Download Opera 10 alpha with new Presto 2.2.0 rendering engine

A month back i have reviewed the mozila firefox 3.1 beta 1 release with the upcoming Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine.Now opera is coming with their completely new browser named opera version 10 as an alpha release.This all new browser is based on the newly developed Opera Presto 2.2.0 rendering engine.According to opera this new engine will result in improvements in speed, performance and security and optimized to perform significantly better on resource intensive pages such as google Gmail and Facebook. After google, opera is also adding the auto update feature into its opera 10 so now you don’t have to bother about checking for new versions by yourself.Another notable feature that would certainly please the Facebook users.

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 review

Suddenly the web browsers are coming like cats and dogs.And each one coming with a new feature with every new release.After oepra releasing it’s new version, Firefox came out with its latest beta release.This new version is still at beta stage but its a stable release ,so you can download and take a peak into things to come.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1  layout engine originally developed by Netscape Communications Corporation but  currently in developement by Mozilla.

Gecko actually is an API which enables web applications to handle Internet-enabled applications, such as web browsers, content presentation, and client/server.Gecko is the second most-popular layout engine after Trident (used by Internet Explorer ), and followed by WebKit (used by Safari & Google Chrome) and Presto (used by Opera).

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