Opera has just posted the first release candidate of its next browser, Opera 10.60. The new version is faster than the current 10.54 and includes support for WebM, Google’s open-source royalty free video codec.
Opera’s developers have managed to get the most recent 10.60 Beta to release candidate status over the weekend. Opera 10.60 RC1 feels solid and stable and should be released as a final within a few days. The updated version is still based on Opera’s Carakan JavaScript and Presto 2.5 rendering engine and is much more a feature than a speed update.
In a first test run, Opera 10.60 RC1 finished the Sunspider test on our system in 352 ms, which is slightly above the 341 ms that was posted by 10.60 beta on the same system. Those numbers compare to 407 ms for Safari 5.x, 501 ms for IE9 PP3 and 665 ms for latest nightly build of Firefox 3.7a-pre. Google is currently in a class of its own, at least on our quad-core Windows Vista PC: The latest trunk of Chrome 6.0.447.0 finished the Sunspider test in 303 ms.
Besides WebM support, Opera 10.60 offers support for geolocation services, offline web applications and web workers. The RC1 is available for Windows, Mac, and FreeBSD/Linux.
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