Opera 15 Chromium-based browser officially launched for PC and Mac

While the non-final build of Opera's
new browser for PC and Mac was
simply called "Next," today it's
chosen the more formal title of Opera
15 for its official release. There aren't
any features of note that we hadn't
seen in the desktop preview of the
WebKit-based software (or should we
call it Blink-based? ), but to jog your
memory, it sports a fresh design, a
Discover feature for catching up on
the latest news, and a tweaked Speed
Dial menu for quick access to your
favorite corners of the internet. Also,
the web-clipping Stash feature,
predictive address-come-search bar,
new download manager and "Off-Road
mode" for extra compression on lousy
connections are all included in the
final version. We ran a quick
SunSpider benchmark on the Mac
build of Opera 15, in which it scored
167ms, compared with 171ms in
Chrome.