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Forget about betas, alphas or nightlies – what you want is a pre-alpha release right?
Well that’s what Opera Software is pitching with its Opera 10.5 pre-alpha release this week.
Why Opera 10.5 is interesting to both end-users, developer and competitors, revolves around one key technology – Carakan. Carakan is Opera’s next generation JavaScript engine which Opera has been saying is world-beating since February of this year.
With Opera 10.5 Carakan makes its debut for public consumption and it gives Opera 10.5 a 7x JavaScript performance boost over prior versions. Opera 10.5 also introduces a new graphics library and improvement so Opera’s rendering engine.
Yes, speed does matter.
Is it faster than Chrome or Firefox? That’s always a loaded question as it depends on use-cases.
What is important from my perspective is that there continues to be an emphasis from all browser vendors on making fast next generation browsers even faster.