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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98
- Date added: March 03, 2009
- Total Downloads: 8,076,532
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Opera 9.62 maintains the program's tradition of striving for the fastest, smallest, and most full-featured browser available. Opera covers the basics with tabbed browsing, mouse-over previews, a customizable search bar, advanced bookmarking tools, and simple integration with e-mail and chat clients. Mouse-gesture support, keyboard shortcuts, and drag-and-drop functionality round out the essentials.
Opera's extras push it to the top of the class. Integrated theme support previews themes from within the interface, and the new version sports a default redo that's an attractive balance between "dark" and "light" themes. Opera's desktop widgets can appear anywhere while Opera is running. The Wand utility combines autofill with saved passwords, and it's hard to ignore the addition of torrent support and real-time fraud protection. The latest version includes reasonable anti-malware protection courtesy Haute Secure.
The expanded features in 9.62 should make any non-believer do a double-take. Opera Link enables Bookmarks, the Personal bar, Speed Dial, and Notes synchronization across all other Opera instances. Quick Find improves the search tool, allowing for full text searching from the address field, the history panel, and opera:historysearch. The Status bar has been restored as a default, the Wand now lets users confirm a successful login before saving credentials, and spatial navigation--similar to Opera Mini and the Wii browser--has been introduced.
The new version is faster, has multiple back-end changes to handle code better, and expands Opera Link synchronization. We think Opera has what it takes to unseat even the biggest-name browsers. You just need to hear it sing.
Publisher's description
From Opera Software :Opera's free and innovative Web browser allows you to experience the web on your terms. Discover what over 20 million people have already experienced by downloading Opera's fast and safe Internet browsers. Features include; Speed Dial: Your favourite sites are just one click away. Search Shortcuts: Type your queries directly into the address bar. Trash Can: Instantly reopen recently closed tabs. Opera Link: Opera Link lets you synchronize data of your choice online, or among different computers and devices. Sync your Speed Dial, Bookmarks, Custom Searches, History and Notes between your work and home computer; take your bookmarks with you on your phone. Feed Preview: Preview a Feed by clicking on the feed icon, and you will see it in clean and efficient multiple-column layout. This makes it easier to see a feed's content before subscribing to it -- or even bookmarking it -- and to view what's new in a page quickly, without distractions. New browser engine: We have made the fastest browser in the world even faster with superior support for Web standards. Opera is quicker to start, faster at loading Web pages and better at running your favorite Web applications. Share our passion for technology. Version 9.64 fixes an issue where specially crafted JPEG images ccould be used to execute arbitrary code. Also fixes an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, and adds version conditional fetching of certificate dependencies from an online repository.
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Version: Opera 9.64
"As the rating says, Mediocre"
Pros: fast, has a nice home page, handles tabbed browsing well, low memory usage
Cons: Problems with many sites including facebook and gmail, too many features jammed into option window
Summary: Opera is a mediocre browser. It does some things well, like handle tabbed browsing and using a small amount of memory. But that's where the good going stops. It's incompatible with many parts of a lot of websites, including gmail. It still does n... read more >>
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Version: Opera 9.64
"nice looking browser and realiable"
Pros: awesome apps e.g. basketball, fast and safe
Cons: not as safe as IE8 since that has smartscreen filter to let u know ur being attacked
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Version: Opera 9.64
Pros: Can reload pages automatically in a period of time. Fast
Cons: Still have some compatibility issues with some websites.
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Version: Opera 9.64
"Fast browser but crashes a lot"
Pros: Fast, renders pages a lot better than it has before, transfer tab to keep up with downloads is great.
Cons: Crashes a lot...almost every time I use it. I keep FireFox on my computer as well, for the times I need to be able to stay on the web longer.
Summary: If they can get the crashes down to a minimum or completely gone, this would be my browser of choice. I have sent in dozens of crash reports for opera, I hope they are working on it.
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Version: Opera 9.64
Pros: Fast, High security, Big, very customizable, many add-on choices, a large selection of services, community forum, strong support, and even employment opportunities!
Cons: Cannot add external toolbars such as Yahoo!, Google, etc.
Summary: #3 in the BIG 5 list of eb browsers! This one is an amazing, fully customizable browser operating on its own source code. Many browsers take on a "look-alike" aspect, emulating browsers like Internet Explorer. Not Opera! Opera is a web experience al... read more >>
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