Opera 10 Out Now: Is It The Best Browser Ever? (UPDATED!)

Update: I’ve just been informed that OPERA 10 FINAL VERSION IS OUT!!! Here’s the excerpt:

Opera 10.0 Stable Version is out and it has clocked 10 million downloads in one week!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to put your hands on the v10 final release and experience web like never before!

For those running Ubuntu, there’s a good news. You can now download (.deb) Opera from its official site. You don’t have to compile your own Opera 10 anymore if you intend to use it!
Here are your download links:
LINUX 32 bitLINUX 64 bit

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The endless war of the browsers may now have a clear winner: the OPERA 10 BETA 1. It was released a few days ago as an open public beta but the non-developer Opera-fans like myself couldn’t keep their hands off it because it is just too cool to resist. And the reason why I’m writing this blog post is because I believe you should have a shot at the best browsing experience too!

Ladies n Gents, let me give you a few reasons (read list below) to throw Firefox into the dark corners of your computer. We shall not speak of Internet Explorer because it would be a shame to take its name in a post about the best browsers.

An Awesome Firefox / Opera / IE / Chrome Trick You Did Not Know!

I know you must be wondering what on earth am I going to tell you that’ll change your world! But, here’s a good trick that will help you in long run if you are deep into tabbed browsing. Here, try this for yourself:

1. PRESS CONTROL+T (OPENS NEW TAB. Alternatively, open it using mouse)
2. Type in any address. Press go.
3. MIDDLE-CLICK THE MOUSE ON THE NEW TAB.
4. Wallah! The tab is closed and you did not have to scroll all the way to the close button.

Infact, you have learnt two new tricks today, if you are a total newbie. But even a lot of us who are regular at web browsing tend to not know about the second one (the middle mouse trick).

Hope this helps!
Cheers,
ARPIT

[P.S. This was tested on latest versions of Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome, and was found to work. It does not work on Safari for some unknown reason!]

UPDATE: Here’s another trick which might come in handy if you are keyboard savvy: TRY AND PRESS F2 IF YOU ARE USING OPERA… And it’ll open a dialog box for you to quickly type in the website address and take you there when you press ok. (This trick doesn’t work in Firefox).