14 DAY TRIAL // In the past couple of days, Opera Software has released two testing versions of Opera 10.52. The Norwegian browser maker is now at the Release Candidate 4 stage in the development process for the second minor update to Opera 10.50. Early adopters trying out RC4 are invited to continue submitting feedback on the evolution of Opera 10.52. Build 3368 is currently available for download for Windows users, but additional releases are offered to testers running Mac OS X and Linux. However, according to Opera Software, only the Mac and Windows development snapshots of Opera 10.52 are synchronized, with the Linux flavor of the browser lagging behind.
“This is RC4 of 10.52 final for Mac and Windows. It fixes CARAKAN-1144 (Frequent crashes at Facebook) and CORE-27753 (Freezing at Google Maps and dell.com). As always, try to keep comments on-topic. They should be somewhat brief, and yet descriptive enough for other people to be able to reproduce your problem. Post longer comments in the forum, and avoid inline images,” a member of the Opera Desktop Team revealed.
Opera 10.52 Release Candidate 3 was offered to testers on April 21, 2010, just a day ahead of RC4. The rapid pace at which Opera Software is pushing out RC builds of Opera 10.52 indicates that the next release of the browser is close to finalization. After all, Release Candidate is a milestone that inherently points to the latest stages of development.
“As you have noticed we have been trying to kill that NSL bug for a while now. We decided to revert some Cookie behavior to how it was in 10.10 to make it go away for now. So please test for regressions related to cookies/loading of pages. Please tell us if you still get NSL. Your feedback on this bug is very important,” an Opera Desktop team representative said yesterday.
The latest Opera 10.52 Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.