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Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the new-shiny-toys dept.

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."

2 of 385 comments (clear)

  1. But the question is ... by sabit666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... will it clean my bathroom?

  2. Funny! by Tezkah · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I submitted this story (with download links in it) and more information about the widgets, but it got rejected (Monday February 06, @11:46PM, and again Tuesday February 07, @01:34PM). I wonder why this one got accepted, I was beginning to think that because it didn't mention Firefox or Google it was never going to get published. PR1 of Opera 9.0 was rejected in a similar fashion when that was released.

    Here was the text, with bonus download links!

    Opera Software has released the second preview edition of their next generation browser, codenamed Merlin. Some of the highlights include Widgets (including ones that let you read the latest Slashdot stories, or the lastest Bash.org quotes, calculator, etc), integrated Bittorrent, thumbnail preview for tabs, and the ability to "Block Content", which lets you remove items from a website. Download for Windows, Mac, and Unix.