Opera 9.5 Beta released

Darat

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Opera's launched the beta of their next release of Opera - 9.5 (http://www.opera.com/download/?ver=9.50b) - I've been using the alpha builds over the last month or so and have found them quite stable until the last few builds and so far the beta is proving very stable.

It's good to see the Opera developers concentrating on important stuff again - they really lost the plot for a little while going down the route of "widgets" - what a total waste of effort.

Two new features that I already find invaluable are "Synchronisation" - if you run Opera across different PCs OSs, even mobile devices you can keep all your bookmarks, personal bar preferences and so on synchronised. This has already saved me tons of time (I regularly jump between two different PCs at different desks). And the second is the built-in "search your browsing history in the address bar" (Ah they have a better name for it Full Text History Search) - lets you search from your recent browsing history in the address bar - great for re-finding the link you forgot to bookmark!

All in all a good "point" upgrade.

Now if they would just improve teh spellcheck I'd be really happy.
 
Agree, I like it.

And the widgets were a poor choice to focus on. Especially considering that, as Opera and Firefox both conform to web standards, then greasemonkey scripts also work in both. This is an area of functionality that Opera should focus more on. Folks do like to trick out their browsers, but it's not quite as simple to do in Opera as yet.
 
Is Opera the best browser then?

Only I couldn't help noticing the tags you used on this thread. :D
 
I think the best browser is lynx.


Who needs all those pesky graphics?
 
Hmm, I may have to give 9.5 a go, although to be honest so far I haven't found much that's great (rather than good) about opera on a desktop.

Opera Mobil OTOH is by far the best browser, IE mini is just pants and moztilla minimo won't even run, what waist of time. Unfortunately it looks like Ill be forced to buy Opera Mobil 8.x just before 9 comes out...

As I'm now running opera on two devices (my HTC Touch phone and my Archos 605 wifi mp3/video player)synchronisation of bookmarks etc will actually be be useful to me for once...

And the spell check isn't that bad, if only It would work on the mobile and device versions...
 
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