Opera 9 Beta
I see the that Opera 9 is out in beta. According to the Opera 9 press release, it's got some neat new features — among them, the ability to "customize your search engines" which, I hope, means the ability to add search engines to Opera's search box easily. Right now, that's quite a little feat for people not used to modifying desktop applications.
Another feature that I wish they'd implement: the ability to create folders in the RSS feeds tab. It would be nice for organizing feeds. But, dig this:
Thumbnail preview â€" It's easy to have many tabs open at once in Opera. But exactly which tab had that video you wanted? Hover any tab to see a thumbnail preview.
I'd say that's pretty fancy.
Unfortunately, I'm not trying the Opera 9 beta today; as usual, it's a working weekend, and that means I'm supposed to be working. <grin>
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Adrian says:
Comment posted on 04/24/06 @ 1:16 am
I gave it a bit of a test drive over the weekend. It seems pretty stable from my use of it, the tab thumbnails are mildly cool, can't say I find them exciting, the same with the widgets. Seems most widgets are games so far, the calendar looks quite nice though, better than the current sidebar calendar I have for Opera.
The bit torrent support works quite well. I set it downloading an ISO of ubuntu and it handled it pretty well. Didn't use all my bandwidth/connection so I could still surf.
Everytime you start it, it checks the files you're downloading though, and checking a 2.9GB file means it can take a few minutes before it actually starts downloading it. But it works nicely enough.
Diane Vigil says:
Comment posted on 04/24/06 @ 1:37 am
Thanks for the information, Adrian. I must confess that I hadn't looked into Bit Torrent — hadn't seen the need (and I've never used a file-sharing app) — but 2.9 gigs is a pretty large download even on broadband.
So, it sounds like you can start downloading and close it without its stopping the download?
Daniel Aleksandersen says:
Comment posted on 06/8/06 @ 6:27 am
Have you tried the new Opera 9 beta 2 yet?
Diane Vigil says:
Comment posted on 06/8/06 @ 12:23 pm
No, I haven't. Have you, and if so, what do you think of it?