Opera has launched a
release candidate of Opera 9.5, the latest version of the company's web browser. Opera 9.5 has been in beta for several months, but the release candidate is a bit more stable, sports a few new features, and more importantly, a bunch of bug fixes. Here are a few of the highlights:
- Features a previously mentioned new skin
- Smoother upgrade from Opera 9.2 to 9.5
- "Download message bodies" enabled on all POP accounts
- Stability fixes
- Improvements to the Mac native skin and fixed support for Mac OS X 10.2
Unless major issues with Opera 9.5 RC are found, this version could eventually be marked a stable release. If you haven't tried Opera in a while, it's worth taking for a spin. While there are still a handful of sites and web services that don't render properly in Opera, (Google, we're looking at you), overall the browser is incredibly fast and full featured.
Tags: freeware, opera, opera-9.5, opera-9.5-rc, release-candidate, web-browser
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Subscribe to commentsMarkyJun 10th 2008 1:47PM
I've never had any Google issues with Opera on the Mac or Windows and its the only browser I tend to use day to day. What issues are you thinking of?
Brad LinderJun 10th 2008 1:48PM
Some features in Google Docs and other Google web apps aren't officially supported. Try opening a spreadsheet in Google Docs and you'll get the HTML view.
SArahJun 10th 2008 2:08PM
How does the torrent thing work with Opera?
RocketboyJun 10th 2008 2:57PM
It's rather feature-less, but if you're not interested in running a stand alone torrent client, or you're not getting too deep in to seeding and whatnot, it'll work just fine.
SkapigJun 10th 2008 5:23PM
I'm definitely looking forward to the final release. Not sure how I feel about the new skin, but it's easy enough to change (something Opera should probably emphasize more). You can also customize the layout to suit your taste. Nearly every widget on the screen can be moved via drag-and-drop action. It's all very quick.
garyJun 10th 2008 3:59PM
Just wanted to mention they got alot better with google support recently reader now works fine as does gmail albeit a little laggy but this incompatability seems more like a google proble opera is forced to fix and google doesnt seem to care about helping them get it right
QuikboyJun 11th 2008 8:06AM
Is it me, or does it kind of look like IE7 with a skin? I see that Opera has dropped some clunkiness in the UI, and streamlined it a bit more like IE7. And the buttons are almost in the same place, except for some.
Neat. I love Opera.
website designJun 11th 2008 8:06AM
I have IE 7, FF 3.0 RC and Opera on my PC. 99% of the time i use Opera.
sarahJun 11th 2008 10:01PM
Ok, Opera is officially MUCH better than firefox. I love it.