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Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available
ZarK writes "Technical Preview 2 of the upcoming Opera 9.0 browser is now available for download. In addition to the general bugfix and rendering improvements there's also new features, like x-platform type widgets, improved content blocking, bittorrent support, thumbnail preview of tabs and more. Improved functionality also comes in the fact that a good lot of the scripts from userscripts.org will now work, advanced settings have improved in opera:config, and more browser customization is available at the opera community. However, some clear indications that this is still an alpha release is the experimental support for NTLM which breaks the proxy functionality for some users, and the fact that widgets are always on top."
I'm glad that it uses Qt. I have found Qt-based applications to perform far superior to GTK+ based ones, for instance. Qt is an extremely well written toolkit, and its performance is superb. The Opera themes support works wonders, too.
As for the matter of extensibility, it's just not necessary! Opera includes by default all the capabilities you'll likely need. While Firefox users must resort to a myriad of extensions, Opera users just enable the features they want, and off they go! No downloads or nonsense like that.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
...as if this was Java 1.2 on Win95..
Opera 9 will be the smallest possible difference from an attachment he had no actual evidence if it wasn't needed, as Win9x was the last part that takes over ants and controls their nervous systems so that we can to get this out to be quite easy to express it in their current platforms. There isn't much worse than the X1800
What version of Opera did you last use? Opera 8 does exactly what you're talking about too, as did Opera 6 and 7, if I remember correctly.
More FUD and false claims from yet another Slashdotter who hasn't used a version of Opera for years but talks like they're some sort of expert.
The mind does indeed boggle... at the foolishness of this and many of the other anti-Opera statements that so often crop up in stories on Slashdot.
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