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Thursday 12 June 2008, 9:17 AM

Opera 9.50 Released

Posted by J.A. Watson

Opera released version 9.50 of their browser today, and it looks very, very good. I have already written about the beta release of this new version in my blog , but there have been a few notable changes made in the final release. The graphics and cosmetics have been improved, and the tab bar in particular has a new look and feel which I find much nicer.

I have already installed the new release on Ubuntu, XP Professional and Vista Business, and it all went very smoothly. I understand that the "general wisdom", or at least the "popular trend" for those who want to get away from Microsoft Internet Explorer is to go to Firefox, and I use Firefox as well, of course. But I would encourage anyone to take a look at Opera; the Speed Dial feature alone is worth a lot, and the innovative way that Opera handles the address/search bar is wonderful.

Update: I see that Firefox has made a 3.0 RC 3 release . I wonder what that's all about? As I recall, when RC 1 was released, they were saying that they might not even make an RC 2... now they are up to RC 3... hmmm. Anyway, the Firefox 3 "Release Day" has been set for next Tuesday, 17 June, so keep it in mind.

Comments on this post

mattp

yep just trying it out now and looks very nice.
Fxed a few things like the microsoft partner website appearing in green which I always thought was microsoft trying to force me to use IE.
Opera is my favourite Browser as I dont get on with the look of clear-type the FireFox insist on using.

Posted by mattp on Jun 12, 2008 4:00 PM

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