RSSOpera 9.5 Alpha Gets History Search, Speed
By the Betanews Staff | Published September 4, 2007, 2:03 PM
After over a year in development, Opera Software has release the first public Alpha build of Opera 9.5, the next version of its popular alternative Web browser. The main focus of Opera 9.5 seems to be performance and compatibility with sites, and users are already reporting a big speed boost from Opera 9.23.
New features in the browser include the ability to search the browser's full history, restore closed windows, better UI integration on Mac and Linux, support for Mac OS X's VoiceOver technology, new skins and a revamped Opera Mail client. Download Opera 9.5 Alpha 1 from FileForum and tell us what you think.
There was a story going round a while ago that Opera 9.5 was going to be accessible to those using assistive technology. It seems it was an ugly rumour.
As ever, I started this version of Opera, and my screen reader was struck completely dumb. So the message is clear as ever - blind people keep out, dyslexics keep out, those with dexterity problems, don't bother us. There are only a few tens of millions of us in the world, so who cares? Thankfully it's easy to vote with your uninstall button, with good browsers such as Firefox being readily available.
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Too much content / sites Opera still can't display...... while all main competitors can't................................
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|glad to see that Opera is improving every time... finally when u click your scroll the move pointer doesn't remain fixed on the center and as for the speed.. is pretty fast when it comes to launching the program and for pages rendering... the mail client is pretty good if you're not a mail maniac and just want to use the basic features of a mail client... but it still has some flaws... i'm missing the instant spell checker[not a big fan of Aspell] from seamonkey or firefox and would be nice if you could import thunderbird/seamonkey contacts... and would be also great if i could actually see my saved passwords in Wand menu... just in case i forgot one of my passwords.
and Opera lacks a plugin system and a plugins developers community like Firefox/seamonkey has... and when i'll have a plugin that equals Ad-Block Plus in Firefox... then i'll make Opera as my default browser.
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|Actually Opera has a very simple but powerful adblocker. Just go to http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ and import the whole list to Opera's urlfilter.ini. I swear that any ads will appear very rarely, and if so just the right click of your mouse and "block content".
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|That one's overkill and can slow down Opera's load time significantly. Try here:
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock
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|I bought version 6+ and useing it since now that is free :)
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|Would be the browser of my choice if there wasnt Firefox. :)
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|How is it that the perfect browser keeps getting, well, more perfect?
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|Because they care. If only we could say that about a lot of other software out there.
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|Wheeeee!
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|It was forgotten to mention that Opera 9.50 will come in Linux 64-bit versions. It also supports multicores in rendering pages.
Anyway, the browser is very impressive, esp. if one keeps in mind that it is in the early stage of development.
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|What about 64-bit Windows versions? There are a lot more people using 64-bit Windows Vista or XP than 64-bit Linux.
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|I do not know. It was mentioned about it here: http://my.opera.com/desk...ing-kestrel-development
Linux and FreeBSD were mentioned loud and clear. I do not know how to understand what was announced by the Opera desktop team.
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