A Preview of Opera 9.5

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."

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

Richard Stallman, is that you?

Re:Syncing bookmarks with an online service

[olehenning]

Sync your bookmarks with an online service? Sounds rather privacy invasive to me...

You don't have to do it if you don't want to.

Re:Syncing bookmarks with an online service

[Anonymous Coward]

Jee's, do you have to go and destroy this guy's paranoid fantasy?

Re:No Source No Sale

[Hal_Porter]

Yeah but if civilisation falls to the machines and he's sat in nuked out wasteland googling for ways to bring those metal bastards down at least he knows his web browser is working for him and not for the damn robots.

Long time

[Joebert]

I did three tests for each browser and averaged out the time it took for each to completely load our site. Here are the results with the slowest browsers first:
Internet Explorer 7: 18 seconds
Firefox 2: 15 seconds
Opera 9.23: 12 seconds
Firefox 3 Nightly: 11 seconds Opera 9.5 Alpha: 8 seconds

Wow, that seems like a long time for a webpage to load, actually.