The second snapshot of the browser this week

Jun 26, 2009 16:20 GMT  ·  By

Opera made available no less than two development milestones of Opera 10 this week, the last one today, June 26, claiming that it was close to releasing the final build of the browser to web. Just a couple of days ago, the browser maker was offering Opera 10.0 Build 1601 Beta. On June 24, a member of the Opera team revealed that “We are quickly approaching the final release of Opera 10.0, so we have been working on fixing bugs and stabilizing the program.”

Essentially, it sounded like Opera was putting the finishing touches on the next iteration of its browser. The changelog covers a consistent volume of items spanning across all the flavors of Opera 10 for Windows, Mac and Linux, and covering the UI, the core of the browser, and even Opera Unite. In this regard, although the Norwegian company claimed that the final stage of Opera 10 was close, fact is that the browser still has to go into the Release Candidate phase before it hits RTM.

“What we need to do now is to identify any remaining issues that are serious enough to block the release (so-called ‘showstoppers’). There are some more bugfixes coming up, so we are not quite ready for a release candidate yet, but you should definitely let us know about any serious issues we may have missed,” the Opera team representative added. “This build includes numerous bugfixes and general stability work, as well as skin fixes, and some important changes to Opera Link.”

The June 26 release brings tweaks with the graphical user interface, but also fixes for UPnP issues affecting Opera Unite. “We have also enabled some experimental UPnP code, so please report any unexpected network related issues that you come across. Any crashes can simply be reported through the new crash dialog. In addition to that, we have the first 64-bit Qt4 builds for Linux. As a final note, the native skin is still not finished,” the Opera team representative stated.

Opera 10 Beta is available for download here.