Also, this new skin also eliminates problems which came up with previous skin of 9.5 and 9.6. Initially, there were not any plans for a new skin to be launched with this version but as many icons were updated, it was appropriate to have an overhaul. Opera 10 includes a new skin made by Jon Hicks who is famous as the original provider of the Firefox icon. Opera Turbo is made for people who work on a slow connection or have limited bandwidth. However, the quality of images is reduced significantly due to the compression of the pages. Because of compressed web pages, data is less consumed and thus the total time for loading a page on slow connections is reduced to a great extent. If you are working on a slow connection, Opera 10 automatically detects it and it itself reduces overall download size by compressing web pages using Opera Software’s ‘Turbo’ servers. Presto 2.2.15 also passes the Acid3 test. This time the Opera’s rendering engine is upgraded to Presto 2.2.15 which accounts for Opera 10 being 40% faster than Opera 9.6.Īs the Opera 10 utilizes Presto 2.2.15, there is an improvement in its rendering speed and existing support for web standards and also added support for web standards such as HSLA/RGBA color. A lot of new features were introduced in this release like a new skin made by Jon Hicks, Opera’s new application icon and also increased standards support. The most recent version of the Opera web browser, Opera 10 was released in September 2009.