Opera 9.24 available now, 9.5 beta coming next week

Development keeps marching along on the Opera web browser. Today the Opera team released Opera 9.24, which is basically a security update to Opera 9.24. And next week the team will launch the public beta of Opera 9.5.

Opera 9.24 fixes several vulnerabilities that could leave your computer open to attack. Updates are available for the Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix versions of Opera.

Opera is throwing a party in San Francisco next Thursday for the official launch of Opera 9.5. We took a look at an alpha version of the browser, and we were pretty impressed. It's still not quite a Firefox replacement (for example, some Google web services don't render properly), but Opera 9.5 definitely has some attractive features like the ability to search your complete web history from the URL bar.

If you can't wait 8 more days, there's a new snapshot build available for download today. It has plenty of bug fixes and updates, but there's also a huge list of known issues, so download at your own risk.

Tags: browsertips, opera, opera-9.24, opera-9.5, web-browser