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."

Can't wait

[Mark Gillespie]

Been eagerly awaiting Kestrel for months now. I already think Opera is miles ahead of any other browser around, these latest changes put it further ahead.

I tried Firefox for a while, but it was extremenly frustrating, security vunrabilities what seemed like every few days, and more bloat and memory useage that I wanted.

I tried Opera, and after an initial learning period, came to love it. The fact I can use Opera on my destkop, my mobile, my PS3, my Wii is a bonus. The fact I will soon be able to have synced bookmarks between all of these devices is awesome.

Synchronize both Opera and Firefox

[Fëanáro]

What i would like to see is a way to synchronize both Opera and Firefox Bookmarks with each other seamlessly.

All solutions I have seen so far seemed to result in either overwritten or duplicated bookmarks.
Synchronizing passwords would be nice too.

This forced me to choose one browser for almost all my surfing, which ended up being opera, but I figure others may choose differently, so this would benefit Opera too.

Re:Firefox bookmark sync???

[Anonymous Coward]

"From this point of view, I think Opera has one up on Firefox by including it in the default installation (unless you don't believe in adding features to a browser that not everyone will use, of course)." - by MMC Monster (602931) on Monday September 03, @09:52AM (#20451347)

Totally, 110% agreed... Opera truly is, "the superior warrior", as far as webbrowsers go, by ALL means!

(& the best part is, Opera has ALL of the features a body can need, WITHOUT using addons (though it has that via Opera widgets), & is LIGHTER ON MEMORY than FireFox &/or IE typically!)

You can check memory residency yourselves by loading FF, & Opera (& IE for Windows users) & test memory size occupancy via taskmgr.exe (or similar tools like Process Explorer) yourselves & see what I mean...

Opera's also faster than other browsers (best overall test I know of for that is here):

BROWSER SPEED COMPARISONS ON MANY TASKS & MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEM PLATFORMS:

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html [howtocreate.co.uk]

Opera also passed the "ACID2" test, for standards compliance... & iirc, before ANY other did... but, don't quote me on THAT account (before any other browser, because it may NOT have done it first, but the point is, that it did... be nice to know if it WAS first to do so, though, so thanks for ANY "FYI" on that account):

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/12/1416222.shtml [slashdot.org]

And, Opera had features other browsers (major 3) copied from it:

FIREFOX MYTHS:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyt [comcast.net] hs.html [comcast.net]

(AND, yes folks: Opera had tabbed browsing before IE, or FireFox/Mozilla AND YES, it can be extended with addons, if you look up "Opera Widgets")...

PLUS, Opera 9.23.8808 final build IS FREE + FULLY FEATURE LADEN, more than any other browser imo, without addons thrown in (as is, outta the box/stock oem model)

APK

P.S.=> Opera also shows LESS security vulnerabilities than the other 2 of the "big 3" & their most current builds/models/versions:

Opera security advisories @ SECUNIA (0% unpatched):

http://secunia.com/product/10615/?task=advisories [secunia.com]

FireFox security advisories @ SECUNIA (43% unpatched):

http://secunia.com/product/12434/ [secunia.com]

IE 7 security advisories @ SECUNIA (56% unpatched):

http://secunia.com/product/12366/ [secunia.com]

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Re:New Opera, just as incompatible.

[toriver]

When people then are asked to identify the "so many web pages" they invariably come up with some shitty Active/X reliant application. And no, Opera will not support that.

However: If I see a site that does not work in Opera and an equivalent site that does, I conclude the author of the first site has a problem - not Opera. Saying that Opera should have even more error correction than today is like the doctor in the classic joke:

- Doctor, it hurst when I do this!
- Then don't do it!

HTML was designed to present information in a way the USER preferred. Your use of "properly" means the web page designer has some right to overrule the user's preferences. Which seems to be the way things are headed, tragically...