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[Antony]

Opera Software today released Opera 9.5 (shipping version). Opera 9.5 features a number of new features to speed up the internet browsing, enhance the experience and strengthen security against malware and phishing.

New features include Quick Fine, Opera Link and new browser engine that delivers twice the speed of Opera 9.2, Speed Dial, Mouse Gestures, Zoom, Fit to Width ... etc. The Opera browser itself is fully customisable.



Opera 9.5 is available for Linux, Mac and PC computers and ships in more than 30 languages with additional languages soon available. Opera is free from http://www.opera.com/ .

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

[James]

Thanks for the heads-up. Interesting that they rushed this out ahead of Firefox's release this coming Tuesday. And I see that IE 8 will come out in August. Some interesting things are coming our way!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

[Antony]

According to TUAW.com, Opera 9.5 scores 83 (out of 100) on Acid3 Test.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

[Joost]

Have been test browsing Opera 9.5 for a couple of days on a XP machine now and find it an elegant, powerful and very usable browser. Bookmark management is great, the browser window doesn't hog a great deal of screen real estate and all the major functions are 'within easy reach'. Excellent GUI design too (== I haven't even been temped to try out any alternative themes!)

I am still fighting on a regular basis with MS IE 7 (I am genuinely baffled how >80% of all users still prefer that over alternatives); my current browser of choice still is FF or SeaMonkey, mainly because of the extensions I am using; but if I'd ever get stranded without the latter two, I'd definitely manage to be very happy with this version.

Got the feeling that this browser is the browser equivalent of a Saab 9.5.

UserAgent: Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

[aleksod]

Yup, I'd have to agree. Opera 9.5 - an elegant browsing experience

UserAgent: Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en)

[James]

Well... after a few days of browsing with 9.5, I'm no longer so sure. I've found it a bit slow to render pages. Sometimes I'll be loading a page, haven't a clue to how much of the page has been loaded and then.. DONE.. nothing. Obviously I'll need to change some of the settings but so far, out of the box, I'm not overly impressed. It seems as though this thing was "rushed" out and I wonder if this was done to "beat" Firefox's big day, tomorrow???

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

[Edward]

In Linux, I still can't print footers with Opera. I've given up trying.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080620 SeaMonkey/1.1.10

[James]

I hear your frustration, Edward. I was unable to forward mail. It just sat in my Outbox and that was that. I tried work arounds from suggestions on "another" forum and eventually copied and pasted the email to my T-bird client in order to send them on their way. In my frustration I dumped Opera. Since purchasing our new computers I have not bothered to download and install it. I'm too happy with both Firefox (even IE on occasion) so why bother?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)

[aleksod]

Have you tried comparing outgoing mail settings in Thunderbird and Opera? What email provider do you use? Make sure the mail setup matches their recommended settings. Also, going to http://my.opera.com/community/forums/ may help.

I am no Linux person, but on Windows header and footer option is in File=>Print Options...

UserAgent: Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en)

[James]

Yup! Everything matched. I did go to the Opera forum and there other posters admitted to the same issues. I tried every workaround I could until in frustration after several days I did what I mentioned above. I'm not opposed to Opera by any means. It's an incredible browser. But for me, I'm sticking with FF which to date hasn't presented any issues. Thanks.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

[Denbur]

hi all anyone recommend a browser for a win 98 pent 1 comp that can't even get a FF or any thing?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSNIA; Windows 98; byond_4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[PaulD]

Hello, Michael.
You have posted in the Opera forum: is this because you are considering using Opera?

I don't understand your saying "browser for a win 98 ... that can't even get a FF".
- You "can't even get" it because ... what?

Please be informed that Firefox 2 is supported on Windows 98. See here. It can be downloaded from here.

I have a pre-release FF2 running on Windows 95 on a 48 MB 200 MHz machine. Slow, but functional. You should be able to run FF on your system.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15