14 DAY TRIAL // Early adopters keeping a close eye on the development process of the next minor update to Opera 10.50 will be happy to know that a new snapshot is now available for download. Delivered just four days after the previous release, Opera 10.54 Build 3388 is focused on resolving a few bugs that survived beyond the previous build. As a reminder to users not familiar with pre-release software, Opera 10.54 Build 3388 is not designed to be installed and run into production environments, but only for testing.
According to a member of the Opera Desktop team, Opera 10.54 Build 3388 only fixes a couple of issues with the browser, and delivers no important changes. Illustrative of the fact that the development process is still far from over is the fact that Java will not work on the Unix/Linux flavor of the browser.
Last week, just ahead of the weekend, Opera 10.54 Build 3386 offered not only bug fixes, but also performance enhancements and improvements to Speed Dial. Since that release, Opera Software has labored to make Flash work again on the Unix version of the browser. The latest 10.54 release does allow end users to enjoy Flash content while surfing the web, even when doing so from an Opera 10.54 version installed on top of Linux.
“We have included a few things we have been working on, and that we are only adding to the main builds now. In addition to various bug fixes for mail, and cross-platform and Mac-specific bug fixes, we have tweaked DOM performance a bit. Please be on the lookout for regressions there,” an Opera Desktop team representative asked. “There are also a few visual tweaks for Speed Dial, but you may have to do a clean install to get the new default background.”
The latest release of Opera 10.54 for Windows is available for download here.