Opera unveiled the preview its next browser release, 10.6 - featuring support for geolocation and royalty-free WebM video and HTML5 offline web apps.

The app is supposed to be the next major milestone for Linux and BSD users, since Opera is skipping an official 10.5 release for those platforms. As the company assures the new version of the JavaScript engine is up to 75% per cent faster

On older hardware it may not matter so much as the overall responsiveness and browser memory footprint. Working on constrained (translation: decrepit) hardware recently it was noticeable how much faster Google's Chrome browser was overall.

As it’s known, Opera left the Mac and Linux versions lagging a little, splitting the release schedule of the various platform releases for the first time earlier this year, as it rushed out a Windows version of 10.5 for the Windows "browser ballot" for which it had lobbied