On the heels of Opera 10.0 Alpha Build 1345, Opera made available for download Opera 10.0 Turbo Alpha Build 1355. This is the first release of the desktop flavor of the browser to come to the table with the turbo-charged browsing technology introduced by the Norway-based company at the Mobile World Congress 2009, on February 12, available to the general public for testing. Opera turbo is a performance optimization and compression technology designed especially to improve end-user experiences when dealing with poor bandwidth. In this regard, users with broadband connections are bound not to notice consistent increases in the speed of Opera, if any.
Opera Turbo is “a server-side optimization and compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections by compressing network traffic. This does not only make you surf faster, but also lowers the cost of browsing when you are on a pay per usage plan,” revealed Roberto Mateu, a product manager at Opera Software.
Opera 10.0 Turbo Alpha Build 1355 is available for download here.