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Opera 12.00 pre-alpha Build 1033 released
It actually was released last Wednesday
It is noticeably faster than previous builds loading pages on my PC with 50 MB broadband, comparing with the latest Chromium 15.0.841.0 (Developer Build 94996 Windows) opening the same pages I honestly cannot tell which is faster.One small extra point with regards to the Core network latency fixes, just to avoid confusion. You will not see any real difference testing against popular benchmarks (which focus on rendering and JavaScript performance); this kind of work is more likely to have an impact on regular "day to day" browsing. However, it can result in pages loading in half the time! You are most likely to see a difference if you have a poor network connection and others may notice improved performance when connecting to a webserver hosted on another continent.
The build may still be a pre alpha but seems very stable the built in mail client is very good there has been a lot of work on it recently.
for more info & to download
Opera Desktop Team - Network latency improvements, Microdata and QRESYNC