opera 9.5 alpha is here !

[neostyle]

http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/alfa/alfa.dml

[Diaboli]

AMAGAD

not big into opera, but wasnt this the kestrel or whatever that was supposed to make opera load pages properly?

[Berserk87]

im gonna try this out, the main things that are keeping me away from opera is the way it loads the pages, the stupid sidebar, and the torrert integration.

edit : i like it more then the last time i tried it out, dosnt seem to load any faster then firefox to me. and some text mouseovers arnt working.

but its an alpha...

Edited September 4, 2007 by Berserk87

[neostyle]

i'm running the 64 bit build here on a linuxmachine and its really a lot faster than opera 9.23 and firefox .

it's amazing ..... :woot:

[x9248]

Seriously... I've always used Firefox for it's speed but this Opera build is amazing speedwise.

[red.]

Downloaded and upgraded my old version. The smooth scrolling wasn't really working properly and some of my custom menu entries are blank. But other than that it seems really good and a bit quicker.

[Lee]

Sweet, can't wait to try this. Their preview page is promising.

[cork1958]

Network Timeout

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But will keep trying!! :)

[Hankyone]

any way it can keep my settings?

[x-byte]

any way it can keep my settings?

By doing it manually... opera6.adr = bookmarks etc. Look in the profiles catalog in document & settings - > username - > application data - > opera

It's alpha so it's not recomonded to install it over your previous installation.

[Shasoosh]

any one managed to get ospell to work?

* i don't feel any speed increase

[GreenMartian]

Running on a 256k RAM machine, this is a godsend. Firefox would crawl to death with more than 20 tabs open. Opera somehow manages to handle them gracefully. And I can actually FEEL the difference in 9.50 compared to 9.2.

On better machines, the differences might not be as noticeable.

[Steve Gosselin]

Nice alpha build, no problem for me with this build. :)

[i50000]

I am using Opera 9.5 Alpha now... :)

[temple_treefrog]

Is there a Mac release? I've tried to access http://www.opera.com/alfa.dml but it just displays a blank page. Does someone have a direct link to the DMG file? :)

[kev64]

Changelog for Opera 9.50 Alpha 1 for Windows

:o

Kestrel does not currently run on Windows 95B

Does anyone still use that. :huh:

[temple_treefrog]

Changelog for Opera 9.50 Alpha 1 for Windows

:o

Does anyone still use that. :huh:

Windows 95B? That was before USB came out. Woah :o

Thanks for sharing the URL, I found the Mac release: http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/m950a1.html :)

[Popcorned1]

Here's a Fixed Link

[Dogan]

Does anyone know how to remove the Opera icon from the systray?

(I dont use Opera Mail)

[External HDD Veteran]

Using it here too. I miss Firefox's extension support though. :(

[Quillz]

Nice alpha build, no problem for me with this build. :)

Same here, it works pretty well for me.?

Not to mention it finally works with Bank of America...

[Veedems Veteran]

It's blazing fast, for sure, but there are some issues for me still:

1. The "windows standard" skin looks worse than ever in Vista and the default skin uses too many non standard graphics for my taste.

2. Still no inline spell check?

[Steve Gosselin]

Nice alpha build but…

Really disappointed with many features are removed in this build (Kestrel branch).

- View bar

- Full shell context menu in transfers tab

- No more size in bytes and the content-type in the download dialog (lacks information)

- Missing tab shortcuts

+

- No improvements to RSS reader

- Smooth scrooling (I don’t like it in this build only)

[halcyoncmdr]

Yeah, same problems as Darken here. I really use the view bar. I have ithidden with a button to activate it when I need. I know I can adjust it to a different bar, but what was the purpose of removing that bar? I say get rid of the start bar first personally :p

It is alpha though, so I am confident most of that stuff will be addressed :)

[nXqd]

View bar ?? is it Start Bar in Appearance ?

I really love this alpha release :

Firstly: it displays Vietnamese smoothly ^^!

2- I like Synchronizing ( Think about make a step back with browser's bookmark ( no more del.icio.us ) )

3- Love search history through URL bar ( Which I wish in Opera forum ) . I use AutoComplete in Firefox and make a request in Opera forum. And they make it true. Thanks :)

nXqd