Opera's overhauled browser leaves beta with eye on Android

Opera's browser.

Opera's new and improved Android browser has officially gone gold.

The company announced the news on Tuesday, saying that its browser, which was previously available in the Google Play marketplace as beta software, is now an official launch. Getting it out of beta means that Opera believes most of the software's bugs are gone, and is ready for wide use.

Opera announced the browser overhaul in February at Mobile World Congress. Rather than base the software on its own Presto engine, it decided to scrap that entirely for the open-source WebKit engine used in Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome.

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