Monday, June 16, 2008

Opera 9.50 - Full Featured Internet Browser

Opera 9.50 (Windows, Freeware, 6.7MB) [download via FileHippo] is a full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

  • a recommended security and stability upgrade
  • introduces new storage and indexing formats for Opera Mail (including feeds).
  • Introduced Opera Link.
  • Added Quick Find, an improved full text history search tool.
  • redesigned Address bar drop-down is displayed when entering text in the Address bar
  • Re-enabled the Status bar by default and copied some UI elements from the View bar to Status bar; View bar is now disabled by default.
  • Added alternative tab-closing behaviors. The preferences now include the following options when closing a tab
  • "Open with" functionality added to web page context menu and Transfer panel/page.
  • Content blocking improvements
  • Added ability to save only the active window as a session (File > Sessions > Save This Session > Only save active window).
  • Disabled dragging links/favicons to arbitrary toolbars (exceptions: Personal bar and opera: buttons); hold Shift or open the Tools > Appearances dialog to enable dragging.
  • Wand feature will no longer block form submits, making it possible to see if login was successful before storing your login credentials.
  • Introduced a new security notification scheme in the address field
  • New spatial navigation highlighting introduced, similar to the one used in Opera Mini 4 and the Wii browser.
  • Added spatial navigation for client side image maps, Xlink references in SVG documents and elements with click event handlers that simulate links/buttons.
  • And more new customizations.

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