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- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: June 12, 2008
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- CNET editors' rating: 5.0 stars
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Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Opera 9.50 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 9.50 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 overall 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 aims to product the fastest and most powerful Web browser available and make the most of your time online. The latest release is even faster with superior support for Web standards. Opera 9.5 is quicker to start, faster at loading Web pages and better at running your favorite Web applications. New features include Quick Find, which remembers not only the titles and addresses, but the actual content of the Web pages you visit, and Opera Link, which lets you access your favorite Web sites everywhere you go on all your computers and cell phones.
Version 9.5 introduces new features Quick Find and Opera Link, adds a redesigned Address bar drop-down menu, and includes new storage and indexing formats for Opera Mail, among a bevy of other features, changes, and fixes.
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User reviews of Opera 9.5
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2686 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.5
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.5
Pros: Very fast, nice elegant design, secure.
Opera continues to be the best of the best.
Cons: I've got nothing to hate.
Better than Mozilla Firefox.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.5
Cons: It kept crashing after I opened more than one tab, a waste of time. After it crashed, I would open the browser again and the same thing would happen, this happened four times before I uninstalled it and went back to Firefox.
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4 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.5
"it completely screwed up the old Opera!"
Cons: now this new one won't even connect...error messages galore! the old one i had is gone: all preferences vanished, widgets, skins, etc...i have laptop xp; firefox and browzar both are still working fine.
this opera definitely was not ready...really sux!
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6 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.5
Pros: I checked out if i could read my yahoo mail with this version but to no avail.Didn't bother me really so i checked out another website.The page froze entirely couldn't get anything to work at all.Then i restarted it and now it won't open at all!.Im using vista home premium and mozilla, flock, and ie7 are all running fine.I guess its not as ready as opera purports it to be.
Cons: See above.
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