Opera 10 is a version of the Opera web browser. The initial version, 10.00, was released in September 2009. This release added a variety of new features, a new skin designed by Jon Hicks, increased standards support, and a new application icon to Opera. Opera 10.00 was touted as being 40% faster than Opera 9.6, with the upgrade of Opera's rendering engine to Presto 2.2.15.
Opera 10.50 was released in March 2010. Opera Software claimed a further 7× boost in JavaScript execution speed, owing to the introduction of the Carakan ECMAScript engine (also known as a JavaScript engine). Opera 10.50 also included a major upgrade to Presto, and an entirely new graphics library, Vega, which will bring hardware accelerated rendering to future versions. A major focus of 10.50 was to improve desktop integration with the various systems on which Opera is deployed, and this release adds full Aero integration for Windows, and use of the Cocoa framework on Mac.
The release of 10.60 marked the first stable release of a browser to ship with native support for WebM video. Geolocation is now supported, and standards support in Presto has been improved. This release also brings native integration with popular Linux desktop environments, currently KDE and GNOME, while removing the previous dependency on Qt. The latest version is Opera 10.63, released October 12, 2010.
Read more about Opera 10: Opera 10.10, Development Split, Opera 10.50, Opera 10.60, Release History, Reception
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“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)