has a new speed-champion: Opera. The newest version 10.5, which was just released as a beta, leapfrogged every rival to become the world's fastest browser, benchmark tests show. Speed tests show that Opera is almost 20 percent faster that Google’s Chrome and more than twice as Firefox 3.6. Opera 10.5 features a new JavaScript rendering engine, called Carakan, and a new vector graphics library called Vega that handles all graphics rendering in the browser.
Users will also benefit from a new minimalist-interface, along with a private browsing mode that leaves no trace of the websites visited, and the ability to add search engines and websites of their choice to the search bar. Support for HTML5 and CSS3 is greatly enhanced. The new version of the browser also supports the Windows 7 Aero Peek and Jump Lists features.
"Our previous JavaScript engine, Futhark, was the fastest when it was first introduced a few years ago, and the challenge for our engineers was to once again to make Opera the fastest browser on earth," said Christen Krogh, Opera's chief development officer."We are proud today to show the results of the amazing work the team has done, and we are looking forward with great anticipation to the final release of Opera 10.50."
Opera also features a Geolocation API, a set of specifications whose basic objective is to estimate the geographic location of the user. A new platform allows Opera Widgets to move beyond the Web browser and into your desktop. Each widget can run as a separate process, independent from the browser, leading them to behave as native applications.
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