Opera started out as a research project in Norway's largest telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products.

Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. Opera, first of all, is client World Wide Web, that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language (language of a marking of hypertext HTML).
Low requirements to resources of system. Opera will work even on 386 computer about 6 MB of operative memory. MDI the interface. You can open without special expenses of memory any quantity of windows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.

Welcome to the Opera Browser 9.5 alpha release - codenamed Kestrel. For your everyday browsing, please continue to use 9.23, the latest version of Opera's free and award-winning browser. This release is all about you: we want to hear what you think about it, what we did right and what we didn't and how we can make it even better for our beta and final releases.

• The world's fastest...now even faster. Even though it's hard to imagine, we made Opera faster.
Following the release of Opera 9 last year, we re-wrote Opera's rendering engine for the coming Opera 9.5 release. As a result, Opera 9.5 contains more than a year's worth of speed, standards and performance improvements. Some enhancements include:

Some enhancements include:
* Faster and less-memory intensive ECMAscript engine
* A greatly improved layout algorithm
* The font-rendering speed is improved significantly, along with the tiling of bitmaps
* More responsive user interface

Internal benchmarks show up to 50 percent increase in speed compared to the previous core version in Opera 8. But, performance is more than just showing Web pages faster. Performance is about making your browsing experience more enjoyable and productive. In the past, we introduced much-loved and powerful features like Tabbed browsing, Mouse gestures, Fast Forward and Rewind, Speed Dial all designed to make you get more out of your time browsing the web. With Kestrel we add another powerful feature to this family:

• Synchronize: The preview
Log in just once. Then access your stuff anywhere, anytime.

A new Internet revolution is under way and millions of people are now surfing their favorite Web sites every day. But they're not just browsing on their computers. Instead, they're browsing from practically any device mobile phones, TVs, game consoles, PDAs. In fact, Internet users today tend to browse from various devices throughout the day.

This alpha version of Kestrel contains a sneak preview with support for bookmarks, Speed Dial and personal bar synchronization between desktop versions of Opera. To check it out, just click File - Synchronize with My Opera and follow the instructions. Get your stuff anywhere!

• Full History Search
Have you ever read something interesting, but then later struggled to find your way back to that same small portion of a Web page? Now you can say goodbye to that problem. With Opera 9.5, we introduce full history search - search the complete Web pages you visited, but without requiring you to bookmark them.
Unlike previous and other browser history searches which only look at the URLs of the pages you have visited full history search searches the actual content of the Web pages you have visited. When typing a keyword, Opera 9.5 will automatically search the text of Web pages in your history.
Moreover, we have directly integrated Full History Search into the URL field of the Opera 9.5 browser, making it extremely easy and quick to find what you're looking for.

• Status bar with Zoom and Image control
Opera's excellent zoom function and the bandwidth saving control of images are now made easily available on the Status bar. Tip: Add your own buttons like the developer console to the Status bar.

• Restore closed windows and changes in Speed Dial
Kestrel has an improved version of the much loved trash-can feature by adding support for opening closed windows, not only the closed tabs. You can also use the undo function now for Speed Dial.

• Improved BitTorrent™ performance
We added support for BitTorrent Peer Exchange to allow you to connect to more download hosts and improve your download speeds.

• Platform integration
We worked to make Kestrel feel even more integrated with your platform. Mac users can expect a nice new visual look and feel, while Opera for Linux will add a QT4 build, so you can easily adjust your skin to match the desktop. 64-bit Linux/FreeBSD packages will also be available.

• VoiceOver support
Kestrel adds support for Apple's screen reader "VoiceOver" found in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This allows visually impaired Opera users to more easily use all of the features in the browser. For more details, please see: www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover

• Skin
Our skins in Opera 9.5 feature improved conformance to Apple Human Interface Guidelines. We have also added a new native skin with a brushed metal appearance, for those of you in to that sort of look.

• Mail improvements
Kestrel features great stability and performance to Opera's integrated email client, M2. We've added a new mail backend and new IMAP support. M2 is also much faster than in previous versions of Opera.
Note to existing M2 users: Please be aware that you will need to install this version on top of your existing Opera version to use this version for mail. Opera will then re-index all your email, something which can take several minutes if you have thousands of emails.

All that, and this is just the alpha. Even more amazing stuff will arrive shortly. Thanks for taking the time to evaluate.

NOTE: Opera 9.5 alpha will by default install separately from your previous version of Opera. If you choose to install it on top of your previous installation, please make sure you have proper back-up of Opera and M2.

Homepage - http://www.opera.com

Size: 6.27 MB

This post has been edited by super macgyver: Jun 13 2008, 10:21 AM

thank you...now opera has updated

the version is still 9.1 leh.i dun see any opera 9.20 beta also.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
and looks for windows build 8713
google is ur friend

This one consumes too much memory... it can even reach 100MB on my pc.. I hope the next release will fix this issue

Edit: k --> MB, lol

This post has been edited by Ee_: Sep 18 2007, 11:42 AM

100k or mb?


This post has been edited by super macgyver: May 19 2007, 02:45 AM

Changes in Opera 9.21 Build 8776:
- Setting font style in the UI now works again
- Larger search field in speed dial, looked a bit chunky on smaller resolutions
- Added Yahoo Answers to built in search
- A number of crashes fixed and memory leaks plugged
- Proxy PAC files now read from system on Windows and Mac
- Windows media player 11 NP version now works without crashing.


This post has been edited by super macgyver: Jul 9 2007, 12:44 AM

Changes in Opera 9.22 Build 8796:
* A lot of improvements to Bittorrent. Downloading large files should now work a lot better.
* Bolding of fonts in toolbars and dialogs should now work
* The Silverlight plugin should now work

i think are tweak version firefox a bit faster than this

Hopefully Kestrel build will be out in a week

And I think Opera 8 is faster than any fox set on fire.

yup, now i had using the latest opera, so fast la...

Was using Opera about few years back (3~5 years back) and the performance is not as good at Firefox, but now I not really so sure because I didn't try out Opera yet..

Any reviews?

if u r using a celeron 1.2ghz laptop with 256mb ram like me,
i bet u cant use firefox2 as it too sluggish compare to opera, even with optimized build.

not bad ah opera quite fast and light

now i'm using both of them

What's the pros and cons for each of them?

both of them are good la... but from what i see the firefox are bit fast than opera

Oo.. never tried new opera, Maybe I should try it..

opera got all the nice feature: tabs browsing, speed dial, nice built-in resume dl manager, bt capable, low ram usage.

Looks like it's almost same with Firefox.. will try it someday.. still satisfied with Firefox