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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 21, 2008
- Total Downloads: 7,988,119
- Downloads last week: 8,486
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2805 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Opera 9.61 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 9.61 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 9.6 expands Opera Link, allowing you to synchronize your custom search engines and typed history between different versions of Opera 9.6 and Opera Mini. RSS Reader now previews feeds, enabling you to see a feed before subscribing to it. Opera Mail has useful new features including ignoring and following email threads and managing emails faster in low bandwidth mode. Speed has also improved, meaning you can browse faster than ever. Opera 9.61 is a recommended security upgrade.
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Opera 9.61 is a recommended security upgrade.
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User reviews of Opera 9.61
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2805 votes
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Version: Opera 9.61
"Functionally cooperative, a browser expedites work time"
Pros: 1. Tabs,
2. Auto log-in works
3. The choice of returning to the last sessions tabs, helps in conformity in work (no searching for sites used everyday)
4. Speed-dial a great companion for mothly banking & other chores in one place
LOVE it!Cons: When system crashes, a reinstall does not contain personal info only that you have an account no browser info or history. ANNOYING! Opera?s web site has and area for retaining bk marks, but the entry process is tedious.
Summary: Best browser features and performance available today. Mozilla cannot compare, but is a better backup browser than MSN, IE or Chrome (still hinkie).
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.61
"An Underwhelming Web Browser..."
Pros: Speed Dial, tabbed windows.
Cons: Frequent crashes. Changes made are not easily undone. Rather hokey home page.
This is my third try in 4 years to use the Opera as an alternative to Firefox. I remain steadfast in my unfavorable view of this browser.Summary: Firefox 3, Avant and Safari are user friendly, fast and secure web browsers.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.61
Pros: faster then any browser you can think of!!!
Cons: not as much addons as firefox 2 or 3 (i think firefox 3 is wierd)
Summary: fastest browser i have ever used but i would have to say for now firefox 2 is my fav.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.61
Pros: This program has good browsing speed, a nice basic interface, and good security.
Cons: This browser has only basic browsing tools; customization was standard.
Summary: This is a good but basic web browser. I would recommend IE7 or FF3 (and also Google's Chrome.) The speed was good, security was good, and customization standard.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.61
Pros: Faster than firefox and IE; speed dial; ability to add some search engines such as inquisitor not in presets and certain other features which cannot be used in safari
Cons: Not as fast as safari, not as feature friendly as firefox (if I want to do serious playing with the
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