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Opera is an alternative internet web browser that is very fast, small, easy to use, and complies with all of the web browser standards.
Version 9.60beta1:
This is a beta version of Opera. Please use it only on properly backed up computers.
New and improved featuresOpera LinkCustom search engines and typed history (typed history is only the history you explicitly type or select from the address bar) are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link. Feed PreviewNow you can preview an RSS/Atom feed before subscribing. Opera Mail- Low Bandwidth Mode
- Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible.
- For IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested
- For POP (Post Office Protocol), Opera will not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested
- Follow/Ignore threads and contacts
- Follow and Ignore are new features for users that receive numerous messages. It makes it easier to dismiss unimportant messages and easier to recognise important messages.
- Activate this feature by selecting Follow/Ignore in the email context menu (or click the message subject header), then select either Follow Thread or Ignore Thread. Also, you can click the names in the From or To headers to enable the following or ignoring of contacts.
- Go To Thread
- You can now also use "Go to thread" which means that you can view only the messages from that thread. This is useful for those that employ flat view.
Changes since Opera 9.52User Interface- Opera now remembers the bookmark panel position after restart
- Added a setting opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowBookmarksInAddressfieldAutocompletion to prevent bookmarks from showing in the Address field auto-completion drop-down
- When setting opera:config#TransferWindow|KeepEntriesDays to 0, Opera now removes the transfer history when restarting
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The new Opera Scrollmaker will indicate the previous position of the bottom or top of the page after a scroll action, and needs to be enabled with opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableScrollMarker
- Value 0 means: off
- Value 1 means: show when reaching the bottom or top of the page, and when the last scroll action scrolls less than a full page's amount
- Value 2 means: always show when scrolling
Once enabled, it will indicate the position of the bottom or top of the page before a scroll action is initiated - Sites using HTTP Auth are now saved in typed history
- Opera now stops loading pages with iframes when closing the page or pressing stop
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document property has been removed from iframe objects for compatibility with Gecko, WebKit, and the Acid3 test - The fraud protection dialog now works when using a proxy
Mail, News, Chat- The account settings dialog can now be configured to prevent IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) accounts from downloading attachments until requested by a user
- Fixed open/save of images in Opera Mail when using the image context menu
- Made all top-level access points (except All Messages) selectable
Display and Scripting- Fixed a problem where dynamically added xml-stylesheet processing instructions were ignored
- Added support for the
caller property on functions: http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Objects:Function:caller
Miscellaneous- Added Core version (currently "Presto/2.1.1") to the User Agent header
Full release notes available.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| Opera User Reviews (255 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 11 2008 |
JB4 I also use Firefox and Camino, the Gecko browsers and Opera is pretty close in, loading from the dock, speed, but for loading a page full of photos, Opera has been tested much the fastest. As for appearance there are loads of skins...you can change the intensity and the size of the icons by grades...what more could you want and it loads the new skins five times faster than Firefox...I hate waiting for those to load.... The most given reason though for using Opera is standards...it works through literally all sites and stability...I've never had it crash.... On a personal and subjective level, the dock icon is the most striking ever used on any application...
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| Sep 10 2008 |
CALL ME YO DADDY Besides being snail slow on my relatively new MacBook, the UI is ABSOLUTELY grotesque and horrific in a Mac environment. In light of IE 8, Google Chrome, Safari 4 which is all on the way and Trace Monkey, which is a new Java Script rendering technology in Firefox that is even faster than Google Chrome, I can't see Opera surviving for very long. Opera STILL to this day has not even achieved a 1% market share and with the renewed browser wars in full swing, it likely never will. It's sad because Opera use to boast it's self as being the fastest browser available but that boast has long been silenced. R.I.P. Opera (+_ +)
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 | Sep 11 2008 |
ROBFM You're right CMYD. There's no way anything below 3% market share is either good or worth it. If there is something the Mac community understand is that if something has a lot of users, then it's better ;)
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| Sep 11 2008 |
TERENOVO Definitely. I've always hated Opera for it's slowness, hideous UI and completely un-Mac-like, well, everything. The only positive thing is it's sort of good rendering engine.
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| Aug 21 2008 |
O5220803 Amazingly fast, stable and secure. More Mac-like than ever before. I'm giving it a shot as my default browser. I've used OPERA for the past four years and 9.5.2 is the best to date! BTW, some of OP's features take some getting use to.
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| Aug 21 2008 |
ZX81 9.5.2 : I had to remove this version because my mac started to behave erratically (unable to open folders, to launch apps unless using right-click/open, almost permanent beeps, etc.) MacBook Pro, 2.16 GHZ, 10.4.11
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| Aug 20 2008 |
22DUKE NOT an option for me without 1Password integration.
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| Aug 20 2008 |
HOTFREAKS Its amazing that after all these year, Opera *still* has not figured out the Mac UI. Back to the drawing board, guys.
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| Aug 5 2008 |
SWISHER This is the best browser in many respects. My problem has been accessing secured sites. One site, that uses RealPLayer to stream, set in motion an auto reload of the page that could not be stopped no matter how many times I restarted Opera. I had to shut down the browser and trash "Autosave.win" found in user>library>preferences>opera preferences>sessions>autosave.win. Then all worked OK unless I try to load the site again. Many of my secure access sites that require a log-in do not work so I am forced to use Safari or Firefox. The ability to set Opera to display itself as IE, Forefox or some other is vital to me, otherwise I will be forced to refrain from using the best browser I have found yet.
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| Jul 4 2008 |
IVANOVITCH One other thing: it scrolls pages very badly - this should be fixed!
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| Jul 4 2008 |
IVANOVITCH My only criticism is that this build renders website colours badly, and doesn't handle text forms at all well (even though it claims to adhere to all standards). That, and the top menu bar is as ugly as all get-out. However, these quibbles aside, it's okay for what it offers, but unlikely to replace my other browsers of choice. It might be different for Windows users, of course.
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| Jul 4 2008 |
ZX81 PLEASE, enable 1Password for Opera !!!
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