Bangalore: Opera Software has launched 10th version of its browser today according to the Norwegian company's spokeswoman Falguni Bhuta. Opera claims that Opera 10 has better performance, a turbo mode for slow internet connections, support for a variety of web standards such as web fonts and improvements to the Opera Mail feature.

Opera has been available since many years and was then considered among the top three browsers (along with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox). But then with the launch of Google's Chrome and increase in popularity of Apple's Safari, Opera has now slipped to the number five spot. It has not been able to win more customers from its rivals and has been surviving on loyal customers. Opera is also available on Mobile platform and has been successful in providing a good browser for low speed internet.

Opera has been known for innovative additions. In 2007, it has launched Speed Dial feature, which presents an array of Web site thumbnails when a person opens a new browser tab. Now you can find the same feature used by Chrome and Safari. Opera has to still implement the new Carakan JavaScript engine, which is used to run Web-based applications such as Google Docs. It is expected that this feature will soon be available with Opera 10 update.

Other browsers are also working furiously on better JavaScript performance in order to improve web applications quality.