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Gorgeous Firefox 3.7 for Windows mockups

pthurrott — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:14:46 GMT

Some may recall that I got excited about Mozilla's original plans for the Firefox 3 UI on Windows, only to have my hopes dashed when they came out with something half-baked. (The shipping Firefox 3.x "chrome" is just horrible looking, in my opinion, and as much as I hate wasting time configuring things that are better left alone, I always replace it.)

Well, they're at it again.

On the Mozilla Wiki, you can now see a mockup for what Mozilla calls Firefox 3.7, on Windows. And man, is it looking good. I won't get my hopes up again. But here's to hoping they make this happen.

And unlike with the current theme/chrome/whatever they call it, this one looks as nice on all the major platforms: Windows Vista/7, Windows XP, and Mac OS X. (The current version curiously looks best on XP, to me.) Check out the Wiki for XP shots.

Thanks very much to Stan B. for forwarding this info.

Firefox 3.5.1

pthurrott — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:58:23 GMT

Not a huge deal, but Mozilla has bumped up Firefox 3.5 a bit in the past 24 hours.

What’s New in Firefox 3.5.1

Firefox 3.5.1 fixes the following issues:

Several security issues.

Several stability issues.

An issue that was making Firefox take a long time to load on some Windows systems.

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

Firefox 3.5

pthurrott — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:11:18 GMT

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 today as previously expected. There's a lot of info out there:

Product overview

The Fastest Firefox Yet

Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.

More Ways to Keep You Safe

Keeping you safe while you surf is our top priority, which is why we’ve upgraded our anti-phishing and anti-malware technologies and have added private browsing and “forget this site” options to ensure your privacy.

Plus, our open source security process means we have experts around the globe working around the clock to keep you (and your personal information) safe.

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Everybody uses the Web differently, so why should your browser be exactly like the next guy’s? Whether you’re into chatting, cooking or coding, Firefox has more than 6,000 add-ons to help you customize it to fit your exact needs.

Advancing the Web

We’ve been working hard to make sure Firefox 3.5 brings you the best of the modern web. With new features like private browsing, tear-off tabs and enhancements to the Awesome Bar, plus major performance enhancements, you’ll enjoy life on the cutting edge.

See How We Stack Up

We’ve told you about what makes Firefox great, but how do we compare against Internet Explorer? Check out our handy browser comparison chart to see for yourself.

Plus, you can watch a Firefox 3.5 video tour. Or just download it.

Now available: Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate 1) or (Release Candidate), depending on which paragraph you read

pthurrott — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:39:16 GMT

Mozilla:

Release Notes

released to beta users June 16th, 2009

This is the first release candidate for Firefox 3.5, the latest version of the Firefox web browser. As a member of our beta audience, you are being updated to this version to help test and preview the new version before it is released to the general public. Please read below for more information.

About this Release Candidate

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is the seventh development milestone of Firefox 3.5, the next version of the Firefox web browser. While this release is considered to be stable, it is intended for developers and members of our testing community to use for early evaluation and feedback. Users of the latest released version of Firefox should not expect all of their add-ons to work properly with this milestone.

What's New in Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate)

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:

This beta is now available in more than 70 languages - get your local version.

Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.

Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.

Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.

Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Thanks to Brett H. for the tip. Apparently, the final version of Firefox 3.5 will be out by the end of the month.

Mozilla puts Safari's '11 million downloads' in perspective

pthurrott — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:22:06 GMT

LOL. As if it weren’t bad enough that Apple was force feeding Safari 4 to its customers and then gloating about the number of downloads it achieved, we have this bit of news from Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler, which really puts that figure in perspective.

I just read that Apple is reporting 11 million Safari 4 downloads in just three days. That's pretty amazing.

I'd like to follow up that report with one of my own.

Firefox 3.0.11 was downloaded about 150 million times in the last 24 hours.

Ahahaha. That’s good stuff. Or as CNET’s Matt Asay puts it, it makes Apple’s number “almost a rounding error.”

It would be spiteful, but all too easy, to put most of Apple’s claims to the test like this and reveal them to be the silliness that they really are. It continues to astonish me that Apple gets such a pass in the tech media.

Thanks to Marlon H. for the tip.

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 now available

pthurrott — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:21:42 GMT

It looks like Mozilla has released a new beta of Firefox 3.5 (formerly 3.1):

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta.

Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) Beta 4 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.5.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

This beta is now available in 70 languages - get your local version.

Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.

Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.

Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.

Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Thanks to Brett H. for the tip.

Is IE8 really fat and slow?

pthurrott — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:52:57 GMT

In sharp contrast to certain dimwitted bloggers out there, no one can ever accuse Ed Bott of "false misunderstanding." The guy grabs on to a topic and shakes it until it squeaks, and for this reason, he'll always be the voice of reason in our industry. The topic du jour: Reports that IE 8 is slow and a memory hog. Take it away, Ed:

Two criticisms have come up repeatedly that can be measured empirically, so I thought I would do that here. One is the burning question of whether IE8 is faster or slower than its competitors; the other is whether it makes reasonable use of system resources.

A series of independent tests performed by PC World, which concluded that IE8 really is faster than Firefox ... On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg reached the opposite conclusion in his review ... I was baffled by Mossberg’s results. [As was I, sort of. I mean, it's Mossberg. --Paul] When I tried the same tests on several PCs here with IE8, Firefox 3.0.7, and Google Chrome, I got the same results as PC World. In general, all pages loaded so quickly in all three browsers that detecting any difference with a stopwatch was nearly impossible.

Ed highlights an amazing potential fix for people who are experiencing trouble with IE performance. Check out his post for that fix. As for RAM usage...

Microsoft’s browser using more RAM than its rivals. Are those reports true? The answer, it turns out, is a qualified yes.

Firefox and IE7 use a single process that hosts as many tabs as the system can stand. That means the browser and its supporting files only have to be loaded once, and each tab can share those resources. That explains why Firefox and IE7 are so sparing with memory usage.

Unfortunately, the side effect of that single-process model is that one crashed tab can bring down the entire browser. To work around this major annoyance, IE8 and Chrome use multiple processes.

Tab isolation requires more memory, whether you use IE8 or Chrome. If you’re bound and determined to use less RAM, use Firefox – and pray that you don’t have a crash.

I would just add one point here. Application memory consumption is not an issue on modern Windows versions unless that app slowly eats up RAM over time for no reason (Firefox, cough) or doesn't give up the memory when you close the application. Folks, memory is cheap. And let's be honest: Tab isolation/recovery is more than a fair tradeoff for some RAM consumption. And how much RAM are we talking, exactly? In Ed's test, he loaded up 12 tabs. That takes up just 256 MB of RAM on a 4 GB system. Come on.

As always, the truth is so much less sensational then the headlines (and reports) that Ed is skewering here.

Why Internet Explorer 8 disappoints web developers

pthurrott — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:05:38 GMT

Jake Goldman has written up a lengthy post using three examples of how Microsoft continues to disappoint web developers with IE 8. I think this is an important part of the overall discussion around this browser, and about browsers in general, and of course the wider uber-topic under which it all sits, our inevitable migration to cloud computing. I've given IE 8 a very positive review, something I was pretty sure wouldn't happen as recently as two or three months ago, but in using the browser over a long period of time, I've come around to the notion that IE 8's security/privacy and "beyond the page" (Microsoft's phrase) features will make a much bigger difference to users (real users with real concerns, that is, not people concerned with niche side topics like the Acid3 test or whatever) than various technical failings (or its performance, though I think that's an important concern as well).

None of that should take away from the message of this post, however, which seeks to develop "a deeper understanding of the strategic, cost, and technical significance" of IE 8. Again, it's a topic worthy of debate.

When it comes to the modern browsers (IE7+, Fx2+, Safari 3+), web developers mostly cater to the lowest common denominator. For example, Safari supports on the fly rendering of font shadows, but IE7 and Firefox 3 do not ... The most infamous example of design / browser trade off is font type, which we’ll discuss in our examples.

Alternatively, developers can write alternative code based on the user’s browser. With the “modern” browsers, there are only a few reasons to do this (at least for capable developers) ... In the case of one IE6, however, there are so many inconsistencies and glitches that almost every site we develop has a special stylesheet only for IE6 users. It goes without saying that this adds time (=cost).

The “half way” is not so much a way of addressing the differences as it is a way of accepting the differences. That is, the notion of “failing gracefully.” The idea here is that if a browser like IE6 simply can’t support a non-critical feature (a “nicety”) without significant additional cost and effort, we may elect to leave a feature out.

Goldman then supplies three very specific examples of where IE 8 falls short.

One is CSS-based rounded corners, "a feature that can be added very quickly and easily in current versions of all major web browsers except IE8 and earlier." I note that this feature requires "browser specific versions of the border radius property" for Mozilla, KHTML, and WebKit, but whatever. IE renders the graphical box corners as non-rounded.

The second involves fonts. He notes that there is "a new style property, @font-face, that will allow developers to support almost any font type in the future." It's not fully supported in any shipping browser, however. It works somewhat with Safari 3 and will apparently work fully in Safari 4 (now out in very early beta) and in Firefox 3.5 (now in Beta 3).

The third issue involves opacity, or "support for translucent / semi-transparent / opaque / whatever-you-want-to-call-it elements, particularly backgrounds." Today, "the latest stable version of Safari [Safari 3? Or is Safari 4 the latest 'stable' version? --Paul], and the forthcoming release of Firefox 3.5 would make semi-transparent backgrounds even easier with support for a 'RGBA' (or 'Red/Green/Blue/Alpha') value for the background property." It's not supported in IE 8.

OK. Obviously, there are many more examples, presumably some of which relate to every other browser on the market aside from IE. (Which, by the way, still controls about 70 percent usage share.) The main argument seems to boil down to this:

With serious competition from Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and now even Google with Chrome, there was hope that Microsoft would be far more aggressive with IE8. The hope was that this aggressiveness would push the browser makers to standards oneupmanship (which we are getting from Apple and Mozilla), resulting in platforms and market share that, 2 years from now, would erase many of the obstacles web developers face in pushing design and development value to their limits.

So, what he's not taking into account here is the unbelievably aggressive change Microsoft actually is making, and asking its one billion customers to make, with moving to an on-by-default, standards-rendering mode with IE 8. This is going to be a huge issue for millions of people, far more people than will ever be affected by the picayune little web development issues he raises here. While I wish on some vague level that Microsoft would "adopt web standards fully," the truth is that life is more complicated than what he's presenting here.

And let's face it. Who really cares how hard life is for a small group of people (web developers)? Do your job, for crying out loud.

(In interests of fairness, just raising this issue is of course part of doing the job. But there is a "blame Microsoft" mentality that's so easy to fall into. Where is the praise for moving so aggressively towards web standards?)

I do agree that Microsoft needs to push out IE updates more quickly than with the next major browser release (IE 9?). And maybe now that Microsoft has finally made the first tortuous step, it can gauge reactions and then start delivering those updates (to CSS, HTML, whatever) once the dust settles.

There's a lot to think about here, and I don't want anyone to believe I'm dispensing with this as an issue. I'm not. This is worthy of thought and debate. But let's not forget that to the average user, and that's most of them, IE 8 is a huge step forward. It's not as big of as step as it could be if Microsoft didn't have all those existing customers to worry about. That, as in many things Microsoft, is always the central issue when it comes to forward-looking innovation attempts.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 now available

pthurrott — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:12:17 GMT

Mozilla Developer Center:

Please note: Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.1 can be followed at the Firefox 3.1 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #shiretoko.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

Improved the new Private Browsing Mode, including the ability to “Forget This Site” from the History sidebar.

Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

Improvements to web worker thread support.

New native JSON support.

Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Testers can download Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 builds for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 64 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3.1 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.

Microsoft: IE 8 is often faster than Firefox, Chrome or Safari

pthurrott — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:44:15 GMT

Sorry, benchmark followers. Not that it actually matters--in real world usage, all of these products actually perform similarly--but it turns out that the darling of Web browser benchmarks really isn't Safari. Or Chrome. Or even Firefox. It's IE 8:

Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding issues in benchmarking and performance analysis

Brief Description

This document explains the various browser and network components and how each piece can impact performance when benchmarking.

Overview

This document explains the various browser and network components and how each piece can impact performance when benchmarking. The document also compares the capabilities and limitations of various benchmarking tools, as well as ways to design tests to avoid these issues. Also included is an overview of instructions on how to set up a benchmarking environment to conduct some of the testing processes discussed in the document.

Too dry? How about a video? :)

Recently, there's been a lot of discussion about fast browsers ... lots of talk about lab testing that involves microbenchmarks that most consumers have never heard of ... And that doesn't show what's really going on.

What really matters is you.

You want things to move quickly on the web, with real web pages, in real life.

We agree.

We take your experience seriously.

Browser speed is one of the things we test in our performance lab in Redmond.

As it turns out, Internet Explorer 8 is one of the fastest browsers.

To ensure accurate testing, many factors are taken into account ... Network connectivity and congestion. Network device latency. Resource competition. Browser caching. Router caching.

That's pretty pointy-headed.

The real deal is ... How quickly can you get where you want to go, and do what you want to do?

To make sure that Internet Explorer 8 gives you a good answer to that question ... We test all day long ... Against earlier versions of Internet Explorer ... Against competing browsers ... Including Firefox's shipping version, 3.05 ... And Chrome's shipping version, 1.0. [They also tested against Safari 3.x and 4.x betas --Paul]

... And the results may surprise you.

Loading the world's 25 most visited web sites is a good way to see real world experiences side-by-side.

There's rigor in the methodology that's more than a stopwatch ... Watch closely .... and don't blink.

Speed tests ensue. IE 8 wins. And when it doesn't win, the differences are so small, they're not detectable by the human eye.

Internet Explorer 8 loads faster on:

5 of the top 10 web sites.

12 of the top 25.

3 times as many as Firefox.

1/3 more than Chrome.

Internet Explorer is fast. Just like other browsers.

The crowd goes wild. Actually, the crowd is confused. Because they've been sold a load of bull.

Which raises an interesting point, and what will be the central theme of my IE 8 review next week: Today's browsers all perform well, and in the real world, you don't actually notice a performance difference between any of them. (I saw exactly this when I looked at the supposedly superior Safari 4 beta.) What matters is what the browser brings to the table in the form of security and functionality, in how it makes you more productive on the web.

You know, IE 8 ain't so bad, folks.

Mozilla releases early beta of Firefox for mobile devices

pthurrott — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:21:54 GMT

It's currently codenamed Fennec.

This is an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only, intended to:

get wider community feedback on our approach to the user experience

engage Mozilla community teams, including localizers, add-on developers, and testers

get feedback from Web developers

The focus of development so far has been on building a new user interface that reflects Firefox's design principles, and adds touch screen support and other features that are appropriate for mobile phones and other handheld devices. We plan to do further alpha releases which focus on performance, including projects like TraceMonkey, speculative parsing, and many Fennec and Gecko optimizations. But in the meantime, we feel it is important to make this early release available to continue to grow the community and gather feedback as early as possible in the development process.

Of particular note: You can install a version for Windows to see how its coming along.

Looking good, though I'd argue that the address bar area is way too big right now. I assume that will auto-hide.

Thanks to Sebastian V. for the tip.

Mozilla jumps the shark

pthurrott — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:18:14 GMT

When a company like Opera complains about Microsoft, I sort of get it. No one uses this browser on PCs, and no one ever will. (Indeed, Opera was the last "major" browser maker to stop trying to charge for its product, despite the fact that every single OS has come with a free Web browser preinstalled by default for well over a decade.) (And, please, dear God, please. Don't try to argue that Opera's share is low because the browser reports itself as a different browser. No one uses Opera. No one. There are more Safari users, for crying out loud.)

When the European Union complains about Microsoft's bundling of IE, I don't get it. The US has already curbed Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior quite nicely, thank you very much, and as noted above, every single OS sold or given away today comes with a free Web browser. Asking Microsoft to remove theirs is anti-competitive, pure and simple. People are sophisticated enough to download a new browser if they want one. Let's just be honest about that.

But when Mozilla--the one company that has made very serious market share gains against Microsoft recently--agrees with the EU and with Opera that Microsoft's Web browser abuses of 1995-2000 are still very real and ongoing, and that they will help the EU in their case against the software giant, I think it's time to drag out an increasingly tired statement: Mozilla has jumped the shark.

This saddens me. I use and recommend Mozilla Firefox and feel that it is the best browser out there.

It's free, by the way. And it jumped from 18 percent usage share in May 2008 to 21 percent by the end of last year. This despite the "bundling" of IE with Windows. (And, presumably, the "bundling" of Safari with Mac OS X. Oh, and did I mention that Firefox is "bundled" with virtually every Linux distribution there is?) In other words, the usage share for Firefox in the Web browser market is over double what the usage share is for the Mac is (in the US) in the PC market. And no one ever gets tired of talking up Apple's successes. Firefox is over twice as successful as the Mac (from a usage share perspective). And it took less than half the time.

So. Looking ahead, I need to think things through. Will IE 8 be good enough that I can simply abandon a product that is made by a corporation I simply cannot support? Perhaps. Is this issue big enough to force me to actually make a stand? It just may be.

Google releases preview of Chrome 2.0

pthurrott — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:00:15 GMT

Looks like Google is serious about ramping up Chrome to better compete with IE and Firefox. There's an alpha version of Chrome 2.0 available, and the release notes include a list of new features...

New version of WebKit. WebKit is the open source code Google Chrome uses to render web pages (HTML and CSS). 1.0.154.36 used basically the same version of WebKit as Safari 3.1, but the WebKit team has made a lot of improvements since that was released.

Form Autocomplete. Google Chrome remembers what you've typed into fields on web pages. If you type in the same form again, it will show any previous values that match what you've typed so far. You can disable Form autocomplete on the Minor Tweaks tab of the Options dialog. (Note: this is like the basic form autocomplete available in Firefox or Internet Explorer. It is not the same as the form fill feature in Google Toolbar.)

Full-page zoom. Previously, page zoom (Ctrl++ or Ctrl+-) increased or decreased only the text on a page. Zoom now scales everything on the page together, so pages look correct at different zoom levels.

Spell-checking improvements. You can now enable or disable spell checking in a text field by right-clicking in the field. You can also change the spell-checking language by right clicking.

Autoscroll. Many users have asked for this and (thanks to our WebKit update), we now offer autoscrolling. Middle-click (click the mousewheel on most mice) on a page to turn on autoscroll, then move the mouse to scroll the page in any direction.

Docking dragged tabs. When you drag a tab to certain positions on the monitor, a docking icon will appear. Release the mouse over the docking icon to have the tab snap to the docking position instead of being dropped at the same size as the original window.

Import bookmarks from Google Bookmarks. The [Wrench menu] > Import bookmarks & settings... option now has a Google Toolbar option to import Google Bookmarks. The bookmarks get imported into your Other bookmarks folder. The bookmarks are not kept in sync; the import process simply reads in the current set of online bookmarks.

And so on. You can download the Chrome 2.0 alpha through the Chromium Beta Channel or Chromium Developer Preview Channel, which will provide ongoing updates as they are released.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

pthurrott — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:45:18 GMT

News from Mozilla:

Mozilla has just announced the availability of Firefox 3.1 beta 2. This latest version features support for new Web technologies, including video, audio, geolocation and offline applications.

Mozilla encourages developers and members of their testing community to use Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 for early evaluation and feedback. Please note that while this release is considered to be stable, it's not a fully completed product so there may be some rough edges visually and with the user experience.

New features and changes include:

This beta is now available in more than 55 languages.

Added a new private browsing mode and new functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a Web site.

New support for Web worker threads.

The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for Web content.

Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing.

Support for new Web technologies such as the video and audio elements, the W3C geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

You can view more information on the DevNews post.

Download Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

Opera 10 sneak peek

pthurrott — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:20:10 GMT

Opera is beginning the push for the next version of its Web browser:

Today, Opera Software introduces the first look at Opera 10. An alpha version of Opera 10 is now available at http://www.opera.com/browser/next/.

This release gives people a taste of Opera's new rendering engine, Opera Presto 2.2 — the foundation of all future Opera 10 products. Opera Presto 2.2 offers approximately a 30-percent-faster browsing experience as compared to Opera Presto 2.1, introduced in Opera 9.5 in June 2008.

Opera has fine-tuned its standards support and, as a result, Opera 10 alpha achieves an Acid3 100/100 Test score. This version also provides Web developers with a whole range of new technologies for building better Web sites.

Other new features in Opera 10 alpha include spell-checking as you type, as well as auto-updating to the latest versions as they become available. Opera Mail also has added support for HTML formatting of e-mails.

“My favorite development in this release is the support for new Web technologies, which allows people to explore new ways of using the Internet," says Johan Borg, Vice President of Consumer Engineering, Opera Software. "Our 100/100 Acid3 Test score is only a first indication of the impact these new Web technologies will have. We look forward to your feedback on Opera 10.”

To read more and download Opera 10 go to http://www.opera.com/browser/next/.

Note that it’s still in alpha at this point.