Download Opera 10.0 build 1535

Opera’s developers have a new ‘development snapshot’ of Opera 10 released. To be precise, it is build 1535, the first version to be equipped with a new default skin. In addition to a new look, the developers have also squashed the necessary bugs and made improvements. For example, Opera’s internal mail client has been tinkered with and the core of the browser has been cleaned of some errors. Furthermore, bugs have been removed from the Windows and Mac builds.

Opera 10 uses, among other things, a new render engine, should deliver better performance than the 9 branch and is equipped with an auto-updater. Furthermore, the support of Widgets under Linux has been overhauled and the web standards are fully supported, as evidenced by the score of 100 in the Acid3 test. More information about the new possibilities of the new browser can be found at this page are being found. Below are the release notes of the new Opera:

For those who’d like a sneaky-peek at the development of the new Opera 10 skin for Windows and Mac, this is the snapshot build for you!

Things to bear in mind while you’re playing with this:

• What you see here is neither complete nor final, and there will be more iterations before the final release. Some elements will still look like the current skin!
• Currently the skin is implemented for the default setup, tabs at the top, panels on the left, panel toolbar on the left and status bar at the bottom. Other setups will look a bit odd – for now.
• This build doesn’t include the new features in Opera 10, so one of the reasons for the revised skin isn’t there. All we’ll be clear when the beta comes out!

A more descriptive post about the thinking behind the new skin, and why we’re changing it will follow with the beta. For now, give it time to ‘settle down’ and see what you think!

We have also hit another issue no other browser has run into (yet!). By reaching the version number 10 we have noticed several high-profile sites and frameworks breaking because of wrong browser sniffing. Opera 10 gets (erroneously!) detected as… Opera 1. We have modified the UA string to read

Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00 (or similar – depending on your platform). The “real” version is added at the end of the string. We will publish a more detailed explanation of this soon. Please let us know if you come across some web sites that break now because of this change!

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• Windows MSIA / Windows Classic
• Macintosh (Intel only) / Macintosh (Universal)
• UNIX/Linux