Okay so my computer broke down last week so I’ve had to buy a new one… I’m ashamed to admit that the first thing I downloaded/installed was Safari 4! It’s pretty alright…

Anyway I was waiting for the new snapshot of Opera 10.5 to come out as the last one they released was fairly unstable to be used as a primary browser! It also broke Developer Tools, which is one of the primary reasons Opera is amazing…

Yesterday, they released a new version of Opera 10.5, and it’s pretty awesome. Not only does my glass-only theme work/look better, it’s a hell of alot more stable, the menus are more organised (although I don’t like the long-winded way of getting to the Developers tools).

It’s also a hell of alot faster. Compared to the past snapshots, Safari outperformed them, of course browser speed is just a farse generally used by Firefox users because they’re l337 – So I only noticed this on 1 website. Needless to say, Opera’s engine is back up to scratch, and rendering stuff faster than Safari does too! Yippeeee!

If you haven’t tried Opera 10.5 yet, I really recommend you do – Whether you’re a Firefox fanboy or IE muppet.

Latest release here – Desktop Team Blog

On an unrelated note: I’ve been using a Mac for a while, and it was pretty nice to see how well Opera worked on it!

BTW: Developer Tools arn’t back in the latest snapshot of 10.5, neeeeeeeeeed them