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Opera 9.6 released
by Brad Linder Oct 8th 2008
After spending some time in the beta tank, the Opera browser team has released Opera 9.6. The latest version of the Opera web browser adds a few new features, not all of which are related to the web. For instance, Opera has a built in email client. Opera 9.6 has a new low bandwidth mode that prevents attachments from being automatically downloaded if you have an IMAP account. For POP users, just the first 100 lines of a message are available unless you click on the message.
Opera 9.6 also has a new RSS feed preview feature that lets you see the contents of an RSS freed before you subscribe. In fact, the newspaper-style layout of the feed preview is so nifty that you might find yourself bookmarking RSS feeds to read in your web browser instead of the original web pages.
There are also a bunch of bug fixes and stability and performance improvements. Users can also synchronize their custom searches and typed history with Opera Link.
Opera 9.6 also has a new RSS feed preview feature that lets you see the contents of an RSS freed before you subscribe. In fact, the newspaper-style layout of the feed preview is so nifty that you might find yourself bookmarking RSS feeds to read in your web browser instead of the original web pages.
There are also a bunch of bug fixes and stability and performance improvements. Users can also synchronize their custom searches and typed history with Opera Link.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 3:13PM on 10-08-2008
People still use Opera after IE 8, Google Cgrome and Firefox 3.....!!??!?
The only good version of Opera is Opera Mini for Java phones....
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not opera employee said 3:13PM on 10-08-2008
yes.
I do.
rangdo2003 said 3:59PM on 10-08-2008
I don't understand comments like this.
Opera is the browser that pioneered probably the vast majority of the features that people have come to expect from a modern browser, is small, very fast, standards compliant and contrary to popular belief has adblocking built in and extensibility with user scripts.
It's one thing if a browser just isn't for you. Personally I like that Opera does what I want it to do out of the box and I don't need to modify much and for the way *I* use it, it's intuitive. Chrome and Firefox are both great browsers but do things a bit differently than I expect - meaning they don't replace my primary browser. Likewise, I can understand there are people on the other side of the fence.
However bashing something without any solid reasons seems to be something less than constructive without any discernable reason - it contributes nothing useful to the reader.
For instance : I think that IE has made great progress from the abomination that IE6 had become in the developer community ( though it surely helped move things forward many years ago ). However I don't think they've quite gotten far enough in the realms of standards support, security or critical bug-fix responses for me to desire any regular usage of it.
lilmoder said 3:13PM on 10-08-2008
Yes, people still use Opera after IE, Google Chrome and Firefox 3!
I use Opera! :]
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Sean said 3:36PM on 10-08-2008
I couldnt live without opera. Firefox is a hog, especially with the amt of addon's that must be "added on" to even get the same feature set I use every day.
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Henri said 4:37PM on 10-08-2008
Here another Opera fan. About one year ago I started to use Opera next to FireFox (2 at that time) and after a couple of months I switched completely to Opera. Why? Because of the tabs, speed dial, wand, synchronisation and much more. At the moment I use Opera as the number one browser and IE7 as the second one to view pages which are scrambled in Opera: for instance the account page of Visa (for some reasons I can not login using Opera, the buttons are simply not there).
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Hylic said 7:37AM on 10-10-2008
Have you tried masking or identifying opera as another browser? occasionally that does the trick, if you right click on a page and click "Edit site preferences" you can set site specific preferences.
Anurag Shandilya said 8:09AM on 10-09-2008
At the moment I also use Opera as the number one browser and IE7 as the second one only due to the facility of speed dial. It's great. But I do not get Hindi fonts properly, please help me. I get it properly in IE7.
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Geir said 8:28AM on 10-09-2008
Opera 9 is great, and it is my preferred browser. Firefox 3 is awesome too, just in a different way. I use both browsers frequently, and IE and Google Chrome occasionally.
To call Opera standards compliant may be a bit of an exaggeration though, although it is pretty good in that area. By the way, Opera 9.60 (Build 10447) get 85/100 on the Acid3 test. Not quite a Midori score, but not bad (even though it is a failure).
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laero said 6:17PM on 10-19-2008
Not using Opera, but that is just because Opera for some reason (and maybe only for me) does not anti-alias text which makes it look really ugly compared to ff3. And the only other browser that is widely supported on linux is firefox, thus I use it instead. But when Chrome gets ported nicely (crossOver Chromium does not count, it's all messed up, especially pictures) I'll switch to it immediately.
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aleksandarsachs said 8:04AM on 11-06-2008
Happy Opera user here too...Notes tool is a lifesaver !
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