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Opera 9.5 coming soon
The upgrade will include:
- The rendering engine has been updated with improved CSS3 support, and a new javascript engine.
- The user interface will be tweaked to provide easier access to the features users reported they used the most.
- Improved keyboard navigation
- Screen reader support
- New skins to match OS X and Linux environments
- Speedier rendering
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsDanboJun 22nd 2007 4:35PM
There's only a couple of things holding me back from using Opera full time. One is the way some pages still don't render correctly (like my credit union's page). Maybe this update will help this. Another is rich text editing. Thats always useful for blogging, Gmail, etc...
DavidJul 7th 2007 5:18PM
I gave Opera a shot a few months ago,but in my experience it wasn't just a FEW pages that wouldn't render correctly,it was MANY.Far too many,actually,to be useful to me.I like a lot of things about it,it IS very fast and takes up a lot less real estate,is very customizable,etc.,but I couldn't get around the fact that a lot of sites simply don't work with it.I hope the new version fixes some of the compatability issues...I'll gladly try it again.
DustinJun 22nd 2007 5:59PM
Danbo,
Most of those kind of issues come from non standard code. Read: Only works in IE. Email your credit union, most other places like gmail, and others should catch up faster with Opera.
Opera for ever!
PknelJun 23rd 2007 2:36PM
I've been using Opera since about 9.0 and I'm completely satisfied with it. I've had problems with some pages not rendering properly but all the pages I want to use work perfectly. The only nuisance I've had with Opera is that it doesn't work with some of Google's online tools but I can use firefox for those.
jshurpinJun 22nd 2007 5:39PM
Bruce Arnold:
Have you tried setting it to prompt you for a password before it downloads your mail? You can set it for once per a session, 30 minutes etc.
CalvinJun 22nd 2007 7:52PM
If Opera fixes a lot of bugs, and stuff and i find it better and faster than FF then i'll consider using them both. I have no objection with other browsers as long as we all fight against IE...FF&Opera FTW!
pittmankenJun 22nd 2007 8:12PM
I've been using Opera for well over a year now and I've found it all to work quite well on most every page I go to.
When I do encounter a problem, I usually change the options around or add a widget and it's fixed or edited so the problem isn't that bad.
Luckily it has a great community for itself so any questions are quickly answered or someone helps make a widget for it.
For Gmail, I use the Gmail checker widget, it does the job.
Of course I mainly use Opera over Firefox, IE, and the two or three others is because of the shortcuts and mouse/wand movements.
MysteriusJun 23rd 2007 12:39AM
@Dustin: Firefox manages to find ways to get most sites right, though...
DemonJun 24th 2007 9:00AM
Opera for Windows works for all google online tools. Opera for Linux is somewhat buggy.
The problem of Opera not displaying some pages correctly is not in the Opera, but in the web pages that does not follow up standard code (html, xhtml, css, javascript...)
DemonJun 24th 2007 9:00AM
Oh, and if go here:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/kestrel-is-coming
you can read this:
"Apart from being the best standard compliant browser, Opera 9.5 will also display even more webpages with bad coding."
KennyJul 9th 2007 8:47PM
I'm always surprised when people say that they run into "a lot" of pages that don't display correctly in Opera. This WAS a problem back when IE5/6 had a monopoly on the browser market and designers were obliged to jump through the all the Microsoft hoops.
But these days standards compliance has managed to impose itself enough so that most web designers will assure a minimum of cross-browser compatability, and that's all that Opera and the other browsers needed to insure correct display.
I can't remember the last time I saw a page that didn't render correctly in Opera. It happens, yes, but it's no more common in Opera than in any other browser. All browsers have occasional rendering issues with some pages and this is not the fault of the browser, be it IE, Fx, Opera, Safari or whoever, but the webpage's designer, who thinks that the world only uses his or her prefered browser.
Anyhoo, I switched over ot Opera about 2 years ago and have never looked back. I appreciate its speed of course, but especially the incredible things that you can do to customize the interface. My Opera looks and behaves exactly as I want it to. Furthermore, if I stay with Opera it's because I find the others more frustrating to use. That of course is a personal thing and I say to each his own. But if you haven't tried Opera recently, you don't know what you're missing. And especially don't be misguided by out-of-date information about Opera. Here's the truth about today's Opera:
The complete version of Opera is free.
The complet version of Opera is Ad-free.
Opera's rendering engine is as good if not better than any out there.
Opera is famous for it's speed, security, slim profile and reduced memory usage.
9.5 should be great, but why not give it a try today?
I might sound like an Opera salesman but I'm not. I'm just one heck of a satisfied Opera user!
Southern CrossJul 23rd 2007 8:18AM
Opera 9.22 Final Build 8801 is here already if some of you missed it. Opera 9.5 Kestrel will be great....as great as the Simpsons movie itself. =D
I'm not here to judge any browsers. I'm just here to support Opera all the way. (I'm a fan..not a worker...allthough I would like to work for Opera.) Opera is simple, easy to use, fast, reliable, and safe. For more ways to discover the potential of Opera. Visit Opera's community.
www.myopera.com