The new browser would presumably be released this coming Tuesday (June 20th) at a formal event Opera is holding in Seattle, WA. There has been lots of speculation about what Opera will do at this event in Seattle, but it seems clear to me that Opera will kick start a grand marketing campaign aimed at increasing their market share of the desktop browser.
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Opera is a nice and pretty fast browser and i'm sure it'll being appearing more and more in the figures of the browser market shares. But i'm sticking with Firefox, i'm just used to it and I love it :)