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Opera 9.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-bad-it's-not-open-source dept.

Nurgled writes "After teasing us for months with betas and snapshots, Opera Software have finally released version 9.0 of their web browser. The new version features correct ACID2 rendering, native support for the SVG Basic profile, a built-in BitTorrent client, support for Microsoft's designmode and contenteditable extensions, per-site configuration, Atom support, Web Forms 2.0 support, Canvas support (and some Opera-specific extensions), NTLM authentication, some support of parts of CSS3 and lots more. The full changelog is available." p14nd4 adds "And for you *nix users, it hasn't hit their .deb repository quite yet, but there are regular installers available for the major players, including a fixed Ubuntu installer and an x86 Solaris version."

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  1. Good, by SpokeBot · · Score: 1, Troll

    but still closed-source though.

    1. Re:Good, by ceeam · · Score: 1, Troll

      So fucking what? If a limited set of developers kept in a single company or scattered around the globe - what difference does it make? Have you submitted any patches to Firefox? Didn't think so.

      (Ok, ok - maybe I troll a bit, but seriously? It's a good and free to use browser. They even have FreeBSD binaries... Closed source or not - some appreciation is due methinks... What would _you_ do with the source if it were available?)

  2. BT Client sucks by iamdrscience · · Score: 1, Troll

    I love Opera, but their integrated bit torrent client sucks. It doesn't show transfer rates, you can't limit your upstream, you can't see how many people you're connected too, you can't see if there are any seeds and it doesn't keep track of your share ratio.

    Nice try Opera, but for now I'm sticking with my old BT client.