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- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 04, 2008
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2807 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on September 01, 2009
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 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 9.62 is a recommended security upgrade.
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Opera 9.62 is a recommended security upgrade.
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User reviews of Opera 9.62
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2807 votes
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Version: Opera 9.62
Pros: it opens pages within itself. thats cool.
Cons: I couldn't seem to be able to go back. Couldn't figure out how to go back.
Summary: I did not care for this. I will be deleting and uninstalling this.
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Version: Opera 9.62
"I tried it,took it off,went back to IE & Fox."
Pros: none that I could find.
Cons: crashed alot,didn't like the looks of it,didn't speed anything up for me.
Summary: Maybe it was a bad install,or some other technical problem. At any rate,I scrapped it.Not worth the trouble.
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Version: Opera 9.62
"Opera is all work & no talk until you use it yourself."
Pros: A solid competeitor to other browsers like Google Chrome, IE and even Firefox.
Cons: Havent found any yet.
Summary: I've been using Opera for more than 3 months now and its a pretty good browser with good visuals and I find its speed dial feature really useful.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.62
"The best all-around browser with only 1 flaw."
Pros: Very feature-rich. They invented Tabbed Browsing--a feature we now enjoy on all browsers. It is the fastest browser on a daily basis. Very secure and less-likely to execute malicious scripts. Overall, a GREAT choice.
Cons: It's only downfall is it's not compatible with about 10% of the web pages out there. This is usually due to poor programming on the sites or sites that are specifically writeen for internet explorer.
Summary: I have used Opera as my default browser for about 2 years. I work on computers as a profession. This browser will work on just about ANY computer, including Windows 95 PCs (try that with inet explorer).
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.62
Pros: Good skin!!!I like the appearence!!!and some more......
Cons: I don't find it so much speedy.......that's the only thing i don't like about this browser!!
Summary: OK!! It's a good browser.I have Firefox,chrome,IE8,but in all these i like the appearence of opera the best but the only thing that i would deny is that I don't find it much speedy...as i have a dial-up connection i want my pages to load faster, and... read more >>
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