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A Preview of Opera 9.5

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shiny-new-browser dept.

jrowl writes "Opera 9.5 Alpha is scheduled to be released tomorrow, and CyberNet has a review of the browser's new features based on preview code. Some of the most prominent new options include a full history search, bookmark and Speed Dial syncing, and an 'Open with' menu option to pull up a website in another browser that's installed on your PC. 'This is one of those things that I had said Opera needs to work on the most. By this point, most Firefox users have grown accustomed to keeping their bookmarks synchronized with an online service. Now Opera users will have the same pleasure! All you need is a free My Opera account, and you'll be able to privately synchronize your bookmarks, Speed Dial sites, and Personal Bar with their server. You'll then be able to access that data whether you're at work, home, or anywhere! To setup synchronization just select the "Synchronize with My Opera" option from the File Menu.' There's also a video to go along with the text."

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  1. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Opera are a bunch of greedy fucks that won't give away their source code. Opera can go bankrup tfor all I care. It should be the law that everything is open source under the BSD license.

    1. Re:Who cares? by painkillr · · Score: -1, Troll

      i don't know what it is about your smug attitude that makes me wish you would die on the table tomorrow

  2. No Source No Sale by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does this one come with the Source Code?

    Fair enough, I'll stick with Konqueror, then.

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    Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
  3. Please fix bugs by kaiwai · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to turn into some sort of morphed troll come rant but could Opera developers firstly realise that yes, us Solaris x86 people do want a dynamicly compiled version. Also, please for the love of pete, fix up the blogger/gmail support, it is pathetic at the moment.

    Two big glaring problems which keep me from using it on my machine. I've contacted Opera twice through the forums and twice ignored. Is this the 'superior' replacement to Microsoft? If thats the case, I'd sooner have Microsofts 'customer service'.

  4. Opera not OSS by r7 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Interesting that this story would get approved by Slashdot given that Opera is closed source and they don't release a distribution for 64bit Linux.

  5. No ADBlockPlus? No thanks by Lord+REL · · Score: 0, Troll

    as they dont have a system to block ads using an updating block list all the benefits are useless to me