After the Betas, Opera released the Release Candidate of Opera 10 and also made a point that the final version would be out on September 1st.I have been playing with different browsers like Mozilla,Chrome and IE8.I used to be a Opera fan previously but as time changed i shifted to the newer ones.My mozilla keeps growing in memory consumption even though i am using the latest version.Well this gives me a oppurtunity to try out Opera RC too.Opera is believed to boost performance with Turbo mode for slow connections,support for a variety of Web standards and improvements to the Opera Mail feature.

According to the Desktop Team this version should be considered a stable release and only selected fixes will be added if absolutely necessary. Here is what Opera’s vice president of desktop products had to say: “Now we are very close to releasing the best browser in Opera’s long history. We hope everyone who has helped us test our browser thus far will put the release candidate through its paces.”

Features:

Visual Tabs
Tabs can be made bigger and the glossy look.

Speed dial
Speed dial can be customized with background changing for a number of sites.

Opera Turbo
Boosts Performance and gives kinda more speed on slow connections. Its got 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test too.Significantly improved performance,particularly on CSS/HTML rendering.

Automatic updates
Updates are automatic and no interference of user is required.

Crash logging
When you encounter a crash logs are created to debug.

Inline spelling checker
Spell checker for correcting your typos.

New default theme with a new bigger icon.

Comes with a new theme by default.

According to TechCrunch, Opera claims the browsers will be 40% faster than Opera 9.6 (Presto rendering engine) which was the last major release. More updates will come soon.Post comments what you like about Opera.Love to hear.
Download the new Opera release candidate here