Opera 9.5 alpha is ready to download

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Opera 9.5 alpha is ready to download

by Brad Linder Sep 4th 2007

As promised, Opera has released a public alpha of Opera 9.5 today. Aside from the juicy updates like full history search and bookmark synchronization, there are a ton of tweaks and bugfixes in the latest version of this web browser.

Here are a few goodies we found hidden in the release notes:

Added an "open with" feature that lets you open pages with other applications including Firefox or Internet Explorer (for pages that still don't render well in Opera)
Content blocking improvements
Added an undo option for Speed Dial
Improved thumbnail rendering quality
Automatic page refreshing can now be overridden
New brushed metal skin on the Mac version
Dropped support for OS X 10.1 (Puma)

Remember, this is alpha software, so you might find a few unreported bugs. But you can also install Opera 9.5 alpha in a separate directory from Opera 9.23 so current Opera users won't lose any of their settings.

Tags: opera 9.5, opera 9.5 alpha, Opera9.5, Opera9.5Alpha

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

vera.1978 said 10:57PM on 9-04-2007

Opera is awesome...way better than Firefox.

zack said 8:15AM on 9-05-2007

hellooooooooo

Fat Cartman said 8:00AM on 9-12-2007

umm, does yahoo mail works now?

bless said 12:18PM on 10-02-2007

thank alot for releasing Opera 9.5 alpha which ganne help us we workers in cyber cafe to download it easily fron net...

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