Opera Releases 10.00 Beta With Spiffy New Features

With Google Chrome nipping at the heels of other open source browsers, it’s not surprising to see developers ramping up efforts to get a new version of Opera out the door. Version 10.00 Beta 1 of Opera was released last week with a bunch of nifty new features, upgrades, and performance improvements. Though Opera is most notable for its snappy mobile browser, its new desktop version is nothing to sneeze at.

Speed Dial, a longtime favorite feature of mine that pops open a screen with thumbnail images of your favorite Web sites, is now fully customizable. Now, in addition to being able to choose which sites show up in thumbnails, you can also add a custom background of your choice.

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