Opera 10.. big whoop.

The Opera 10 browser beta has opened to the public, cloaked in a slightly new interface and boasting a couple key features over the last version. Live tab previews and new navigation are the most conspicuous changes, though the most important one is under the hood: like Opera Mini and the upcoming version of Opera Mobile, Opera 10 supports server-side compression.



It should make browsing on slow cellular and/or modem connections much more palatable, the trade-off being that image content looks like ass, as demonstrated in the above screengrab..


If the big unveil of your new browser is live tab preview.. which is taking up my precious real-estate on my screen, minimizing my browsing area.. F-you.

Theres a reason why people use other browsers.. and its not because we NEED to see what our other tabs are doing..


FAIL.