Opera 9 Available For Download

Mike Howes 20 Jun, 2006 at 3:17pm ET Article published in Tech

Opera Software has released Opera 9, its latest Web browser for PCs. It is available in more than 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux and other platforms.

You can get the browser directly from Opera’s site as a free download.
New features have been added such as a built in anti-phishing toolbar, integrated bittorrenting, which does away with the need to install a torrent client and the usual features such as tabbed browsing.

“For Opera 9, we worked hard to push the limits of what people expect from a Web browser, with increased speed, new Web standards support and innovative features such as widgets and BitTorrent,” said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Even though we shaped this browser for the Web’s future, we have the powerful features people want and need for their surfing today. I truly feel Opera 9 has something for everyone.”

Source: Opera

Comments

20 Jun 2006 ~ 4:25pm Sledgehammer70 I like this! I like it alot! I think I might just dump FF.....
20 Jun 2006 ~ 5:30pm airbornflght I had opera 8, then I decided to try FF; I like FF better.
20 Jun 2006 ~ 5:32pm Sledgehammer70 If you haven't tried 9 try it now! so much better than 8
20 Jun 2006 ~ 6:41pm you gotta try the mouse gestures...they are awesome once you memorize them! BT is nice too...

just wish bookmarked URLs would open in a new tab when i use middle-click like firefox.
20 Jun 2006 ~ 6:51pm airbornflght Yeh, I used a few of the mouse gestures, didnt really care for them, and I like a separate BT client.
20 Jun 2006 ~ 8:27pm NiGHTS I'm in heaven with the mouse gestures, the largest selling point for me. I may actually switch from FF for that reason alone, unless I can find a plugin for firefox that will do the same thing. I've been waiting for something like that for sooooo long.
20 Jun 2006 ~ 11:56pm Thrax

NiGHTS wrote:

I'm in heaven with the mouse gestures, the largest selling point for me. I may actually switch from FF for that reason alone, unless I can find a plugin for firefox that will do the same thing. I've been waiting for something like that for sooooo long.

https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=gesture&type=A&app=firefox
21 Jun 2006 ~ 2:57am TheSmJ Mouse gestures have been available for FF for months now in the form of extensions.
21 Jun 2006 ~ 4:45am Esso Were Firefox and IE6.0 failed to download the Windows Vista 64 bit beta2 iso file, Opera just did it.

IE6.0 (XP pro) only downloaded ~14 KB ...., no wonder why MS needs another download mananger !

FF failed at less then 1% to download (after ~2.1 hours of downloading ).
Don't know which side to blame, Microsoft or Firefox.
21 Jun 2006 ~ 9:59pm PirateNinja I started using Opera 4 a long time ago, and was huge on it during 6. Then I got Firefox, and now I am going back to Opera. I forgot how cool it was.