Showing posts with label Opera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opera. Show all posts

Monday, June 16, 2008

Opera 9.5 Released

Opera has released it's new desktop version.

Opera 9.5 beautifully engineered

New features contain :

- Faster speed : up to 2 times as fast as the already fast 9.2x builds
- Opera Link : Sync your bookmarks between your desktop(s), opera mini and more
- Fraud protection : According to the company, it is "the first publicly-available browser to protect you from malicious software on the Web." Opera's protection is assisted by Haute Secure, Netcraft, and PhishTank.
- A brand new skin

And of course it is still free. Just click the image above to go to the download site.

After more than a year of testing the alpha / beta / RC builds,
I like the new version, it is much faster,
my only gripes with the new version were :
- When I installed it changed something so that I could no longer just type my search query in the address bar (luckily there is a quick fix : tools, preferences, search tab, edit google properties and check the use as default search provider)
- The close buttons are small (not really a problem as I use mouse gestures)
- The add tab button is moved from the left to the right of the tab bar (but that was also a small change)

So after a small test weekend I like the new version and have not encountered any bug.

Happy surfing!

Edit : 9.51 was released and it fixes a good number of problems users were having with 9.50, just click the banner and you will get the new version.

Friday, September 7, 2007

It's finally here. Opera 9.5

It's finally here.

Opera 9.5 Alpha has arrived, and of course i had to install it. 

Just for safety I installed it separate from my 9.23 installation.

 
 When I started it I was pleasantly surprised, it is even faster than 9.23,

And this for an alpha build, this promises for the release build :)

 

Some new items are :

  • Performance
  • Full history search (quite usefull)
  • Improved site compatibility
  • Access for everyone
  • Improved platform integration
  • Preview of bookmark and Speed Dial synchronization (very nice )
  • Magic Windows build number (very important of course ;-) )


For some statistics that it is indeed fast :

http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/ 
 

If you want to play with a new browser , or read about the new features:
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/

 

Beware, it is an alpha build !

I have one problem and it crashes when I want to save a webpage to an mht file,

Otherwise I have no probems found yet, I will post if I find more.