Opera just released an alpha version of the next generation of their browser.

It sports a significant update to their Presto rendering engine, a slew of new features, and an updated integrated web development toolkit dubbed Dragonfly. It is not feature complete at this stage, however it looks very promising thus far.

I’ve been playing with it for 10 minutes, and my first impressions are that it is incredibly fast. The user interface still needs work though. I’m very excited.

(via John Hicks on Twitter)