Yes, that”s right, a new version of the Opera browser is now available for download. If you use Opera to navigate the World Wide Web open a new tab and go to www.opera.com to get the new flashy version.

The Opera Turbo is basically a new feature that enables faster browsing on slower connections.

Opera has been redesigned and version 10 has a complete new interface with a fancy tabbed browsing feature; it shows thumbnails of the open tabs.

If you dig on their website you can find that they are already advertising a new version (10.10) which will include Opera Unite. Opera Unite is a new service that you can use which optimises the way you use the web. You will have Web server functionalities and it increases sharing of information even further.

Read more about this on unite.opera.com.

Opera 10 is the new version of that popular browser used mostly in mobile devices. In this article I will talk about the desktop/PC version. Will it have enough gimmicks to beat the most popular browsers? I”ve made a few tests and used this browser for a few hours and you can now read my thoughts on it. Besides Opera 10.0, I have installed in my laptop Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2, Internet Explorer 8.0.7100.0, Google Chrome 2.0.172.43 and Safari 4.0.530.17. I am running Windows 7 RC 64bit, have 4GB of RAM and have some other applications running in the background while using those browsers. This review is not a thorough one nor it replaces a proper review from one of the big dedicated sites out there. This is simply my opinion on this browser compared with the other ones I have.

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Netscape, which is owned by AOL since 1998, is about to die. AOL is ending the development and support for this browser after the 1st of February. The reason is that Netscape Navigator is being used by a tiny population. Currently, Netscape has around 0.6% of the web population using it, which compared to the 90% they had 15 years ago … is shocking. Microsoft contributed to this with the not-really-fair inclusion of their web browser, Internet Explorer, on their operating system, Microsoft Windows.

AOL will now encourage Netscape users to start using Firefox. Which is good news and makes sense, since Firefox was created by Netscape developers. As a note, please don’t go for Internet Explorer. Although version 7 is a much better version compared to version 6 (you’re not using IE6, are you?), it is still one of the worst browsers out there, which is used by 80% of people.

If you still want it for remembering the good old times (er…) you can still download a copy, but with no kind of support whatsoever after the 1st of February.

Read the full article on the BBC website.