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- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 18, 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 9.63 is a recommended security and stability upgrade, which also incorporates the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine, adds a thread button in the mail toolbar and shortcuts for follow (Ctrl/Cmd-D), ignore (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-D) and go to thread.
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User reviews of Opera 9.63
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 2807 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.63
Pros: Love It Fast good looking and The Future brower
Cons: Not many sites support it and had trouble Downloading plugins
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.63
Pros: Fast, easy to use and an awesome theme!
Cons: It keeps freezing and I hope it gets fixed in the new version.
Summary: Loved it and can't wait for the freeze bug to be fixed.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.63
Pros: Many built in features, such as Speed Dial, BitTorrent, IRC, E-mail client, Easy-to-use feed reader, and many other features. It's also very speedy.
Cons: Can't think of any cons.
Summary: Very good browser, either as a secondary browser or your main browser. I highly recommend it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.63
Pros: Fires up quickly, relatively lightweight, pages load fast, easy to navigate, files download nicely, tabs are great, speed-dial is awesome, lotta options to tweak, cool buttons/widgets, safe, secure, the greatest of 'em all!!
Cons: Current version, I've experienced a few freezes, an occasional crash. Never happened in previous versions. Hoping it's fixed by the next update. And yes, some pages don't display properly, but the web needs to catch up to Opera, not vice-versa.
Summary: Fix the current (9.63) freeze bug, and this browser would be flawless. It's time to dump the lumpy oatmeal that Internet Explorer is and that Firefox is becoming and get Opera!!!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera 9.63
Pros: Speed, Features, Spped Dial, Searching, Reliability
Cons: Difficult to understand at beginning
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